Act 1 of 2 [Romantic Horror] After Mr Todd and Mrs Lovett form a much needed truce, Nellie has trouble sticking to their promise. Soon they appear to be spiralling down into a changeless life of blood-lust, temptation and murder... Will they ever break free from their macabre deeds and secretive acts of violence? Or has it been weaved into them both, never to disappear?

What if Fantine had had someone to turn to the night she lost her pride? Introducing Marceline Angevine; The kind upperclass woman who changes the fates design when she takes Fantine and Cosette in as her own family. Later ValjeanXFantine, CosetteXMarius, EponineXEnjolras. Rated for language.

Hope Mellark thought she was safe. She didn't think she'd ever be reaped. But on the reaping for the 90th Hunger Games her name is called. The little Mockingjay was born in the arena and now there's a big chance she'll die there, too.

The Judge doesn't see Lucy on that fateful day in the market. Benjamin is never arrested, Lucy is never raped and Johanna remains with her parents. So what is it that turns kind, loving, husband and father Benjamin Barker into the sadistic serial killer, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?

"Do not underestimate the power of a father's love, especially my love for my daughter."

This is the story of what happened with Johanna and Anthony towards the end of Sweeney Todd and after. How will their life together be? Will Johanna ever find out that her father was Sweeney Todd? And will they make it together?

Kay based story of Erik's childhood Christmas with his mother, Madeleine.

While in Prison, Benjamin Barker writes a heartfelt letter to his dearest wife, Lucy.

Lucy laments for a moment before her attempted suicide. Also posted in Plays/Musicals.

What did London have to offer her really? Besides, bits of pieces of a life and love she'd never had and smog crowded skies. A little glimpse of Mrs. Lovett and what a life by the sea really promises to her. Peace, and maybe a hint of redemption.

Collection of 100 word drabbles. Various characters, pairings, genres, and situations.

The lead up to and the death of Mrs Lovett from her perspective. The song sung in the movie is the dialogue. *May be inaccuracies - done from memory*

Christine's life, from that night beneath a moonless sky, how she does her best to live life for the next ten long years and the reunion with the man she was supposed to be with.

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde

This story is really weird... Review with a letter and the character will reply. Like it started with just Les Mis, and then A Tale of Two Cities, and then Phantom, and now it's basically all fictional French people that the authoress knows about. Yeah.

After Erik forces Christine to leave, she comes back, swearing that she is ready to leave her old life behind. But when she is faced with Erik's monstrosity of a face and a dangerous journey to smuggle her angel of music to safety, can that promise still prevail? Eventually an Alt Love Never Dies story...E/C as always...I do not own Phantom or Love Never Dies.

A book, a musical, and a movie all walk into a bar...

Anthony and Rapunzel's Prince discuss towers, Johanna and Cinderella talk to birds, and Sweeney shaves and almost-shaves a lot of people.

A musical, a movie, and a penny dreadful all walk into a bar...

Benjamin remembers in prison. Lucy, Johanna-they'll be waiting for him when he comes home. And he WILL come home. Because they're waiting. It's simple, really.

A parody you'll never forget and probably never forgive me for.

What had been going through Lucy's mind when she drank the poison?

Fantine doesn't want to do this to herself. It's weak to write him a letter, she knows that, but she feels she has to tell him how she feels, the once burning desire turned to utter hatred. FélixXFantine AU

Or "How Sweeney Todd Should Have Ended." What if Sweeney, Johanna, and the Beggar Woman all calmed down and took a good look at each other? What if Mrs. Lovett finally let go of her Sweeney obsession and looked to the one person who truly loves her? After all that's happened, can everyone still have a happy ending?

Yes, Sweeney supposed, he had been happy here. Once.

A collection of unrelated Toddvett/Sweenett one-shots. Love, hate, passion, pain; alternate universe and canon-compliant; short and long. But all sealed with a kiss. For Livejournal's 30 Kisses challenge.

Sweeney has been living in London for a year, and is filled with sadness at the loss of his wife. Mrs. Lovett told him Lucy took the arsenic years ago; she is dead...or is she? When a man walks into a bar and accepts comfort from a not-so-unfamiliar-stranger, will they recognize each other? Rated M to be safe. Not explicit. Sweeney/Lucy and a smidgen of Sweeney/Lovett. Updating!

Fantine experiences the birth of her beloved daughter. Oneshot.

"There is a lady all in white, holds me and sings a lullaby. She's nice to see and she's soft to touch, she says, 'Cosette, I love you very much'." Cosette finds herself in her very own castle on a cloud, seeking warmth and comfort in a woman who she can only be with in her dreams.

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is in for the shock of his life when a girl staggers into his shop half dead, looking all too familiar. The girl could be his dear Lucy's reincarnate. And what is her story? Murderer, unwilling prostitute, thristing for revenge, much like himself? Sweeney/OC

Sweeney Todd is not a father, and he is not a husband. This is the way it should be. A trilogy of drabbles.

Lover, rival, symbol, dream, beggar, wife. Six people who cared about Lucy Barker in one way or another, but somehow never got to know her. More specific warnings in the author's notes, but you should have a pretty good idea if you know Lucy's story.

A parody of Sweeney Todd. Judge Turpin is obsessed with sparkles, other musicals are referenced, much singing is done, and everyone dies!

Benjamin Barker returned a different man, to find that it was not him alone who had gone through changes. Johanna hides in safety with Mrs Lovett as her guardian while Lucy waits locked away in her tower...

I used to wonder if Lucy and Johanna were looking at the same moon... one-shot

"I'm a monster, is all she can think over and over again...because she can't tell." The reason why Johanna never burst into the bakehouse at the end. One-shot. R&R

Dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.

A world in which Lucy never took the poison, Johanna is no one’s ward, and Sweeney Todd comes home to a normal family. Sweenett.

Benjamin was never sent away, Lucy was never raped. But a twist of events see to the transformation of Benjamin Barker to Sweeney Todd. Ben/Lucy, Sweeney/Lovett.

Sweeney's spiraling as he sees his dearest Lucy in his arms.

Every character's answers for the questions to the "100 Truth" game. Sweeney's truths will still be posted, since it got such great reviews. There will even be answers for brand new characters. Please R&R, especially if you want to see the other answers.

"So all of them stood there and laughed, you see..." Mrs. Lovett finds Lucy in the dead of the night, after that harrowing masquerade.

Todd is reflecting on what he has done to his wife. He doesn't believe anything can save him now, but what if he is wrong? Inspired by Skillet's 'Lucy'.

Based on the 100 Truths Facebook game with answers from our favorite Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Some of these answers will definately shock you. Please Read & Review, my first ever fanfiction. May include some for the other characters at another time.

Everything he ever did…was all for naught. Now, his final act of revenge would be all for her, for Lucy. Oneshot. Sweeney/Lucy

Even in death, she was still his and she was still beautiful.

My alternate ending to Sweeney Todd, what if Todd had recognized the beggar lady before he killed her? Obvious spoilers ahead. T for character death. Lucy/Benjamin one-shot.

What if the four Dollanganger children were never hidden away inside an attic? What if Alicia Foxworth had won her battle over breast cancer? How would their lives differ from the events in FitA and GoS, and what would stay the same? Work in progress.

People say life is for the alive. But for Lucy Barker and her husband, death is just the beginning.

After Johanna escapes Turpin, she wanders the streets until captured for stealing bread and sentenced to Botany Bay. While in captivity, she meets an agonized man who holds a piece of her past and guards her with a fierce protection. Her father.Sweenett

"Indeed, he was their slave...their willing slave." Vignette.

Lucy realises just what Judge Turpin is capable of, with devastating consequences. One-shot.

Oneshot, T for morbidity and insinuation, not particularly pairings-dependant. Arsenic is quite the poison of choice, these days...

Ongoing series of Sweeney Todd drabbles. Each chapter has a different theme with ten unconnected, nonlinear drabbles. Written following the rules of the iPod shuffle challenge.

Benjamin held his wife whilst she slept, listening to the other couple fighting downstairs.

Lucy prepares to take the arsenic, when something - or rather somebody - stops her.

A journey through time and space, through a love story that lasts forever. From Frederic Chopin to the Little Mermaid, from a modern millionaire to Beadle Bamford's estranged mother, they all have something to say about the story...of a certain Barber.

But what of Joanna? Now, he slaughters.

Nellie Lovett is a selfish creature, and a smart one at that. Now that Ben is gone, what is there to do with Lucy? "Silly Lucy, always having all the luck, and too stupid to see it right before her own eyes. Did she really deserve any pity?"

Benjamin needs to see Lucy. Benjamin/Lucy. Warning: extremely fluffy.

"She presses her face against the window, heated flesh against cool glass, wishing it could absorb her, siphon her away from all this." Lucy Barker always turns away from her reality.

She would never leave him alone. He welcomed her, and delved into the arms of madness.

/"Now, Mr. T, you do love me just a little bit, don't you?"/ Sweenett drabble.

/"Johanna. Benjamin had never liked that name very much."/ Drabble.

It's been a long day, and Sweeney Todd is tired but restless. Mrs. Lovett watches as her beloved barber broods, and suddenly, has all but one of his beloved razors stolen. The Beggar Woman is thrown into the mad fray, but who will emerge with their life?

I thought it would be interesting to have Sweeney characters take top eight surveys. Let's hope I was right. Bumped the rating up to T for Lucy's chapter, just to be safe.

Lucy fell to the floor, gasping and twitching, her lips stained with the memory of his. Oneshot.

"Lucy," he tells her in a broken voice. "I've come home again." Drabble.

Nellie's thoughts on those she might call her "friends". Just a oneshot!

A séance. A lullaby. A pervert's epiphany. Ten drabbles sweeping around the Sweeney Todd world.

To be read after "The Transformation of Sweeney Todd". Here follows the reckoning of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. *Alternate ending*

Sweeney misses his Lucy. A trip down memory lane, and a visit for our favorite pie lady...and who is that in Sweeney's chair?

Fantine, as a prostitute, meets with Tholomyes, who does not appear to recognize her.

even in death she was still so beautiful. Sweeney/Lucy one-shot Very short what I think was going through with his final moments with Lucy . I up-loaded this story to fix my spelling and other errors

A parody of Sweeney Todd. Or the inspiring tale of a young man who solves his many emotional problems by becoming a ninja. Take your pick.

Oneshot. "His reflection was fragmented, distorted by the shattered glass, yet it seemed almost accurate. Gazing back at him was a broken man." Sweeney Todd's thoughts during the Epiphany period.

Drabble. Pre-storyline. Benjamin reflects on his beautiful life.

Life goes on...but I die Without You." A look into three minds after Benjamin's arrest. How do these three cope with Ben being gone? Songfic to "Without You" from RENT.

If Sweeney had been able to avenge himself before becoming a full-fledged serial killer, how would his story have played out? Would he have been able to salvage a relationship with his newfound family from many years ago? TEMPORARILY on hiatus.

Sweeney Todd desperately wants his Lucy back. Mrs. Lovett insists that madness can kill a person just as a razor can. Gradual Sweenett. Complete!

Sweeney Todd discovers Johanna as she remains in conflict over he who claims to be her father and the beggar lives.Will the tormenting memories cease? Will a broken family find their reasons for living once more? Mostly Swucy also shocking Sweenett.r r!

Drabble, one-sided Swenett. Nellie recalls those many years ago when Lucy was still around, and the man she loves was then Benjamin Barker. And man, does she remember.

What does Sweeney feel about his Lucy and what does Lucy love about her Ben well what does Sweeney love about his revenge

AU Songfic. They snapped, all of them. It was only a matter of time. Meet the female characters of Sweeney Todd, and one poor Mary-Sue in their rendition of The Cell Block Tango...

Benjamin Barker is haunted by a past that hasn't happened yet.

Johanna was discovered that night, and Sweeney isn't going to give her up without a fight. Johanna thought she would feel the same way. She had always dreamed for a father, hadn't she? But is it really worth all of this death and hurting?

What happened before Sweeney Todd? When Sweeney was Benjamin Barker and lived happily with his wife. But was life as good as he makes out for it to be in the future? Sweeney/Lucy, Sweeney/Lovett.

The man stood there every day, just staring at her. As if she had something he wanted. As if he was trying to piece together a puzzle, to remember her from old days. He was unabashedly, unhiddenly... staring. no pairings.

Sweeney answers Mrs. Lovett's question, "You don't remember what Lucy looks like, do you?"

“And why would I want to spend my evening reading a pile of bloody fairy tales?” Sweeney Todd asked as he stared at Mrs. Lovett and Toby and the enormous book. Rated T for slight language, disturbing theme

This is a tale of a man who had everything. His life was perfect, until his happiness was shattered by a tyrant of the law. So begins the vengeful transformation of Sweeney Todd, and the death of Benjamin Barker.

Leroux-based. Christine realizes what it's really like to be Erik's wife. Slowly, she learns that in order to unlock his heart, she must first unlock hers. Her perspective as his living bride. COMPLETE.

Five things that might have gone differently.

Benjamin spend some time with johanna pre-sweeney todd

This is a collection of drabbles to ficlets, all from Sweeney Todd's POV, studying his character and his motivations. Will be updated weekly. Rated M because some deal with sex.

Mrs. Lovett hears singing.

Mr. and Mrs. Todd go for a walk down the beach.

AU. Events go down a much more different route than Sweeney expected, that mad woman standing on the corner in the beggar clothing is far more central to this story. Sweeney/Lucy. If you're a Toddett Todd/Mrs Lovett fan, this pairing is implied too. DISCONTINUED

Mr. Todd is just about to kill another customer when something unexpected happens.

After Sweeney's death, he meets seven people who've changed the course of his life...and give him a chance to redeem himself.

Lucy has a ritual, a bit of stolen time and one day a year to remember who she used to be. Kind of sad, pretty cannon I think. Thank you!

Archibald Craven is a bitter and lonely young man until he finds love in the most unexpected place. This is Archie's story, and chronicles his love - and loss - of Lilias.

What if Mrs. Lovett hadn’t lied? In an alternate story line Sweeney knows that Lucy is alive, and wants revenge even more than ever. Angst. Sweeney/Lucy Sweeney/Mrs. Lovett. Rating may go up later chapters.

A moment of pity. Or is it? Vague hint of Sweeney/Lucy.

Where most people discovered happiness in truth and honesty, Mrs. Lovett found it in manipulation and deception. With her silver tongue, Mr. Todd was hers to have, hers to love. It was a shame that in the end, she forgot who was controlling who.

A parody of the song "Epiphany" in Sweeney Todd, written for every poor soul that must live through Driver's Education, where they continuously told me that we were all going to die. Thus, a parody was born. Please read and enjoy. 1 instance of mild lang.

The living can never outshine the dead. Todd thinks about Lucy and what she means to him. One-shot.

She will always be remembered for her tragedy as the Barber's beautiful wife. Five moments and thoughts in the life of Lucy Barker.

One-shot. Hope kept Benjamin Barker alive. Vengeance made Sweeney Todd alive. And then there was one.

Oneshot. Mrs Lovett wonders if she'll ever get over Mr Todd.

This is a short one shot mini, one-sided Sweenett poem. Its just Mrs. Lovett's take on how she wished that Sweeney had chosen her over Lucy. Its better than the summary, at any rate. R&R if you can guys! Thanks

One day he would come for her... Lucy no longer knows real from imagined. Based on a Greek myth.

Each time Lucy's name comes up, Sweeney's eyes burn with tears. Tears that will never flow free. Tears that he wants nothing more than to be able to feel running down his cheeks again. Tears to wash away his pain. Oneshot.

Brief character sketch of Sweeney Todd which will later lead into a Sweeney/Lovett one shot. If you'd be willing to read more from me .

A part of him deep down inside, a part of Benjamin Barker, the man he’d once been, pitied her.

Does one ever wonder what happened to Lucy Barker? Some say she wasn't so lucky... Oneshot!

It looked exactly the same, and if he looked hard enough, he could almost see his Lucy standing in the window of the shop. This is not a Sweeney/Lovett fic, so if that's what you're looking for, look somewhere else.

Everyone has a story to tell, and the closer you look at the details, the more the larger picture may change. Lots of spoilers, but I don't know why you'd read this if you weren't familiar with the story anyhow...

Dreams provide what awakening denies. Sweeney/Lucy

Oh, the blood. He lived on the blood, he lived for the blood. And there's only one person's blood he wanted. Very angsty. OneShot.

Sweeney Todd loves yet hates Mrs. Lovett at the same time. A great secret is unearthed and she has to pay. ONESHOT. A/U.

Blades may beat fists, but both succumb to merciless plagues. Even in the case of a demon barber. slight Toddvett and ToddLucy. COMPLETE.

A short little random thing I decided to write...Sweeney's thinking too much about his past again, wishing that everything could change. How he misses Lucy and Johanna...If only things could be the way they used to be...

He loved the dying, loved the ways they died, boiled down to meat and bone and sinew, reduced to component parts, loved the harsh cacophony of the watch of life winding down before its time.

17 year old Johanna recounts her life so far, detailing the events prior to, during, and after Sweeney Todd. Inspired by both the stage version and the movie.

Ben wants love. Sweeney wants blood. Lucy wants Ben. 'She said, "It seems your somewhere far away"'...

Yellow hair always made Sweeney Todd weak. ONESHOT.

Every day, Lucy saw her daughter in that window. Every day, Lucy felt the stabbing pain of knowing that she'll never meet her daughter. Never. /Drabble./

One interpretation of what may have happened had Sweeney not killed Mrs. Lovett. A diluted Sweenet pairing. No fluff.

This is about the feelings of Benjamin, Lucy, and Judge Turpin when Benjamin is taken away. Paragraphs are started by verses of the song 'No Place like London.'

They all deserved to die. Drabblesque.

The beginning of a beautiful relationship: Mrs Lovett tries to find a way through to her newly-returned tenant.

Mrs. Lovett had doubts. It couldn't be helped. If Mr. Todd loved his Lucy, what about her? How must she look through his eyes? Was she blind enough to assume that this new man was indeed the Benjamin Barker she remembered..? One-Shot

No maddening creaking tonight, on the floor above her head. That was new. Nellie Lovett had grown so accustomed to the sound lulling her to sleep at night that its absence was almost disconcerting. Oneshot. Not pretty.

Fifteen years,' he thought. His middle finger leading, Sweeney let his hand travel to her cheek, along her jawline, down her throat to rest on the cold skin that covered her collar bone. BenxLucy

She could see where their dizzying steps were leading, but she refused to acknowledge it. She could hear the taunting cackles of the flames, but she closed her ears to their warnings. But Mrs. Lovett had to believe it. He forced her to.

A one-shot about the various colors of life, told from two alternating perspectives.

A poem about Sweeney thinking of both Lovett and Lucy for love. I DO NOT OWN SWEENEY TODD.

A dreary, snowy night. All he wants is to be left alone. All she wants is to hold him. One-sided Sweenett.

An angsty poem about Sweeney killing Lucy. Very sad. Please read and reviews would be welcome! I DO NOT OWN SWEENEY TODD!

What stories they must tell about Mrs. Lovett's rumpled bedding.

Mrs. Lovett introspection. "Ah, evil is here, sir. The stink of evil from below, from her! She's the Devil's wife! Oh, beware her, sir. Beware of her. She... with no pity... in her heart..."

Benjamin never liked Albert but he always put on a smile and was plessent to him. However when Albert attempted to hurt Lucy he went too far.

Grabbing his head with his hands and letting out a painful grunt, he fell to his knees and forced himself to think, to remember. He… could not…remember. What had been the color of his wife’s hair? Lucy...

Lucy continues to look at her daughter as she raises the bottle to her lips and swallows. What kind of life could Johanna have when her mother was so irrevocably damaged? Oneshot

A poem from the point of view of one of Sweeney Todd's razors.

It had to be done. Gaze in horror and laugh until your sides hurt as everyone's favorite cannibalism musical gets, well, cannibalized!

A short moment between Mrs. Lovett and Mr. Barker, just before he is banished to Australia.

Mrs. Lovett adored her hair most of all. It had been such golden hair, so pale and angelic... It was what Benjamin had adored the most. Now it was greasy and foul, the most horrendous gray shade. It was pitiful.

Based on 2001 concert version. Even after seventeen years, Mrs. Lovett still misses her Albert sometimes. The boy unknowingly shows her how lucky she is. Not LovettToby! Merely a mother son relationship.

Gold. Not one piece twisted, it was absolutely perfect, just like her dear Benjamin. But along the way...he had become tarnished. Everything in life had. If she rubbed hard enough, a little light was sure to shine through again. It had too.

When the door to that massive, deadly oven finally swung forward with a creaking, wailing protest, the flames inside casting a hellish light over the room, he'd known. He'd finally known.

He smiled when he saw his own twisted face reflected in the polished silver. Yes, polished, it was. His razors were still as bright and shining as though they were just newly bought.

A Barber and his Wife are reunited. Just for a moment. But not for long... OneShot Spoilers!

Those three words broke his heart. One shot.

Benjamin Barker never feared death. But now with his wife dead in his arms and his blades dripping with her blood, Sweeney Todd was deathly afraid.

Johanna truthfully hoped that the demon barber had a moral reason for his gruesome actions. Oneshot.

Lucy never did like red roses. Small drabble.

Mr. Todd and Toby watch Mrs. Lovett working. Hints of ToddLovett.

He was in a living hell, and the only light in this perpetual darkness was now merely a figment of his imagination. PreSweeney during his years of imprisonment.

They all deserve to die. Except maybe her. But maybe he's no less naive than he used to be... Companion of sorts to Once Upon a Time. Oneshot. SweeneyLovett, SweeneyLucy.

Do I know you? Lucy's thoughts before her murder by her husband's hand.

When Sweeney thinks in a moment of confusion that Mrs. Lovett is his wife, she takes her chance and 'replaces' Lucy despite knowing what will happen when Todd finds out.

Drabble. A look into what Todd sees when staring at his blades.

When Johanna receives Sweeney Todd's diary, she discovers the truth about her mother and father.

[Sweeney Todd] What if the Beggar Woman wasn't crazy?

A slightly altered version of Sweeney Todd. This involving Anthony saying 'like' more often then the cast of 'Laguna Beach' put together, Johanna shooting up the asylum with a semiautomatic, and Sondheim's Lovely Obvious Hammer. Hilariosity ensures.

PreSweeney. A sweet moment between Benjamin and Lucy Barker. Warning: FLUFF! If you don't like the idea of a fluffy Sweeney fic, this probably is not for you. Read and review please.

EC. Five years after Christine married Raoul, they have returned to France with young Charles. Both know that Christine will never be free of her Angel, but Erik is dead and so they ignore their ghosts and try to be happy. But then an Angel reappears . .

Erik's mother, Madeleine, has been wasting away slowly in the time since he left. Self doubt had never been an issue before, but now she can't do anything but doubt herself... Susan Kay based.

The story of Fantine's life, my first fic so be nice! : ) *COMPLETE!!!*