A/N: All lyrics in this chapter were written by me!

The next morning Sweeney woke up in his own bed with no recollection of how he'd gotten there. He supposed that must have been Mrs. Lovett's doing...

The door to the pie shop banged open and Toby jumped, startled.

"Oh, good morning, Mr. T," the boy said warily.

"Where's Mrs. Lovett?"

"She went out," Toby replied nervously.

"Where?"

"Shopping, I think."

Mrs. Lovett hadn't even gotten halfway to the market when she was cornered by Mrs. Mooney's sons. She was backed against a wall and seriously beginning to fear for her life when suddenly a voice rang out.

"What are you boys doing? Nothing illegal, I should hope."

"Of course not, sir!" the older of the two brothers responded. "We was just... um..."

"Well, we'll be going now," the younger brother said quickly, grabbing his brother by the arm and hurrying him away from the scene.

Mrs. Lovett let out a sigh of relief and stepped away from the wall, only to find herself standing beside Judge Turpin who, apparently, had been her savior.

"Are you unharmed?" the judge asked softly, placing his hand at the small of her back and guiding her out of the alley that she'd been forced into by the Mooney boys.

"Oh, don't worry about me. I'm quite alright," she answered nervously. Inside she was panicking. This was the man who'd raped Lucy and had Johanna sent to Bedlam when they'd rejected him. And now he was flirting with her. She certainly hoped his interest in her was nothing more than a passing fancy.

"Mrs. Lovett!"

She looked up at the sound of her name being called. She had never been so glad to see Sweeney before in her life.

"Mr. Todd! What are you doing here?"

He'd witnessed the entire encounter but had been too far away to help. He hated that it had been that damn judge who had protected her, but from the looks of things she was in just as much danger from the judge himself as she'd been from the Mooney boys. He had to get her out of the judge's clutches, now.

"Why didn't you tell me you were going out?" Sweeney said. "Come now, let's hurry to the market. There's a few things I need for my shop as well."

Mrs. Lovett, glad for the excuse to get out of Turpin's company, quickly thanked the judge for his help and rushed to join Sweeney.

As they walked away down the crowded street, the judge did not see the barber take the baker's hand.

His voice a harsh hushed whisper, Sweeney scolded Mrs. Lovett as they walked:

"Don't just walk into danger by yourself.
You could have been raped, you could have DIED.
Silly woman, haven't you figured out yet,
That the safest place for you is by my side?

Don't be reckless, don't go out alone.
But you don't have to worry, you don't have to hide.
As long as you stay in the safest place,
Which, of course, is right here by my side."