As the pair burst though the door, Mrs. Lovett looked up from the dough she was pounding away at, clouds of flour clinging to her face and dress. Toby was carrying a rather heavy looking sack of apples, Kagome and himself eating one. A smile of relief crept onto the baker's face. She walked over and wrapped them both in a bear hug. "Oh, I was so worried!" Lovett cried loudly.
"Mom, we were only gone a few minuets!" Kagome wheezed as she felt her mother's arms wrap around her tightly. "Yeah, mum, I was jus' playing' with the guys when Kagome came an' got me." Toby said as the baker released him.
"Well, you shouldn't 'ave snuck off in the first place, youn' man!" She scolds, wagging her finger. He sighed as he heaved the bag of fruit into the booth beside him. Mrs. Lovett noticed the loud thump it made as he gloomily threw it in."Where you two ge' these, now?" she asked as she picked one up and took a bite for herself.
"We stopped by the fruit stand on the way here," Kagome began, taking another loud bite into her apple. "And then we saw how over priced they were and-", "An' then Judge Turpin comes o'er an' pays fer 'em!" Toby continues in a growl, causing the baker to choke on her apple for a moment. When her gagging ceased, she looks at the two as if they have two heads.
"WHAT?" she bursts angrily, causing the two children to jump in surprise. Lovett looks at Toby. "'E didn't do nothin', did 'e?", "No! O' course not! I'd never let' nothin' hurt 'er!" he shouts, his voice faltering slightly at the very thought of allowing his sister to be hurt by a man such as the Judge
"He didn't do nothing, mom. He just bought us some apples." Kagome squeaks as she tries to defend her brother. She winces as she feels her mother's alarmed eyes on her now.
"Kagome, 'es a bad man. 'Es done bad things." She says darkly in a low mutter. "I-I know. Its Just, well, he didn't do nothing bad-", "This time." Lovett interrupts fiercely. Kagome fiddles with her half eaten apple as she looks at the ground. "W-well, not this time, but I thought I-It was a nice g-gesture." she mutters as she feels the tears tug at the corners of her eyes.
"Still," the baker puts her hands on the girl's shoulders as she looks her in the eye with a look in her own that sends chills down the young teen's spine. A look that reminds her all too clearly of the barber upstairs. "I don' want ya associating' with people like 'im." she scolds darkly, her tone firm yet gentle.
"'Es dangerous, love." Kagome just looks at her for a moment before looking down and taking another awkward bite of her apple. After a moment, her brow furrow, like a feeling of strange confusion. Then, she begins to cough, which soon turns into quick gasps for air as her eyes widen in fear.
Lovett immediately starts pounding on her back, yet sill, her coughs and gasps for air didn't cease. when she begins to double over, clutching at her throat, the baker shouts at Toby to get start to stream down her face as Kagome dug her nails into the baker's flesh as she violently shakes with tremors. Mrs. Lovett attempts to pull the apple out by slipping her finger down her throat to no avail.
"What's going on?" The barber's low voice thundered through the room as he burst through the door. "SHES CHOKIN'!" Cried Lovett hysterically, pulling her finger out of Kagome's mouth, holding her tightly in her arms as she continues to shake and tremble, still gasping for air.
By this time, her face was begun to look blueish as she clutched at her throat, desperate for a breath. "Toby, quick! Fetch the Doctor!" she manages to gasp through her sobs. Sweeney grabs the girl's shoulders and throws her onto the counter. The baker's eyes widened."WOT ARE YOU DOING!" she shouted as she watched him take out his razor in horror.
"Doctors won't be able to get here in time, we have to clear her throat or she'll suffocate" he growled loudly, just barely covering the panic in his voice. "But if you slice open 'er neck she'll surely bleed to death!" She screams as she clutches at his shoulder. He didn't listen. Opening his razor, Kagome looks up at him, tears running down her pale, blue face. Sweeney looks at her one last time before bringing down the blade.
Pacing back and forth, Mrs. Lovett could barely keep herself breathing, she was so full of anxiety. After she stopped Sweeney from plunging the silver razor into her throat, The Doctor burst through the door at the moment Kagome had blacked out. Now, along with Toby and Sweeney, she waits for cruel fate to tell her her daughter is gone.
Of course, what else should she expect? Is fate not the cat that toys with her day in and day out? Or will today be one of those extremely rare days where her pleas are answered with Mercy?
Biting down her nails to the nub, The baker glances at The demon barber and her adopted son: one sat silently in his chair, staring out into oblivion, face pale and emotionless like waiting to sent to the gallows, while the other looked like he'd been caught with deadly weapons as well as drugs at school.
Watching Toby there, his eyes darting every which way as he trembled in fear for the worst, Mrs. Lovett began to wonder if this was her fault. Maybe she had trusted her daughter to be on her own too early. Or maybe this was Sweeney and her's punishment. Or maybe God just hated her. She pondered on these thoughts as she continued her pacing.
Hands holding the arms of his chair in a death grip, Tobias Ragg trembled terribly as the worst thoughts began to creep slowly into his already unraveling mind.
Was she dead?
Was she alright?
Could she be saved?
Were the doctors treating her right?
Was it his fault?
It was on this last thought that he stopped and froze.
Was it his fault?
True, he couldn't help the fact she was choked, but he had strongly disapproved of buying the apples while on their way back home. He had told her it was a waste of time and money, although the latter was fixed by Judge Turpin.
He growled silently, the very thought of the despicable Judge Turpin made his breathing quicken with rage. He had heard his parents (if he could consider the barber his father) talk about how that pervert eyed his sister earlier that day.
The very thought of a man even taking an inappropriate attraction to any girl as young as her made him sick! He dug his nails into the cushion of the chair as he felt his nose flare up, anger gripping his heart fiercely.
As he felt himself calm down after a few moments,he was brought back to think rationally. Was it his fault? He had very well told his sister that buying the fruit was immature and irresponsible, yet he let her shining eyes and innocent pleas convince him other wise...again.
No matter who's fault, if anyone's, Toby knew one thing:
When his sister came out this place, He would protect her. Yes, He didn't think If. He knew she would.
Surely she would.
She had to.
She just had to.
Staring straight ahead, barley maintaining his blank face, Sweeney Todd was having an on-going battle with his emotions. Grief battled anger, who battled Anguish and uncertainty, were in between Comfort and Nervousness, all settled in the pit of his stomach while concern gripped his heart like a hand grenade.
The Demon Barber had soon felt rather thankful that the baker had stopped him from slicing Kagome's throat. What ever the circumstances were, he didn't think he could actually go through with slicing the throat of someone who was like a daughter to him for the better part of Seven years.
Now, however, with the length of the procure, he began to doubt the action.
Mrs. Lovett looked what he guessed was how he looks when he paces in his room, thinking of different ways to kill the Judge. He could only imagine what she must be going through. After she had talked to him about the girl, Sweeney had come to finally notice: the baker had no children of her own, this he had no idea why, and no love interests, ones that had/will have his throat slit by him, so all she really had were the boy and Kagome, the young children that seemed to give the barber a sense of comfort.
Well, he supposed that he couldn't call them children anymore. Sweeney grimaced slightly as he thought of the little time he had left before the two would be at the point of courting/being courted.
Still, no matter how old she was, Kagome was far too young to die. This thought almost made him want to smile. When he first returned, he had thought that everyone deserved to die, including himself and his landlady. Yet, even when they first met, Sweeney had thought the girl innocent and pure, far too much so to leave this world.
As the minuets slowly but surely turned into hours, Sweeney Todd thought bitterly that if this was the girl's last day, this thought is what he would lastly say to her.
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