Chapter 40: Grudge Match
Note: This is the first time Sweeney and Nellie clash in the endgame. Again the fight can't be too intense as there are rules here. The M rating is a precaution. Anyway I am going to cut to the chase in this chapter and Sweeney will be arriving after a short Nellie POV. They won't hurt each other too badly in the fight, and Lucy will not know a thing, or will she? Well here we go readers.
(Nellie's POV.) It was late, and I knew he was coming, knew he would be here soon to kill me. But it would be him that would be dead. I found a way to keep the half of the razors I had nice and sharp for him. My son's namesake would be dead, and I would be able to claim self defense, and it would finally be all over. I would love to see his precious Lucy's face when he does not return home.
I had never been this sadistic before, but Lucy caused all of this, and Sweeney tried to kill me and killed Toby. I wanted them to suffer. Is this what happened to him? Did his quest for revenge corrupt his soul, and was it corrupting mine? It didn't matter though, I needed to kill the barber. I could almost feel that he was about here, and I needed to get ready.
(Sweeney's POV.) I pulled up the front of the building in the carriage. I claimed out, making sure both my razors were ready. My friends craved fresh blood, and I was going to feed them. I looked into the window and could not see her, but I knew she knew I was coming. What would happen if I walked in there?
Would she attack me from behind with a meat cleaver, knock me out with a rolling pin? I could not wait out here forever, as I had to kill her and then head home. I pulled out a rock I brought with me from the forest. With a few hard smashes I heard the lock break. I threw the door open so hard it bounced off the wall. I scanned the room for the woman.
"I know you are here bitch, show yourself." I walked forward, continuing to scan the room for her. "Come out, come out, wherever you are my pet." I could begin to feel my temperature rise as I began to lose my patience with the baker. "Come out and face me coward." Just as I took another step forward I felt cold metal press into my neck, as I felt an arm wrap around my chest.
"You are a foolish, stupid man Todd," I heard her whisper in my ear. "You think you frighten me, love," I snarled. "Time to go to the devil Mr Todd." Before the woman began to swipe the blade I grabbed the arm that was around my chest and rammed the back of my shoulder into her, knocking her off and away from me. I yanked a razor out of my holster and spun to face her as she steadied herself. "You won't win that easily, my pet."
We circled each other holding the razor we both had pulled out tightly. "My late husband Robert helped me prepare myself for a moment like this. I can fight you bastard, and I am stronger than I was before." I rushed at her fast and she rammed her knee into my shin. I stumbled forward and she got behind me grabbing the wrist that wielded my razor and wrenched my arm against my back pinning me into the wall with surprising strength. I'll admit I was caught off guard by her strength, but if she thought she had me overpowered she was dead wrong.
With a burst of strength I wrenched my arm out of her grasp and spun around again. She tried to swing her, which was once mine, razor at me but I grabbed her wrist and began to squeeze it in an attempt to make her drop the razor. She tried to pull her wrist out of my grip but I held tightly. Wrapping my arm around her waist to hold her to me I squeezed as hard as I could. I was struggling to keep her in my grip as she wiggled and pulled against me. Without warning she stomped hard on my foot causing my grip to loosen, and before I could get it back she wrenched herself free from my grasp.
I was frustrated. When it came to raw strength I still had more of it but she is clearly a lot stronger then she was before. I would do my best to not underestimate her. I lunged at her again and our blades clashed against each other with a loud clang. It was almost a macabre dance and we tried to get around each other and swung again and again, our blades constantly clashed into each other. I pressured her backwards and managed to knock her on the couch in the middle of the room.
I pinned her down and tried to bring my blade to her throat but she stopped it with hers. We glared at each other murderously. our arms quivered as we struggled to overpower each other. I could feel after about a minute of struggling her arm was starting to give, so I kept up the pressure. I could see she was starting to sweat and my blade was approaching her throat. With a groan she lurched her body to the side and escaped from me.
I snarled in frustration as I leapt back to my feet. We began to circle each other again until I realized we had been fighting for about an hour. With a quick burst of speed I rammed my shoulder into her and knocked her down on her back. I lunged on her and tried to attack her with my blade again, but she escaped me again. She rushed around me as I stood and grabbed her rolling pin. She rushed me and tried to smash me upside the head with it.
Pain shot through my arm as it blocked the heavy blow with it. I stumbled back a little, the rolling pin, combined with her own strength made the pain quite intense. I had to leave this fight on a stalemate, I had to get back home before Lucy awakened. "You bitch you are a dead woman as next time I'll kill you." "GO TO HELL!," she roared. I rushed to my carriage and took off for home, as the sun would rise soon.
(Lucy's POV.) I woke up to find that Sweeney was still sound asleep. It was weird as for the last few days I would wake up before him. He seemed to be sweaty this time. Something was going on. I had an idea on what to do to find out what Benjamin was hiding from me.
Note: Sorry the fight was kind of weak and anticlimactic because of how it ended. But as you could see with the ending I am planning something. Outside of a little dwelling on their fight, the next chapter will mainly be fluffy filler as a breather before the end. That said Lucy is clearly suspicious that there is something wrong now. If you are not interested in any kind of filler the chapter after it as I said before will be the final battle. Until next time readers.
