Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. To everyone who guessed who the mystery woman at the end was, you'll find out if you're right below.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious', 'Sweeney Todd', or any characters. OC and plot courtesy of brenducha.
No POV
"Uh, who are you?" Jade asks, staring at the woman, a raised eyebrow at the woman's clothing.
"You can call me Mrs. Lovett, love." The woman, Mrs. Lovett, says with a smile.
"Uh, I'm Alice. This is my sister Jade, and our friends Tori, Cat, Andre, Beck, and Robbie." Alice says, indicating each name.
"Nice to meet you all. Come with me. Let's get you all out of this dreadful weather." Mrs. Lovett tells them, the group noticing the rain falling around them, their attention too focused on where they were.
"Where are we going?" Jade asks, not believing that the woman in front of her is who she says she is, recognizing the name as the woman who took Sweeney Todd in and, based on the stories, fell in love with him before he burned her alive in her stove for her lying about his wife.
"My shop." Mrs. Lovett answers simply, leading the group down the streets towards a small shop that looks a little worse for wear than the rest of the town.
"Don't eat the meat pies." Jade whispers to the group as they sit down at some tables in Mrs. Lovett's shop, looking around.
"Why?" Tori asks, accepting the glass of, slightly dirty, water from Mrs. Lovett.
"Two words, Vega. Soylent. Green." Jade tells her and the others, everyone recognizing the phrase.
"Mrs. Lovett, I will be handling some business for a while. No interruptions." The group hear a man say from the doorway. Looking over, Jade tenses at the figure, recognizing the man. "Who are they? And what is with their clothing?" The man, a bit taller than Beck, his hair slightly wild with a white streak covering about a fourth of his hair, asks as he sees them.
"I found them on my way back from getting some supplies." Mrs. Lovett says, setting a large plate of meat pies in front of the group.
"What are your names?" The man, Sweeney Todd as Jade instantly recognizes, asks as he looks around, stopping when he sees Alice.
"Uh, I'm, I'm Alice West. This is my sister Jade. These are our friends, Tori, Cat, Andre, Beck, and Robbie." Alice repeats, slightly stunned at the man before her.
"Why give our last name?" Jade asks her sister, elbowing her.
"Mr. Todd?" Mrs. Lovett asks, catching his attention, a tone of jealousy in her voice at the way Sweeney stared at Alice.
"Yes, Mrs. Lovett?" Sweeney asks, turning his attention away from Alice, irritation clear in his voice.
"Your business?" Lovett asks, not looking at Alice.
"Of course. No one interrupt me until I return." Sweeney says, looking away from Mrs. Lovett and leaving, giving Alice one quick glance on his way out.
"Okay, what the hell was that about?" Jade asks her sister, giving Robbie a grossed out face when he takes a bite of the meat pie and seems to enjoy it. "You did not just eat that." She asks him, shaking her head and looking back at her sister.
"What do you mean?" Alice asks, pretending as if the last few minutes didn't happen.
"You froze, practically, when that guy walked in. You never freeze. Not even when you caught Beck and I having sex before we broke up." Jade says, rolling her eyes when Cat and Tori seem grossed out.
"I didn't freeze, I was just caught off guard." Alice answers, shaking her head. "And I knew you two were having sex before I even came home because somebody doesn't understand a secret." She says, the last part at Robbie. "Next time someone tells you they're going to have sex with their girlfriend, don't post vague posts about it online." She tells the afro haired teen.
"So, how are you enjoying your pies?" Mrs. Lovett asks, interrupting the conversation with a smile, the smile momentarily disappearing when she looks at Alice.
"Very delicious, thank you." Robbie says as Jade says 'not hungry' and stops Cat from taking a bite of one.
"Good. I have a spare room you all can stay in." Mrs. Lovett says, guiding them to a medium sized room, empty save for a large blanket laying on the floor.
"There's not enough room for all of us." Andre tells her, looking around.
"Well, she can stay in another room." Mrs. Lovett says, nodding towards Alice. "Here. Follow me." She tells Alice, walking away.
"I don't like this place." Robbie says, following the others as Mrs. Lovett leads them to where Alice will be sleeping.
"Neither do I." Cat says, a slightly scared look on her face.
"Here. Be mindful, however. Mr. Todd's 'office' is right over there, and he doesn't like any form of interruption." Mrs. Lovett tells Alice, not expecting the others to have followed. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get ready to open for the day. Do try not to get in the way, will you? Unless you're willing to work for me?" She asks them as she heads for the main floor to open for the day.
"We'll pass, thank you." Tori says, politely declining the job offer.
"So, now what?" Beck asks, keeping his distance from his ex and her sister.
"Let's head back to our 'room'. I need to tell you all something." Jade says, grabbing her sister's arm and dragging her through the business and towards their temporary room.
"Okay, what's up?" Tori asks after Jade closes the poorly made wooden door and leans up against it.
"Do any of you remember the name of the serial killer I was talking about on the plane?" Jade asks, her attention focused on a small crack in the door, watching Mrs. Lovett let a young teen, maybe thirteen tops, into the shop and the two start 'cleaning'.
"Uh, Sweeney Todd, I think?" Tori asks, looking around at the others. "Why?"
"Because the man that walked in, with the white stripe in his hair? That's Sweeney Todd." Jade tells them, never looking away from Mrs. Lovett. "The woman who brought us here is Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a meat pie shop that became famous as people would mysteriously disappear from town."
"What? You're saying he kills people, and she uses the dead guys as meat for her pies?" Andre asks, scoffing.
"Then that would mean we, what? Traveled back in time to when he was alive or something?" Beck asks, staring at his ex.
"Yes, we did." Jade answers, finally facing the others. "This is a picture drawn of the man who killed over twenty men in less than six months, known to have lived in this very building, over a hundred years ago." She says, pulling out her phone and looking through the pictures she has saved to the phone's memory, showing it to the others. "Look familiar?" She asks them as they pass around the phone.
"Hey, that looks like the man Alice kept staring at." Cat notes when she sees the picture, not seeing the nod from Jade.
That's it for now. As a fair warning: There will be some character death, both in Sweeney's time and the others time. I won't say who, but there will be at least one from Sweeney's time to die, and two from everyone else's time.
Thank you for reading, hope you liked it and review.
Blessed Be.