Hey, welcome to chapter 5 of this fanfiction! :) sorry about the late update. school started and I still have hw to finish X) anyway, enjoy! Thank you to CadyD and Jenni for reviewing.

Katie stared at the silver blade with wide eyes as Pirelli's body fell to the ground with a loud thud, blood spewing from his jugular. She let out a small gasp as Sweeney let his razor slide to the floor. Upon hearing the small noise, his head snapped up and met her gaze. Crap, it was Katie. How much did she see?

"Y-you," she stuttered.

"Katie, it's not what it looks like," Sweeney said, trying to calm her down. He edged towards her slowly crooning, "Come here, my love. Nothing to fear."

Katie scrambled back in a hurry.

"S-stay back!" she yelled at him, backing up against the door. Sweeney kept protruding on the girl like a predator stalking its prey. Her hand fumbled with the door knob as she ran out the door and down the staircase. Mrs. Lovett and Toby walking out of the shop as she ran by.

"Love, where are ya going?" Nellie asked. She didn't stop to reply, she bolted past them and around the corner. Sweeney came out of his shop above.

"I've got to find her," he said, hurriedly walking down the staircase.

"Agreed."

Katie ran as fast as her legs could take her, dodging bystanders and jumping ledges. She had to get away from there as fast as possible. Her legs slipped out from under her as she rounded an alley corner and she tumbled to the ground. She struggled up, rushed down the alley and hid behind a small dumpster. Her breathing was uneven as she clutched her legs tightly to her body, rocking back and forth. She couldn't believe her adoptive father was a crazed murderer! Katie buried her face in her arms and wept.

Sweeney walked around London for hours looking for her. What if she told someone? What if the constable is heading towards the parlor this minute? He shook the thoughts from his head and continued searching. It began to get darker as he rounded Maple Way. He searched in every corner of every street, but still couldn't find her. He was just about to give up when he heard faint weeping sounds coming from the alley besides him.

Could it be? He thought.

He rounded the bend, the sole of his boots making hollow noises as he walked down the dark alleyway. The noises were getting louder as he got closer to a brown dumpster. Sweeney peeked behind it and saw a pale girl curled up into a ball crying. Katie. He breathed a sigh of relief and walked around the dumpster towards her. Katie's head looked up for a brief moment to see who was staring at her, to find the cold dark eyes of her stepfather. She screamed, stood and backed up against the wall, bawling her eyes out.

"Get away from me!" She yelled. "Get back! Don't touch me!"

Sweeney ignored her rants and proceeded forward. She finally just gave up and slid down the wall into a heap of tears.

"Calm down," he said in a soothingly rough voice. "I'm not going to hurt you."

"Yah, like you didn't hurt that man in your parlor?" She spat at him. He recoiled a bit at the young girls harsh tone, no one had ever talked to him like that before, but he stood his ground.

"I can explain."

"Alright then," she said, eerily calm. "Explain."

Sweeney strode over and sat next to her. She attempted to jump to the left, but hit the dumpster instead. More tears streamed down her face as she held her now sore head.

"I won't say anything until you settle down," he said sternly. A minute or two of silence passed before he continued saying, "Are you settled?"

She nodded, still clutching her head.

"Now, I don't want you telling anyone else, the only other person who knows is your Mum. Understand?"

Katie nodded again, showing him he had her full attention by turning her body towards him.

"Fifteen years ago," he began. "I was a different man. A naïve, vulnerable, stupid man. That man's name was Benjamin Barker. He was happy though, married to a beautiful woman, an absolutely gorgeous child, nothing could seem to go wrong, until that one unforgettable day in the marketplace."

Katie made a small sniffle. "What happened?"

"He was transferred away on a false charge."

"He wasn't proven guilty in court?"

"He didn't have a trial. They just shipped him off to Botany Bay, a prison on the coast of Australia. It was cold and hard. No one there took a second glance in your direction. Fifteen years of misery and pain created me, Sweeney Todd, but I'm back to get revenge."

"Revenge on who?"

"The Judge of course. When I came back, your Mum let me take back my old room and told me that the Judge had raped my wife. She then said that it drove her to poison herself and that the man stole my daughter."

Katie could see a sad gleam in his eye when he finished the sentence. They looked big, almost like a lost puppy's. As if on cue, she put her arms around him and pulled him into a deep embrace, just as a small tear escaped his eye.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "I know what it's like to lose someone you love." They pulled back from the hug and looked each other in the eye.

"What's your story?" he asked. She told him her tragic tale. The pan, the fire, everything. When she finally finished, Sweeney understood everything. Why her eyes were dark and lifeless, why when she first walked into the shabby pie shop her smile widened, and why she was willing to help make pies just so she could stay.

The next move he made shocked him. He reached his arm over her shoulder and pulled her into another hug, planting a small kiss on the top of her head. He already lost one daughter, he wasn't going to lose another.

"Come on," he said getting up and reaching out a hand to her. "We should go home."

I'm sorry if Sweeney seemed a bit OC but I needed the Benjamin in him to come out lol. :) R&R please!