Memories Of A Past Love
Yes my fellow Sweeney lovers, Sweeney will find out about Nellie's note reading in this chapter. I'm not completely sure if this will be the last chapter or not. if it is, then I'm glad you liked the story. If it's not, I'll probably come around with the last chapter soon, lol. Okay, as always, I'd like to summarize my last chapter now. Nellie read all of Benjamin's notes, and is sad about the fact that he's gone from her now, or is he? Hmm, read on pals. And now I will tell you that i don't own Sweeney Todd, with a MadTV's Mr. Swan (Alex B) impression... Ya okay, I tell you everyting! I no own Sweeney Tooodd, ya know? He da man who kill people, and he looka like a man! And den the lady make da meat pies, ohhhhh. It's so funny, I love dis movie! Yeah, I like Alex and I miss Ms. Swan.
Nellie forced herself to stop crying. Crying was not going to bring Benjamin Barker back . She carefully put all of the notes back into the box and sat silently on her bed. She thought long and hard about what she was going to do. Maybe she could get Sweeney to let out a bit of his Benjamin side to her, to prove to the pair that he wasn't completely dead. Or maybe she could get Sweeney to fall in love with her. That's when she thought of a better idea, an idea to get Sweeney to admit that Ben wasn't really gone from the crazy world they were now living in.
She walked out of her bedroom and walked into her shop, she wasn't surprised to see him sitting at one of the tables drinking a glass of gin. It made since with what he'd been through, that he'd need something to relax himself. She walked up to him quietly and gave a small cough. "Um, Mr. Todd. Do ya mind if I ask ya something?" Sweeney looked up at her and gave a small nod of acceptance. She smiled, pulled a chair up to the table, and sat down across from him. "Mr. T, ya said that Benjamin barker was dead right? So, how can you care so much about Lucy and Johanna if they were Ben's family, and not Sweeney Todd's?"
Sweeney continued to stare at his glass of gin for a few minutes, thinking about a way to answer her question. He looked up at her and gave her a serious look. "Mrs. Lovett, no matter who I am now, Lucy and Johanna will always be my family."
She was upset that he had nothing to say about her, nothing about the past. Nothing about the little notes he'd written to her as Benjamin. "Every other part of Benjamin is gone though Mr. Todd? Please, tell me that any part of Ben is still in you?"
Sweeney stared her down, why was this woman so desperate to know if any part of his former self was alive. "Mrs. Lovett, Benjamin Barker is dead, nothing will bring him back. Now will you kindly tell me where you're going with this, or leave me to finish my gin?" Nellie rose slowly and walked back to her room.
It was an hour before the dinner rush when she emerged from her bedroom, her eyes had grown slightly puffy from crying over his last remark. Why, why did Ben have to be gone? It was impossible, there had to be a part of him still there, a part that cared about her. She met him in the parlor; he was sitting and quietly reading a book. "Oy, I didn't see ya there Mr. T. I'll be right back; I seem to have run low of some pie ingredients. Would you like ta join me?" Sweeney shook his head silently and she left. He looked towards her bedroom door and back at her shop door. He rose slowly and walked towards her room.
Once inside her room he looked towards her bed, and found the box. He lifted the top and found all of the notes. "This is what she's been moping over, stupid little notes?" He rolled his eyes but looked more intently at the first note he picked up. Somehow he recognized it, but he didn't know where he knew it from. After a few minutes he had read over every note. Why did the notes seem so familiar to him, and why did two of them say Ben on them? He heard the pie shop door open and he tossed the notes back in the box and left the room as quickly as possible so as not to be noticed by the baker. "Ello Mr. Todd, what've you been up to?" Sweeney shook his head and left the shop with a stern look on his face. She listened for him to close his door and she smiled to herself.
Sweeney sat in his chair waiting for his dinner, and thinking about the notes. Why were they so important to Mrs. Lovett? And more importantly, why did they look so darn familiar? His thoughts were averted as soon as he heard his door open, and the smell of pie filtered in. "'Ere you is love, sorry I'm late. The place was packed wiv' customers, thanks to you for leaving me enough meat." She winked at him and he simply nodded. She was about to leave after she placed down the tray of food when he grabbed her hand. "Wut is it love?"
Sweeney looked up at her confused. Why did she always call him love, even when he was Benjamin Barker she'd call him that. "I'm sure you wouldn't have wanted me to, but I was just curious. I went inside your room to possibly find what had been keeping you locked in there for so long. What were all of those notes?"
Mrs. Lovett's smile quickly disappeared. "Notes, what notes dear. I don't know what you're talking 'bout." Sweeney stood up and grabbed her by the shoulders. She looked down and took a deep breath. "They were all of those notes that you, I mean, Benjamin had given to me." She looked him in the eyes. "I know that he had told me not to read them until he told me to, but someone told me that he was dead. So I figured that he wouldn't have minded if I..." Her voice trailed off as she felt a rush of sadness come over her. She let out a shaky breath. She was frightened, but she didn't know what of. That Benjamin had told her not to read the notes and she had? That Benjamin had written the notes to her out of love, and she was afraid that Sweeney was going to break her heart and tell her that he hated her? She wanted to escape his hold on her, she wished she had never found them again, but it was too late now. She closed her eyes and tensed up her body. She was expecting a razor to her throat, or for his fingernails to be digging angrily into her shoulders. Instead, she felt his arms around her.
She opened her eyes and looked up at him. He was looking down at her smirking. 'What's wrong my pet, think I was going to hurt you did you?" She gave him a crooked frown. "Why would I do that after what you did? I had completely forgotten about those notes, I should be thanking you for making me remember. If it hadn't been for my curiosity about why you've been so upset today, I would've never found those notes again."
Nellie looked at the barber confused. 'You're 'olding me Mr. T. Why ya doing that if all you can care about now are Lucy and Johanna? Why are you acting like you care about me if every other part of Benjamin Barker is gone?"
Sweeney supported the back of her head with his hand and placed her head on his shoulder. She wrapped her tiny arms around his body, dug her face into his vest and cried happily. He winded his fingers through her curls as he said, "I guess I had forgotten that part of my past, the part of Ben that loved you. I'm so sorry if you were hurt when I said that Benjamin was gone. I'll make that space for you again."
Mrs. Lovett looked up at him and kissed him as hard as she could on the lips. He kissed her back and she squealed happily. They separated and Nellie regained her breath. He hadn't exactly said straight out that he loved her, but she knew he was thinking it. "I'm just so glad I have you back." She smiled adoringly at him, "Both of you." Life was perfect; Mrs. Lovett had the love of her life back in her life. And back in her arms as well. And Sweeney, he was the happiest he'd been in 15 years, or so they thought.
Dun dun duuuun, I love cliffhangers, don't you? Yeah, I said it may be my last chapter in the beginning of the chapter. Well as Mrs. Lovett would say… "Yes I lied, cause I loooove yoooouuu." Well, as far as author and reviewer love goes, ha. I love ya'll as friends and/or reviewers; it'd just be awkward otherwise. So anyway, can I tell you an idea I actually had for my next and last chapter, just to get opinions? I was thinking about bringing 'heeeer' back (aka Lucy as Beggar), to bring some stress to Toddett, because I think there needs to be more action before more happiness. So, should she come back or not? Should I end it here, I want to hear from you all. ^_^ P.S. Finishing this chapter made me deliriously happy, when I got to my next class (yeah I typed about half of this story in free period) my friends were worrying about why I was smiling like XD! I wanna celebrate this being so far, my longest story and my longest chapter! I lovett! P.S.S I'm so happy that all reviewers for this chapter will get a review reply signed by Sweeney himself and they get their names mentioned in my next and possibly last chapter of this story, ain't it excitin'?! P.S.S.S-If you do think I should make one last chapter to thins with Lucy butting in and being killed, and Sweeney getting annoyed with Nellie about lying. Should I make Nellie's answer more sincere than she was in the movie so that he get's over how ticked he was at her for lyin, and they make up quickly? Cause I want this to end in Toddettness, but I think I need some Lucy trouble before that. LOL!
