Author's note:

Hey guys this is Sarah here, bringing you an update after a long time

Well, I've been pretty busy, hardly being able to focus on only one hobby(strangely I'm preferring drawing to writing now =S), so that's why things have been pretty dead on this fanfiction.

To those who do want to see an ending I apologise for the late update

To those who are sick already, too bad I didn't correspond to your expectations

Anyways, be prepared cuz this story will end soon, and I've already started to make up new projects(highly recommended for people who like animes :P)

Enough with my talk let's resume with the story… Enjoy…

AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! =D

"Open the letter Klaus!" said Toby trying to take the letter away from Klaus

Klaus lifted his arm up and even though Toby tried to jump and grab the letter, he failed.

"Stop that Toby!" said Klaus "We're almost at the Judge's house!"

"But it might be something suspicious!" said Toby "I mean he was one of Count Olaf's friends, remember!"

Klaus kept quiet.

The people in the middle of the street passed by them ignoring those children and minding their business.

"Jibuto!" exclaimed Sunny next to them, meaning to say "But that's a violation of correspondence!"

Klaus squeezed the letter on his hand.

"I know Sunny!" said Klaus feeling a chill "But Toby's sorta got a point! We still don't know if he's on Olaf's side, but…"

Toby approached Klaus.

And Klaus all of a sudden ripped the envelope.

"I was going to suggest if you knew of some way to open the envelope without him noticing we've been checking the letter out…" said Toby kind of lodly

Klaus covered Toby's mouth and theey slowly headed to a dark alley.

"I was impulsive… I know" said Klaus after they were deeper in the alley

Sunny pulled Klaus' pants with her little hand.

"Ugitadato!" she said, meaning "Well, read it already then!"

Klaus unrolled the paper and what he read was the following:

Honorable Judge Turpin

I am writing this letter to let you know what the sailor boy has abducted your ward Johanna. I have persuaded the boy to bring her here by nightfall.

Hurry up after night falls and she'll be waiting

I'll be in the barbery waitng

Yours sincerely

Mr Sweeney Todd from Fleet Street

Klaus lifted up his head.

"Did ya understood anything he wrote?" said Toby as confused as him

Klaus pondered for a minute.

"No!"

"You look pale!"

And indeed Klaus was pale. Even though he didn't understood a thing of what was written in the letter, it was as if his nerves had begun to shout at him. Something deep inside of him was saying that if he delivered the letter something bad would happen. It was a bad omen indeed. But where did it came from all of a sudden?

"Klaus?" asked Sunny worried about his brother

Klaus shook his head a little.

And he ripped the letter in two pieces all of a sudden.

Toby and Sunny looked shocked at him.

"Dagita?!" exclaimed Sunny

"Yeah, what was that for Klaus?!" shouted Toby too

Klaus didn't answer, he only bent down to pick Sunny up on his lap. Sunny immediately knew her brother knew what he was doing. Even though she felt like questioning him like she did many times, she kept quiet and trusted him with her small heart.

"Klaus…" said Toby concerned

"Let's go home already!" said Klaus turning his back to leave the alley "It's almost dinner time!"

Toby looked at him then shook his head.

"But what will we say about the letter?"

"We'll lie… We'll say we delivered it…" said Klaus

"But what if…?" said Toby starting to feel his stomach shaking

"Don't worry… Leave it all to me…" said Klaus

Toby looked rather insecure despite what Klaus said.

"Come along now…" said Klaus and Toby followed

As they were back on the street and on their way home, Toby broke the silence.

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?"

"For now I do…" said Klaus "Sometimes we don't have to do what we're told… It won't mean we're doing the right thing if we obey…"

Toby shook his head and decided to ask no more questions. All the points of views would declare that Klaus was just being stupid and impulsive, and rather delusional. But he decided to keep quiet. For he KNEW Todd was cooking something bad. And maybe they were avoiding an unfortunate event. But could faith be altered by the choices of men?

As they walked through the street, on the dark alley, where the letter just remained there, torn in two pieces, a dark figure approached and picked the two pieced up.

The people who would be there at the time, even though they wouldn't get a good look at the figure, a small grin could be distinguable on the face of that person.

An EVIL GRIN…

"Perfect… Just perfect…"

Anthony came inside the meat pie shop. He came to see if by chances the coach was prepared to take Johanna away from London, but for now there was no sign of it. But then he decided to check on his dear Violet. He was unsure if he would go with Johanna once he had her.

Suddenly a sound of something scratching was heard from out of nowhere.

It was too dark though to see anything.

He walked around the shop to find some sort of lighter.

The sound of the scratching was getting louder.

There was some light coming from the living room. So he decided to look for some light there.

There was Mrs Lovett asleep on her couch. Probably had a long day's work, thought Anthony.

Then he finally took a glance at little Ben. He was sleeping as quietly as his mother.

Anthony couldn't help but smile to himself.

"He sure has a promising future… He's lucky he hasn't committed any mistakes yet…"

Suddenly he thought about his own future.

He wanted what everybody did, grow older, marry and die happy. Was he making the right choices and things in order to deserve such future?

Eventually he woke up from his daydreams and picked up a candle that burned in a corner.

When he went into the pie shop the scratching noise was gone.

But he heard some breathing.

He pointed the candle randomly.

He saw somebody sitting lumply in the floor, and he had to contain a yell.

He approached the candle to the person. The person lifter her face

"Violet?!" he asked almost shocked

He looked around desperately and found a wall lamp and lit it. It was immediately much brighter.

When he looked at Violet he saw that she wasn't allright. She was shaking like she had a fever and tears ran like a waterfall down her face. Her breathing was irregular like she was having an asthma attack. And she was pale, pale as if her life had been sucked away.

"Violet!" said Anthony lifting her up "Violet' what's happened?!"

But she was like a doll, as soon as he lifted her up she was about to loose her balance. Anthony grabbed her into an embrace.

"I'm sorry… I'm sorry…" he said feeling guilty for her state "I promise I won't play with your heart! Ever again!"

Now on that night something had happened in Bedlam. On that night there was an escape of numerous prisoners, all of them lunatics who either had nowhere to go or went to where their mad instincts would order. But amongst those lunatic was somebody, who despite the events she'd been through, had a mental sanity as resistant as a wall of bricks.

It was Johanna…

The blond girl ran happily down the street with her long golden hair spreading around her, or flying thanks to the wind. She was running to the place where Anthony was to pick her up. She wanted to tell him it was allright and that she was there to live happly with him like they had promised eachother several times. Half a year of awaitance and finally the dream was about to come true. Even though she had a weak sense of orientation, she followed the signs on the streets. She ran happily with a deep shine in her eyes, a shine that was kept inside her blue eyes since the previous night.

Eventually she came to fleet street and immediately found the shop.

But the shine of happiness in her eyes quickly became into a shine of sorrow.

It was Anthony she was seeing from the window. He was embracing another girl. Deeply.

She felt an urge to scream loud and loud till all of London could know of her heartbreak.

And she ran off, now being guided by her sorrow through the next street.

Until she bumps upon a figure who she didn't knew if it was a man or a woman…

Meanwhile as Klaus, Toby and Sunny came into the shop, they saw Anthony still embraced to Violet while she sobbed loudly.

"Violet?!" asked Klaus immediately running to his sister still with Sunny in his arms

"Sister?" asked Sunny concerned

"What… What happened?!" asked Toby concerned

"I don't know, she hasn't spoken a word since I've found her on this state!" said Anthony letting go of Violet. He was relieved that she managed to keep her balance. But she still sobbed and shook a lot.

Anthony immediately started to head for the main entrance.

"I'll be right back! I have to pick up somebody!" said Anthony "I WILL BE BACK, I swear I will!"

"Go already!" said Klaus, not minding much of what Anthony was going to do

And Anthony left.

Klaus took his sister's hand. He then remembered…

"Snif… Sniff… WAAAAA…"

"Klaus?"

"Sniff… I peed on the bed… Again… Bad dweam… I'm so… cold…"

"It's allright Klaus… It was just a dream…"

"Take care of Sunny!" said Klaus passing his little sister to Toby's arms "I'll calm her down…"

Toby nodded, and Klaus walked off holding Violet by the hand.

"Nodo?" asked Sunny meaning "Now what?"

Toby had thought while they came home that maybe she could be in danger because of Todd. He looked at the light coming from the living room.

"We'll talk to mommy…"

"Agi…" Sunny was about to contra pose

"She's in much danger as we could be… I know she is…"

Sunny didn't found arguments to launch.

"Gitaidoko!" she nodded while meaning also "But I'll never have the guts to call that zombie a mom!"

And so they walked inside the living room.

Todd was on the barbery watching the moonlight enter throughout the dark shop.

While he watched that pale orb, he sharpened one of his blades, getting ready for the night on which everything would be decisive.

But the image of Violet's shocking face didn't left his mind for one second that day.

He started to sharpen the blade even harder.

Those hallucinations, "Moments", or whatever that decease of the mind could be called had to stop.

And

it

had

to

be that

night!!!!!!!

All of a sudden he felt a pain. Was it an inside pain?

No, he just made a deep cut in his finger. He observed as the blood rushed down his hand and through his glove. The running of blood was an image he'd started to get used to. And it felt comfortable for him…

Suddenly he shook his head

"What if I can't stop killing after this is over?!"

"Being a father isn't easy, you know?"

He didn't turn to see who it was.

"Long time no see Mr Griffin…"

Griffin took a few steps in his direction. Todd kept still glancing at the moon.

"Oh, yes… It is hard, no way to deny it… Especially when your children are…"

Griffin placed himself next to Todd and held the torn letter in his face.

"… disobedient!"

"Where did you…?!" asked Todd feeling his plans going down the drain

"Your boys opened the letter… And to make the disobedience worst, they tore it apart just like that.

Todd's hand squeezed itself on his hand while the blade still there entered on his hand, causing more blood to run out and more pain to be inflected on his flesh.

"Those…" he whispered shaking with rage

Griffin patted him on the shoulder and he stopped shaking.

"Now, now… No worries…" said Griffin putting on a confident smile "I've taken the liberty of spoiling the sailor's plan and to tell him of your noble intentions… But since I'm scratching your back, now it's your turn to scratch mine"

Todd finally faced him. He laughed cynically then looked at him serious again.

"And what exactly makes you think I'm going to help you?!"

Griffin didn't answer by words. Instead he took off the hat covering his one eyebrow, and the coat that disguised his skinny figure. In short words, he finally revealed himself as being Count Olaf in the flesh.

Todd looked at him shocked.

"Yo-YOU?!" he said backing away from him into a dark corner "It can't be… How did… How did you found me?!"

Olaf laughed with his eyes shining more than ever.

"I NEVER reveal my sources to anybody… You should know by now that I'm a man with more than one eye" he said showing the tattoo on his ankle "Not only in my body… But wherever I want…"

Todd stood there shaking.

"You've only began to wake up to life you filth…"

"What do you want?!" he said feeling fear.

Olaf came to the dark corner and kneeled before him so they could be face to face.

"I want that favor you're still owing me… After all who helped you out of that dark, dark place?"

Todd felt the sweat going slowly down his face.

"I'll be brief and clear: I want you to concede the guardianship of the Baudelaire orphans to me!"

Todd's eyes grew wide opened. Why did he want the children for? His intentions were unknown, and something told him that he wouldn't do what was needed for the children.

"The Beadle threatened us…"

He looked a bit surprised.

"What kind of "threat"?"

"He said if we didn't improve our life conditions soon… He'll give the kids to Mr Griffin!"

"Don't worry! I'll take care of everything, just like we planed!" said Todd with a creepy smile "Soon the Beadle will take back what he said!"

"It' not that that worries me, Mr T… It's Mr Griffin!"

"Oh, please don't tell me that you also…"

"I keep telling you and I'll repeat it once again: He's not a good influence! He looked sort of excited to have the kids as their property! And I don't like seeing our children being taken against their will!" said Mrs Lovett almost yelling

"Nobody will take them, I guarantee you that! And he knows Judge Turpin. We'll get rid of him after it's over…" said Todd very confident in his words

If his fiancé was next to him, it would surely have been a case of "I told you so!".

"NO!"

Olaf looked at him like Todd had spoken on another language.

"Say wha…?"

"I can't give you the children! I can still prove myself as a father! I will be the one to make them happy!"

But suddenly a flash of all the bad moments he had with the children raced through his mind.

As he saw Violet's wet face again it was like a punch had hit him hard in the face. He looked away from Olaf to his right. His breathing was slow and deep.

"Prove yourself as a father, eh?" said Olaf with an ironic voice

Todd looked at him.

"Then let the little test I've made for you begin…"

Olaf walked to the chair and sat on it, while Todd stood up and looked at him still in his spot.

"You see, I like it when people keep their promises… And I LOVE IT when those promises are put into testing…"

Todd looked at him motionless.

"Just a little while ago I was walking on the street, and my colleagues came up to me with some girl said to have escaped from Bedlam… Beautiful, like a flower she was… But I can't remember her name now, what was it now… Johanna?"

"Johanna?"

"Oh yes, that was her name, allright! Beautiful as…" said Olaf spinning the chair facing the mirror "… Oh I mean, exactly like that woman over there!"

"How… How does he know of all this?! I barely told him anything when we…"

"Touching you where it hurts I see…" said Olaf standing up and walking towards him

Todd didn't felt anything at all. Besides the blood still running down his hand and the blade still inside the palm of his hand.

Olaf placed an arm on his shoulder.

"Sometimes we have to satisfy one side to satisfy the other… You said it yourself… And I'm not only wining you the chance to get revenge on Judge Turpin, but I'm also giving you your pretty daughter that you've longed for so long…"

Todd looked at him still feeling confused. A decision was to be taken.

"What say you?"

A decision that would change everything… Independently of his choice…

"What say you?!"