Author's Note: Now lookie here people... I know the whole dream thing sucked, but it will get better, because I am continuing this story so it will be way longer. Everyone has bad dreams... even Sweeney Todd. I got the idea after watching The Secret Window. Ehhh that movie still gives me the creeps really badly. But yes I AM continuing this story. Please review and enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sweeney Todd or any characters within it.
And Though I'll Think Of You, I Guess, Until The Day I Die...
He stood and walked over to her, his eyes glazed over from lack of sleep, and she felt herself shake. "Mrs. Lovett, you look quite nice."
"T-thank yeh."
Before he realized what he was doing, he was kissing her neck, then up it to reach her lips. He kissed her long and hard, and pushed her against the wall so she couldn't escape him; and he felt her shake under his touch.
As they finally pulled away from each other he smiled uneasily. "Nellie, when I wake up from this... don't expect me to love you."
She pulled back away from him, her face wary. "Mr. T, you are awake."
Then the door to the shop opened, and in walked the beggar woman.
Sweeney Todd was confused. More confused than he had ever been in his life.
He was having some serious deja vu issues... and it was making him insane.
He chuckled lightly as his thoughts.
'More insane,' He had corrected.
Mrs. Lovett had frozen at the sight at the old beggar woman, and Sweeney knew well enough why. It was his Lucy, wasn't it? Or had that been all his imagination?
"Benny Barker..." The beggar woman whispered. "I need my Benny."
"Lucy..." He stated. "Bloody hell, what has become of me."
"Mr. T, I can explain!" Mrs. Lovett frantically tried. "She poisened 'erself and went insane! I thought i' was only for the best!"
He ignored her protests as he gripped Lucy's fragile arm in his hand. "My love."
"Benjamin!" Lucy exclaimed, clinging to his arm. "My Benny lives!"
Sweeney narrowed his eyes and tugged his wife close to himself. "No love, he is gone."
"Wot?" Lucy mumbled, pulling herself away from him.
"Mr. T, your Lucy is dead! This woman isn' the same ol' one yeh married!" Mrs. Lovett searched frantically for the words she wanted to speak to save herself, but everything began coming out in mumbles. "Mr. T I love you, please!"
"Calm down Nellie." Sweeney spoke. "I'm not going to kill you this time."
She cocked her head to the side and frowned. "This time?"
Sweeney ignored her words and stared down at Lucy's trembling form. She looked so different... so much more pale, and so much more disgusting. She had spent almost fifteen years on the streets, and god only knew what was wrong with her.
But that wasn't the problem.
She wasn't the same when he looked into her eyes. She wasn't filled with anything anymore, except the emptiness when she spoke his name. The arsenic had caused everything she had once known, to dissappear.
Including himself.
"Lucy Barker?"
She nodded. "Benjamin Barker?"
Sweeney shook his head. "No. He is dead, love."
Frowning, Lucy stepped away from him. "I don't want you, I want you to bring me my Benny!"
"I can't. And you Lucy..." Sweeney garbbed the back of her neck and exposed the thing flesh of the front of it. "Why did you try to kill yourself? You left poor Johanna all alone-"
"I left 'er with the witch!" She pointed towards Nellie's thin form. "But she sent 'er away!"
Mrs. Lovett shook her head. "No, not at all! The Beadle came an' took 'er from me and Albert the night she poisened 'erself."
"Liar! Liar!"
"You still left Johanna, with no intentions of coming back." Sweeney clenched his hand around his wife's throat, anger dangerously rising in his eyes. "My Lucy would never have done that."
"Lemme go, crazy ol' demon!" Lucy screamed, clawing at his hands.
"No." He simply stated, clinging his hand tighter around her delicate throat. "Johanna is stuck with that vile judge now, because you were too much of a fool to come back to your daughter after you were raped!"
"'ow did you know I was..." Lucy whispered.
"Because once upon a time, I was Benjamin Barker." Sweeney growled. "But he's been gone for over fifteen years, Lucy. He isn't going to come back, and obviously neither are you."
Nellie stared in awe at the barbers harsh words. She imagined all hell would have broken loose the moment he had found out Lucy was alive... but he seemed more angry at his wife than at her.
"Wot are you doin'?" Lucy asked as Sweeney grabbed his razor from his belt.
"Helping you, love." Sweeney whispered, exposing her neck once again.
"W-wait." Nellie managed to mutter before he took the swipe of the blade across his wife's throat. "Will this truly make yeh happy, Mr. T?"
He lowered the razor and narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"
"Everything yeh've lived for since yeh were deported, was fo' 'er. If yeh do this Mr. Todd, everything yeh knew before will have no purpose." Nellie couldn't believe her own words... she was protecting the very woman who stood between her and Mr. Todd now.
"She isn't my wife anymore, Nellie." He whispered, staring at his wife's lifeless eyes. "And if I let her go now, she'll go straight to the Beadle."
Nellie walked closer to him, gripping his arm tightly. "Yeh can't just kill 'er."
Sweeney closed his eyes, enjoying the warmth of Nellie's hand on his bare arm. "Fine. You're in charge of watching over her and making sure she doesn't leave."
He released his grip on Lucy and walked away from her, the anger still bubbling inside of him. "I need to get to the judge still."
"To free Johanna." Nellie whispered, grabbing Lucy's arm. "Come on now, let's get yeh cleaned up."
As Nellie left his shop, Sweeney felt himself begin to calm down. He had his Lucy back now, but everything she was before was gone... she wasn't the same person, just like him. What he didn't understand, was why Mrs. Lovett insisted on protecting her. She had hated Lucy from the beginning, hadn't she?
"Mr. T I love you, please!"
She had finally said it to him... hadn't she? What did it matter when he had his supposed "deceased" wife in the house? He was still married.
"Bloody hell. What am I supposed to do now?"
End Note: Perlease review and tell me what you think? Lucy is going to live with them... ahhh! This should be more interesting than I imagined. Oh and off topic, I watched From Hell yesterday. Anyone else seen it? Jack the Ripper... creepy dude :8
