A/N: So here is the next one, sorry for the wait - and the short chapter. I am halfway through the next chapter, though, which is much longer.

Please enjoy (however short this may be), and please review. I'd love to know what you think of these little drabbles.


2. Innocent – Taylor Swift

Sweeney Todd was not an innocent.

His last scrap of innocence had disappeared the minute he pulled the trigger that was responsible for his first murder. The bullet has driven into the man's chest, ripping through muscle and bone, and suddenly Sweeney's heart had turned to stone, his mind was corrupted and damaged beyond repair. The days of Benjamin Barker had ended – that man was dead to the eyes of the world. Botany Bay had changed that man forever, and in return had created a man so numb to the horrors of the world that he wouldn't so much bat an eye during the act of murder.

So unlike the naivety of Benjamin Barker, who thought the world wasn't such a bad place; that there are never truly bad people - just good people who took the wrong path in life. Sweeney sneers back in memory of the foolish man in disgust. As if. Maybe people are innocent once – a new born baby, for instance, could never know the difference between right and wrong, but given a few years it is just as prone to evil as any other human being.

Benjamin was an innocent; like the fresh blanket of snow that covers a field on a misty winter's morning - untouched and unmarred by human hands and feet, yet so vulnerable that a mere touch can easily destroy that crystal clear perfection. Because underneath lies the cracking, rocky ground, the part that is hidden only to be revealed by the cruel hands of the world - ripping out dirt and rock and all life's imperfections, eventually staining and maiming white with black.

And now Sweeney stands, crimson blood staining his white skin, and he realises he is all that Benjamin Barker wasn't. He is Benjamin Barker's imperfection - a cruel, cracked version of the man that used to be.

He is the dirt that maimed the perfect snow.