Well here's a little treat for all of my readers. A story about Sweeney and Nellie in their youth. Unfortunely I do not own Sweeney Todd... if I did the story would have actually happened like this.
Sweeney Todd: Before the Demon Emerged
Chapter 1: Remembering Love
London, 1846
Nellie Lovett sat in her bedroom staring at an old photo of her and a man who refused to exist any longer… Benjamin Barker. At the time they were both so happy and carefree; they were just content to spend the day together. Nellie longed to have that man back and have life return to the way it was before he met Lucy all those years ago. Currently, the young man that she had spent so many summers with and considered her best friend was replaced by Sweeney Todd, a man who only had one thing on his mind… revenge. Thinking that she might actually catch him in one of his "good" moods, though they were very seldom seen, Nellie figured that she'd head upstairs to his shop.
Once upstairs, Nellie found Sweeney sitting in his barber chair with his eyes shut. Is he just thinking or is he actually asleep, she thought. Oh, who am I fooling… he has to be thinking. Sweeney Todd doesn't sleep. Nellie debated the idea of walking just a little bit closer to him just to see if, by some miracle, he was sleeping. Realizing that it might just be safer for her if she left him be; she decided to just leave the room. She started to walk back towards the door and glanced back at the man sitting in the chair. She realized then that the feelings she had for him when they were growing up together were starting to arise once again. He looks so peaceful sitting there, I can't even look at that and see Mr. T; I look at that and see the Benjamin I used to know.