The White Streak

by Morhighan

What happened in those fifteen years that Benjamin Barker remained banished? How did he come to be Sweeney Todd? What happened to his sanity, and how did he get that white streak in his hair?

1. Introduction

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The White Streak

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Introduction

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Benjamin Barker stared forlornly at the bars in his prison. The moonlight washed over his skin and lit the small room before it was extinguished once more by London's dreary cloud cover.

He let out another sigh. Freedom came at dawn. The trial earlier that day had ensured it. He wasn't even allowed to go to the courtroom. That slimy Judge Turpin had told him the official sentence after the trial. The Judge had been the only person allowed to visit him, but Barker could have done without seeing him. Yes, the morrow's freedom brought only sorrow to him, for he was now banished from England, his only home. They'd ship him off to Australia, where he'd never be heard from again.

Judge Turpin had plotted Barker's demise so well, making sure that Barker wasn't even allowed to hold correspondence with his wife, Lucy. He could not even see his child. Once more a melancholy fell upon Barker. No one deserved what he had gotten, so why him?

He sighed once more, the last thing he remembered that night.