I'm sooo sorry this took me so long!
I just have too many ideas that I can't fit together...
It's all a bit serious...
Sweeney Todd opened his eyes. Was it morning already? He felt something rather warm and small press against his chest. He looked down at his chest and saw his wife's head there.
He sighed. How was he going to get up without waking her?! He slowly moved his hands to put them on the side of her face, wanting to carefully lift it off his chest... As soon as his hands touched her cheeks, he noticed her skin was warm... Warmer than usual...
Sweeney couldn't believe it, she was warmer than usual... The woman had really gotten herself sick! He had warned her... That's what happens when you're out in the rain for hours!
Nellie opened her eyes. She had felt something against her face... It had been her husband's hands... She looked up at him.
Apparently, she had shifted in her sleep again and once again her head was located on his chest. She sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
The next thing she knew, her husband's hand was touching her forehead. She blinked.
''Love, what are you doing?'' she yawned.
''You're warm...'' ''You're sick, Eleanor!'' he said annoyed.
''No, I'm not... I'm fine...'' she interfered.
''What if you got Sebastian sick too?!'''Sweeney go out of bed.
''I'm not sick!'' she said again.
''That's what happens when you stand outside in the rain for hours...'' Mr. T got out of bed.
He was going to see how little Sebastian was doing...
''You stay in bed!'' he ordered her.
Eleanor sighed. She thought today would be a better day for her and Sweeney... Clearly, it wasn't going to be... The day hadn't even properly started yet and he already left her alone again and ordered her to stay in bed...
She wasn't sick... It was just like the first time, Sweeney had no clue... The doctor had told her she could feel warmer than usual and she would probably be nauseas again in the mornings of the first few weeks... It was all normal when you were with child...
Eleanor Todd was again with child... She hadn't told her husband yet, because he was being so distant and she was scared of what he'd say... Nellie was still highly convinced his love for her had been reduced to a minimum and another child wouldn't change anything about that... It would make things worse! She would get huge and fat again... Less attractive and then there would come another crying tiny creature into this world... She didn't know what to do...
She knew she should tell Sweeney... She was already two months pregnant! She hadn't talked to him about it in two months... Two months ago had probably been the last time they'd had a proper conversation at all... It had also been the last time the married couple had actually spent some 'private-time' together and in that time this baby had been conceived... Two months... Two months without basically any kind of affection!
The baker felt another wave if nausea coming up. She quickly got up to go the bathroom, but the bedroom door opened and her husband returned.
''I told you to stay in bed!'' he raised his voice.
''I got to-'' she tried to explain.
''You're sick, you need to rest!'' at that moment his wife threw up just in front of his feet.
''I'm sorry...'' she muttered.
''Get back to bed, now... Please, Eleanor...'' he tried not to upset her.
He was worried about her, but she was annoying him with her actions. First, standing in the rain with their son for hours and now almost throwing up over his shoes!
Nellie felt defeated. She wasn't sick! After throwing up, she immediately felt better. She sighed and obediently got back in the bed.
''Sweeney...'' she needed to tell him...
''Sebastian is not sick'' ''I'll take care of him today, I'll take him up to the shop with me to watch him...'' the barber thought she was worried about her son...
''Stay in bed! I need to get to work'' he said before slamming the door shut and leaving her alone...
Nellie let herself fall on the soft pillows. She had decided to surrender. A day in bed couldn't be that bad or could it?
''MumMumMumMumMumMumMum'' the little toddler repeated over and over again...
''Sebastian, please...'' Mr. Todd pleaded as he was trying to give the man in his chair a proper shave...
Mr. T had decided this man would be his last customer for the day. Sebastian was distracting him too much. The little boy wanted to touch everything, he had even tried to get one of his father's razors twice already! The barber shop wasn't a good place to be for a 2 year old...
''I'm sorry, Sir...'' he apologised to his customer.
''It's fine, he's quite the handsome little man'' the man chuckled.
''He's quite a handful too...'' Sweeney sighed.
''MumMumMumMumMum'' Sebastian said again.
Mr. Todd picked him up and held the door open for the customer to leave.
''MumMumMum'' the little boy looked at his father with his big brown eyes.
Yes, okay... We're going to see MumMumMum...'' he took his little boy downstairs.
Eleanor was staring at the ceiling. After a day of being in bed and sleeping a lot, she was bored out of her mind! Being in bed all day was useless if you weren't sick...
''MumMumMumMumMumMum'' she heard her son coming closer.
Seconds later, the door of the room opened and her son was brought in by her husband.
''MumMum!'' the 2 year old waved his chubby arms enthusiastically.
''Come here!'' she got up and took her son in her arms.
''You'll get him sick, Eleanor... Don't hold him too close!'' Sweeney warned his wife.
''I'm not sick, Sweeney!'' Nellie had had enough of the way he acted towards her.
He acted like she was dying op the Plague or something!
''Then, why did you stay in bed all day?!'' there was an argument coming...
''You ordered me to! I can never seem to do something right... What's the matter with you?!'' Nellie raised her voice.
Sebastian started to cry, because of the sudden loud noises. He had never heard his mother raise her voice... He didn't know what was going on... What was everybody doing?!
''Great...'' Sweeney turned around and left the room again.
He didn't want to start an argument... He would sleep upstairs tonight...
''I'm sorry, dearie...It's okay...'' Eleanor whispered in her son's ear.
She gentle put him down on the bed and stroke his head. She got under the covers again and placed a kiss on top of his head. She didn't expect her husband to come back down soon...
She didn't expect him to come to her at all...
I'll try to put some of Sweeney's thoughts on the whole situation in the next chapter!
If you want a next chapter of course...
