Illusions That Confine Us
Chapter Eight
Mrs. Lovett didn't know what to say, and if she were to say anything she wasn't too sure on what he would do.
What did she want now? Sweeney thought annoyingly as he stared out the window at the treacherous sea.
"Yes?" He asked quietly, his back still turned to her.
"I just wanted to thank you for being civil at supper last night is s'all." She replied quickly, failing to conceal the real reason why she followed him back to his room.
He then turned around and stared at her unusually quiet self before him. "Is that all?"
She took her hands off of her hips and nervously started to fumble with her fingers as her eyes dropped to the ground.
"Well get on with it." Mr. Todd said.
"Did you-" She mumbled, "Did ya really mean what ya said?"
"Wha-" He paused for a second before realizing what she meant, "Yes."
She smiled at the fact that Mr. Todd didn't find her undesirable as she thought before frowning when she remembered the other thing he said to her last night.
"-you just have to understand that we could never be."
His words, she knew, were meant to be somewhat kind. But to her it was one of the coldest things he could have ever said to her especially, "I don't love you."
"Why can't you just accept the fact that I love you?" Mrs. Lovett questioned.
"Because I don't love you!" He growled angrily, he was getting a bit tired with practically having the same conversation everyday. "How many times do I have to tell you?!" He yelled, "I don't love you Mrs. Lovett!"
"Mrs. Todd." She mumbled.
"What?"
"It's Mrs. Bloody Todd."
He shook his head, "You know that I didn't marry you because I loved you, and you know I never can. I love Lucy, I will always love Lucy, and I'm afraid that you're not her."
"Why did you marry me then?" Mrs. Lovett snapped, placing her hands back on her hips. "It didn't have to be this way, you know you could have left on a ship somewhere. You know you didn't have to stay with me."
Mrs. Lovett had just reached Sweeney Todd's boiling point.
His mouth was now gaping open, eyes wide and infuriated.
"Because I need you." He spat, pacing around the room. "I felt like I owed it to you, you helped me with everything… And I-" He paused to look her straight in her eyes, "I don't love you but I need you."
She looked up at him with wide eyes, looking like she was filled with so much emotion for this man- Anger, love, frustration, need…
"That doesn't change anything." She spoke suddenly, dropping her hands from her hips again and looking up at him sadly, "You only need me because I am the only person left in this world that could ever love you."
The expression on the former barber's face had changed from frustrated to bewildered within a matter of seconds after Mrs. Lovett left, slamming the door behind her.
Sometimes admitting things out loud gave your words of admittance the illusion that they were indeed as true as you meant them.
But in Sweeney Todd's case he wasn't sure if they were exactly facts set in stone, so he felt guilty and had the urge to apologize.
Something entirely out of character for a man such as himself.
Later on in the afternoon, after hours of contemplating whether or not to apologize, Sweeney Todd caved and soon found himself walking up behind her in the kitchen.
Mrs. Lovett was startled when she felt his cold fingertips touch her shoulder, but she relaxed when she realized it was only him.
He noticed that she was ignoring him the second she went back to chopping up carrots.
"Mrs-" He stopped knowing that calling her that would probably make her angrier with him than she already was and cleared his throat, "Pet."
"Hmm?" She grumbled annoyingly.
He sighed knowing that this wasn't going to be easy, especially when she was obviously being stubborn.
"I wanted to apologize for earlier." He replied after clearing his throat.
Suddenly she paused and rested her hand on the counter, tilting the knife in her hand as she did so. She moved her other hand on the counter, as if to steady herself and exhaled.
"Sorry ain't gonna make anything better, it's s'not going to change anything." Mrs. Lovett began, "Besides, we both know you're only saying that so I'll keep treatin' ya like the bloody baby you are."
He tried to ignore her harsh words knowing that some of what she said was probably true and grumbled, "I am."
"No you're not." She stated firmly before resuming back to cutting up carrots.
Mr. Todd then tried to turn her around by putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Don't you bloody touch me." Mrs. Lovett mumbled as she tried to get his hands off of her.
His patience with her was now holding onto a thread.
"Will you look at me woman?!" Sweeney barked, causing her to spin around abruptly.
Mr. Todd didn't noticed the knife Mrs. Lovett still had in her right hand and walked into it, causing him to clench down in pain.
Mrs. Lovett dropped the knife that was now covered in her husband's blood and walked a few steps over to Mr. Todd, who was clutching onto his wound.
"Mista T, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to-"
Mrs. Lovett gasped when she saw that the bottom left side of Sweeney's shirt was now soaked in blood.
"Come with me dear, come on." Mrs. Lovett exclaimed nervously as Mr. Todd put his arm around her so she could help him to her room.
Mrs. Lovett put him on her bed and fumbled around her room looking for something to bandage his wound with. She grabbed an old rag and leaned over him, unbuttoning his shirt to reveal a deep cut on his left abdomen.
"Stay with me love, stay with me…" Mrs. Lovett pleaded as she wiped the sweat from her forehead, unknowingly smearing his blood on herself as she did so.
The last thing Sweeney Todd remembered before blacking out was the frantic look upon her face as she tried so desperately to bandage him, not to mention the piercing pain in his stomach as he fell into a deep sleep.
Oh my, and the worst thing is, they can't go to a doctor!
I hope he's alright…
Tomorrow at 2:00pm I am going to see Sweeney Todd the musical! Yay :D
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