Business Never Better
Chapter 3: They Lost it All
A/N: Hello everyone! I do not own Sweeney Todd…unfortunately!
That bitch, Nell, I wanted to be her friend…but now business was picking up again and I had to fight her as competition and anyway, Paddy had made such wonderful pies!
It would've been around a year or two after Ben got deported.
Lucy Barker attempted suicide. I didn't hear it from Nellie, I heard it from London rumours, and London rumours are very useful…in fact I pieced most of this story together through them.
Arsenic, she poisoned herself. Life with the judge was taking its toll on her broken heart so she tried an easy escape of death and left Johanna with Turpin.
She failed, she did not die…I thought she had until I realised that she had driven herself insane.
The rest of London was blind to the truth, Lucy was really the beggar woman who stumbled around the dirty streets earning a few coins here and there as she whored herself out to desperate men. Disgusting…but you must feel for the poor woman.
Lucy…she'd had such a bright future. Often I lay awake in the dark and wonder: If Turpin hadn't pulled her life apart…what would've happened?
Benjamin and Lucy would have had a wonderful life with their daughter but instead they lost it all.
Not long after that, Albert died, in his sleep. I think Nellie may have assisted somehow with his death…it was all he deserved but I think she was too soft to do such a thing.
The next five years passed fairly smoothly, my pies were popular…and the stray cats were all disappearing…at least I was helping the town!
Nellie found out my secret, that cow, I cursed her at the time. Her pies were, once again, competing with mine. Luckily, somehow, mine remained popular while she was lucky if she got one customer every month.
A/N: Another short one…sorry!! I promise the next one will be longer!!
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