Thanks for the follows, faves, and reviews. This chapter takes place the day after the last, and they finally go home.
After this, there will be two or three chapters based on episodes of 'VicTORious', and then another chapter or two not based on episodes, and maybe an epilogue.
Warning: The second character death happens in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't won 'VicTORious', 'Sweeney Todd', or any characters. Alice and the plot are courtesy of brenducha.
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"Wait, what?" Alice asks, her and her sister sitting in the small room they've been staying in as the others work in the shop. "What do you mean we're going home?" She asks, conflicting thoughts in her head.
"When Robbie and Andre we out yesterday, Robbie said he saw clothes, like what we used to wear before we came here, in a clothing shop. The same clothing shop we bought our clothes in, where jeans and t-shirts won't be sold in for a couple hundred years or so." Jade says, leaning forward a bit. "He checked it out again earlier today, and in the right spot, you can still see the jeans. So, we're sending someone in the tear, or whatever Robbie's calling it, to find out if it will indeed get us home."
"And who will do that? And how will we know if they go through and are unable to come back?" Alice asks, eager to go home but wanting to stay with Sweeney.
"Cat seems eager enough to. And Robbie said he'll stay by the tear, that way he'll know if she actually slipped through, and if he can pull her back if necessary." Jade answers, impressed that Robbie planned it out in less than ten minutes. "Pack your thinks. We're leaving at nightfall." She tells her sister, standing up and heading for the door.
"Wait. Just like that?" Alice asks, standing up and turning to face her sister. "We're leaving before we know if it'll actually work?" She asks, walking over to Jade.
"Oh, it worked." Jade says, the door open and an excited Robbie and Cat walk into the shop. "They're back, and Cat definitely went through before returning." She points out, a pair of jeans in Cat's arms.
Without another word, Jade leaves her sister and walks over to Robbie and Cat, asking about what happened. As they talk, Alice walks past them and heads for Sweeney, who came back after shaving a customer. "There's something you need to know." She tells him, guiding him back up to his parlor.
"What is it?" Sweeney asks, looking around, thinking Beck tried something again.
After assuring him it's nothing like that, Alice tells him about her timeline, and the apparent way they arrived in Sweeney's time. "And, apparently, we found a way home." Alice ends, the two standing by where he keeps his razors.
"And you're all going home?" Sweeney asks her, not quite believing her story.
"I guess, yeah." Alice says, sighing. "Come with us." She suggests suddenly, perking up. "We can close down the shop, and say we're leaving London for whatever reason. The seven of us will go through the, whatever, Robbie found, and we can live in our time." She says, nodding a bit at her idea.
"You want me to leave my home?" Sweeney asks, showing no signs of accepting or denying.
"Yeah?" Alice says, not as sure as she was a moment ago with her idea. "Think about it, okay? We're supposed to be leaving by nightfall. I'll see about delaying them, okay?" She says, giving the older man a kiss before leaving.
After that, the day goes as normal, with the exception of an old rival of Sweeney's looking for him, challenging him to a competition. "The town square. One hour. If you do not show up, I win by cowardice." The man says, leaving before Sweeney can either accept or deny the challenge.
"Do it." Jade says, remembering what was supposed to happen had they not come to this time and stopped things from proceeding the way the originally did. "You can beat him, Todd." She says, already knowing the outcome.
"And what good would this bring?" Sweeney asks her, admittedly curious about the challenge since, months before, Sweeney already bested him and that's how Toby started helping Mrs. Lovett.
"To shut him up, once and for all." Jade says, a smirk neither her friends or sister like. "Collect your gear and let's go." She says, walking past him, stopping to tell him something only he can hear. "Maybe you'll impress Alice." She says before resuming her walk, heading for the small room with a smirk on her face.
Twenty minutes later, the group of eight enter the town square, where the man already has a stage set up and two barber chairs on either end. "Good. You chose to fail in public." The man says smugly, watching as more townsfolk arrive and fill up the square. "Today, Mr. Todd has bravely decided to challenge me, again, for my title as best barber." He tells the crowd, ignoring the glares from Jade and Alice. "We will need two volunteers." He says, looking around.
"Screw it. Why not?" Andre says, walking onto the stage and over to Sweeney.
"I volunteer as well." Beck says, glaring at Sweeney as he heads for Sweeney's 'rival'.
"Very good. Let's begin." The man says, getting Beck prepped.
"He's got nothing on you, man." Andre tells Sweeney as he gets prepped, the lather being applied to the thin stubble growing since the last time Sweeney gave him a shave four days ago.
As before, the 'showman' has fun with Sweeney as he gets Beck ready, but putting more effort into applying the shaving lather and shaving Beck's face, as opposed to the last time when Sweeney was done before he made even five strokes of his razor.
Like before, however, Sweeney once again bests him, showing off Andre's clean shaven face, with no cuts or nicks to be seen by those in the front row, as Beck's face is less than half shaven. "Told ya." Andre says, accepting the rag from Sweeney to wipe of the shaving lather that managed to fall onto his shirt as he walks off. "Your new boyfriend is good." He compliments Alice, laughing at her look.
"Let's head back. We have some stuff to finish up." Jade tells them, stopping Alice from countering Andre. "We'll see you at the shop." She tells Sweeney, rolling her eyes when Alice says she's going to help Sweeney clean up.
"That was not fair, Mr. Todd." The other barber says, stomping over to Sweeney and Alice after he finishes Beck's shave. "Your volunteer barely had any facial hair to be shaved, while mine had more than twice yours."
"Hey, you didn't stop them or switch when you saw the volunteers. That's on you." Alice says, cleaning off the razor Sweeney used on Andre's face.
"And who are you?" The man says, smiling at Alice.
"No concern of yours." Sweeney intervenes, stepping between Alice and the man. "You issued the challenge, and you let the volunteers come up. Do not blame me for your failures." He warns, his hand reaching for the spare razor he brought with him, not liking the way the man is staring at Alice.
"This is not the end, Mr. Todd." The man says, turning around and leaving.
"Yes, it is." Sweeney says, turning to face Alice. "Tell your sister to wait one hour after nightfall. Trust me." He tells her as he leads them, Beck long gone by this point, back to the shop.
"Good." Alice says with a smile.
A half hour after night falls, the group of seven, Beck currently missing, head towards the clothing shop Robbie's leading them towards, no one (minus Beck) arguing about Sweeney coming with them.
"This is a horrible idea." Beck says, glaring at the group, from the side of the clothing shop with the time rip/tear Robbie noted.
"Then stay here. I beg of you." Jade says, pushing past him. "This it?" She asks Robbie, looking for the spot Robbie mentioned.
"No, over there. Three feet to your left." Robbie tells her, walking over with Tori and Cat following. "See?" He asks, pointing to where he can see a pair of jeans in the faded light of the store.
"I'll be damned." Jade says, moving to enter.
"Wait. Not there." Robbie says, stopping her. "Step in through here. If you enter there, you'll be standing in a small ditch. I guess this place was a Laundromat or something before it was turned back into a clothing store." He warns, moving Jade a bit closer to the center of the window.
"Got it. Thanks." Jade says, ignoring the stares from the people who know her. "And if you touch me order me around again, you're a dead man." She threatens, stepping over the 'tear' and entering.
Once Jade is clear and tells everyone it's safe, Tori enters next, followed by Cat. "We shouldn't let him come with us." Beck says, glaring at Sweeney as he pushes past Robbie and enters the tear.
"And we shouldn't' have told Beck we were heading home." Alice says, letting Robbie enter the tear before her. "Ready?" She asks Sweeney, heading for where Robbie was standing before he left.
"Yes." Sweeney says, a small smile at Alice.
A minute later, the seven of them are standing in a dimly lit store, hours before they open by the looks of it, Tori internally muses. "We're home." She says, looking around, not recognizing it from the store it was before.
"Yeah, we should probably hide or find a way out." Jade says, seeing security cameras in the corners of the store. "Motion sensored, by the looks of it."
"Yeah, they each have a range of roughly fifteen feet, by my estimate." Robbie says, stopping Cat from entering the line of sight of a camera. "I looked over the layout of this place in Sweeney's time. I think I can get us past the cameras and outside without anything going off." He says, leading them through the store and out a back door, thankfully the back door didn't have a security alarm. "Told ya." He says, smiling once the door closes after the last of them.
"Good. Now that we're away from cameras." Beck says, facing Sweeney. "You don't belong here. Find the tear and go home." He says, confident that he can stop Sweeney if anything happens.
"And we didn't belong in his time, yet we were still accepted there." Alice intervenes, glaring at Beck. "Let's head to the hotel, and we'll just tell Lane and Sikowitz, something. I don't know what we'll say to explain why we were missing for months."
"Uh, hours, actually." Jade says, turning her phone back on since she was the only one to shut it off instead of letting it die. "According to this, it's only been twelve hours since we went missing. And since Sikowitz and Lane said we don't have anywhere we have to be until, technically, later today? We're good."
With that, the group head for the hotel, Sweeney following Alice's lead. Once at the hotel, Beck grabs Sweeney's arm and orders the others to go on ahead, he needs to talk to Sweeney in private. "I will be fine." Sweeney tells Alice, assuring her to go on ahead. "What is the meaning of this, young man?" He asks, pulling his arm free of Beck's grasp.
"Leave Alice alone, asshole." Beck says, pushing Sweeney. "Go home. Now." He says with a dark tone, not liking how close Alice and Sweeney have become, and hating Sweeney even more after catching them almost having sex.
"No." Sweeney says, not moving. "You do not like that Miss West chose me over you. That is unfortunate for you, not me. Now head inside before you lose the chance to regret ordering me." He says, moving to walk past Beck and into the hotel, the shock of the change of London he's used to not hitting him yet.
"Fuck you, Todd." Beck says, grabbing Sweeney and spinning him around, moving to punch Sweeney in the jaw.
"No more warnings or chances." Sweeney says, blocking the punch and kicking Beck, pulling his razor out and opening it before Beck can right himself. "I'll tell the others you went home without your belongings." He says, slitting Beck's throat.
And that's the end of Beck. And this chapter. Will anyone believe Sweeney's story about Beck leaving? And will anyone care? Find out next chapter.
Thank you for reading, I hope you liked it and you review.
And to brenducha, I know you asked for Toby and the man who came to London with Sweeney on the ship to come with them to the future, but since I don't know how to incorporate them into anything, and since I didn't really use them before, I kinda left them out. Hope that's okay?
Blessed Be.