I Know All

So, as you all know, for those that have been reading, and hopefully reviewing. Mallory now knows her sisters secret to why her pies have become so much more popular than her own. What will her next move be? If she decides to tell all, how will Nellie react? Do I have some news, actually I do, but I want to tell in my note at the end of the chapter. So I should start now huh? I don't own Sweeney Todd and I don't own any dishes that ran away with any spoons, so yeah.

Mallory jolted out of bed later that morning in a cold sweat. She had dreamt that she told Nellie about what she knew and Nellie reacted by hunting her down with her butchers knife. And suddenly everything went dark, but when things went into focus again, Mallory's view was downward, staring at a lonely meat pie on the counter. As Mallory returned from her remembrance of the nightmare she shook her head. "No, Nellie would never dare do that to her older sister. We don't get along, but isn't that going a bit too far, even for 'er." She knew one thing for sure though, she had to tell her. This wasn't just murder, it was that and cannibalism. Of all people, Mallory never thought that her innocent little sister would come to something like that, it just shocked her. She was relieved when she left her room and no one else seemed to be awake.

As soon as she found herself downstairs again she walked over to the shattered lantern and started to clean up the mess. "I already know she's a murderer, I don't have to leave behind evidence of me knowing it." After that was done she walked over to the table where all of the disembodied and rotting body parts were. "Nellie, how can you be doing this? This is just disgusting." She continued to criticize her younger sibling as she carefully grabbed a bloody hand and ran back up to her bedroom, making sure to close the bake house door behind her.

Later on Mallory emerged from her room to see Nellie and Toby sitting together eating breakfast. She walked into the shop and looked around. "Hey Nell, where's Mr. Todd?"

Nellie cast her gaze upward and Toby spoke for her. "He never comes down unless he needs to talk to mum about something. Or unless 'e wants some of my gin." Mrs. Lovett shot him a look that he knew meant 'it's everybody's gin dear.' He looked down and gave a small smile. "Your breakfast is over there, I guess, Auntie Mallory." Mallory looked at him surprised as did Nellie. Then again, since the two women were sisters, and Toby was Mrs. Lovett's adopted son, Mallory was technically his aunt. Mallory smiled and went to get her food.

After breakfast Mallory and Nellie were cleaning up the dishes together, when Nellie started to giggle. "Doesn't this remind you of when we were girls Lory? We'd always clean up the dishes and see 'oo could finish first?" Mallory nodded but then a slow, sly grin appeared on her face. She reached for some of the bubbly soap that was in a pot. She turned to her sister and blew it in her face. Both women screeched and started throwing soap at each other. Mallory didn't wan to ruin this nice moment between the sisters, but she needed to tell Nellie what she knew. She suddenly grabbed her hand and dragged her little sister to her bedroom.

Mallory walked over to her bedside table and stood in front of it. "Um, Nellie, I know I'm a guest and shouldn't be snooping around. I needed to know something though and I'd do anything to get information. Very, and I mean very early this mornin' I found a door." Now Mrs. Lovett was starting to get worried. What if Mallory had found out what was really going on? "It turned out to be your bake 'ouse. Well I was looking around and I found this." She opened the drawer and pulled out the bloody and rotten hand. "What are you doing Nellie? Killing people and then feeding 'em to your customers?"

At first Nellie looked down in shame, but her head snapped up quickly. "Me, you were the one snooping around my bake house! If anyone should be getting yelled at it's you!"

Mallory got up close to Nellie's face and gave her a hard glare. "Oh don't even try to make this about me, little sister! You were the one criticizing me yesterday. Telling me that killing cat's was disgusting and wrong, talking about their little sad eyes. Just look at what you're doing, it's worse! You're chopping up and having people eat their own kind! If anything, that's worse than what I do." Then Mallory said something she never imagined ever saying to Nellie. "You're a 'ypocrite Nells, you tell me to not kill innocent living creatures such as cats and feed them to people, and then you go and feed PEOPLE TO PEOPLE! You spent yesterday complaining about me when you've should've been complaining about yourself!!!"

Nellie just screamed in frustration and stormed out of the room. Back in the shop she thought that they were finally getting along, but boy was she wrong. She just wanted to scream and chase her sister out of the house like Mallory had done to her years ago, but she wasn't that cruel. So she simply decided to go down to the bake house and get some pies ready for the next customers. Nothing calmed her down when she was fuming more than chopping at a few dead people. Any normal person would cringe or stare in grotesqueness at a statement like that, but Nellie Lovett was definitely nota normal person. As she stood down there she talked angrily to no in particular. "How dare she call me a 'ypocrite, cats are not the same as people. She says killing people is worse than killing cats? Well, that may be true. Still though, cats is innocent and sweet." She kept stabbing at the victim and threw the meat into the grinder. She grinded the wheel slowly while she kept talking. "It's like Mr. Todd said, not all people are innocent. Maybe he was right that day, maybe some people really do deserve to die. And the only way that I was able to realize it was through that rotten sister of mine." Suddenly a thought dawned on her, what would Mallory do now? Would Mallory find out that Sweeney was the one killing people for her pies? Whatever Mallory did next, Nellie knew that she had to tell Mr. Todd that Mallory knew the truth first. Mrs. Lovett may have been good at coming up with the idea to bake people into her pies, but he was the one to come up with plans.

Suddenly Toby came out from his room and Sweeney came down from his shop upstairs. "What the hell is going on down here you two? I'm up there trying to sharpen my razors, but I'm getting distracted by two screeching sisters! Either get along or get apart! You girls can't be together for five minutes before getting into a fight, so just be quiet!"

Toby just stared in awe as Sweeney yelled at both women. He knew that the barber was an angry man, but he'd never seen him that angry. He didn't know why he did it, bur soon he found himself yelling. "WOULD EVERYONE STINKIN' SHUT UP!!!" Everyone stopped to stare at Toby for a few minutes, but soon they were fighting all over again.

Nellie started it up again. "Mr. T, she knows. She, snuck down into my bake house early this morning and found the you know what's." She quickly shook her left hand "On the table." Sweeney looked at Mallory worriedly and she nodded her head, frowning disappointingly. "Then she went and called me a 'ypocrite for me criticizing her about 'er cat pies yesterday."

Sweeney shushed Mallory before she was going to start yelling at Nellie again. "Alright, how's about we three sit in the parlor here and talk about this. I mean, it's only morning and I've already had enough bloody yelling for one day." The sisters agreed quietly and followed the barber, not taking their hard glances off of each other the entire way.

So, that's all I have for chapter 4. Don't worry though, there is more to come in chapter 5! Well, there should be, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a story. So I hope you'll enjoy chapter 5. Okay, now onto the news, I have 3 pieces. The first is some bad news… Tim's exhibit left NYC yesterday 4/26/10 and I is berry berry sad. But at least I got to write a review of it for my school newspaper! XD Now for the good news!!! My sister had her baby, and it's all good. Emily Ann (middle name same as mine-named after her aunt Nellie) Iveyns was born at 8:27am yesterday and my sister and I didn't have any of our classes, because we're in CHOOSE now and don't have classes anymore. So we and our dad went down to the hospital to see her, she's a cutie! And the second good news, I have a bootlegged (yes I know it's illegal but I couldn't pass up the chance-plus if it's bad quality I might just buy it when it's supposed to come out) dvd of AiW (you better know what AiW means) in NYC!!! I told my best friend and she told me that she hated me. Aww, my bff hates me because I got it early. Her exact words were "Not fair, you get to be mad and evil before anyone else, I hate you for now!" XD XD XD *Starts to rock out with sister.* Whoop whoop! Me and my sister get along, unlike the pair in the movie we got early. I wish peace, love, pies and tea to you allll!