We could have a life, us two.. (Completed)

Reunion

"Father.." Sweeney held her tightly when she was crying, and stroked her back up and down, so much had changed in a short time for everyone, he himself had a hard time getting used and adjusting to it.

"Mother? Where is mother?" She asked him with hopeful eyes, even though she was shedding tears. That was when the barber and the bakers eyes met. Sweeney took a breath.

"Your mother has died, poisoned herself, she couldn't take it and lost her sanity.." He spoke with difficulty because of the lump in his throat and when he heard Johanna's cries grew louder, he swallowed and looked at Eleanor her eyes were also filled with tears he saw the guilt in her eyes, her lips were quivering.

He couldn't say he killed her, nor did he want her to remember her as someone that had become a beggar. It hurted him and bringing up Lucy hurted him even more, he felt guilty, very guilty. He hadn't seen his daughter grow up, couldn't be with his wife, lost 15 years for something he didn't do, 15 years of his life for nothing was thrown away.

"Oh poor mother.." she cried in his embrace.

Nellie swallowed the lump in her throat and standed up to leave the two alone and go to her bedroom she didn't know that the barber was going to explain Lucy's death that way she thought maybe he would blame her for what she had done, she was thinking it was best to leave the two alone.

"What is going to happen now father?" Johhana looked at her father after crying for a long time.

"Our priority is your safety Johanna" Sweeney didn't know till then if he had fatherly feelings, but he wanted her to be safe and live a happy life in freedom.

"Do I have to go? Or can't you come with us?" She asked desperately and looked at him with her innocent dark brown eyes.

"I can't I have a job to finish, I'd like you to stay but it's for your safety, besides you fell in love with that boy. You want a future with him, don't you?" He couldn't tell her wat his job was, all she'd been through was hard enough he wanted to save her from the truth what the real Sweeney he had become and on the otherside he had a baker he couldn't leave her alone he didn't want anything bad happen to her.

She nodded shyly and didn't ask any more questions, they sat in each other's embrace in silence for a while. Johanna wanted a life with Anthony she was in love with him, but she wanted her family that she never had with her, she hadn't had time to get to know her father well.

Eleanor heard a knock at the door her after a while but she didn't look and she heard someone step into her bedroom as she was crying on her bed "Toby not now.." she spoke assuming it was him. She turned her head to see Sweeney standing there and quickly wiped her tears away and tried to hide that she was crying and she came in a  sitting position on her bed.

"Why are you crying?" he came closer to her and could see her tears clearly. Eleanor quickly realized that her attempt to hide her tears had failed. "N-nothing.." she didn't want him to know that she was crying for Lucy and Johanna, she knew he was still mad at her about that, and didn't want to remind him.

"Nothing? I don't want you lie to me Eleanor" He was serious and his voice was stern. "I just feel bad for Johanna." she couldn't hold back her tears as they fell from her eyes that were already red from crying the whole time "I'm so sorry Sweeney" she said between her sobs.

His face changed when he realized what she was talking about. He shut his eyes and sighed, as he opened his eyes back and looked at her, he turned aroud and steped out of her bedroom.

Eleanor's crying grew louder she knew he would never forgive her for hiding that Lucy was alive.

In the evening they heard the piano being played, Johanna was laying sadly on her bed after the conversation with Sweeney, she was between going and staying and didn't know what to choose, she wanted to stay with her father who she had only just found but then again she wanted to go away with the love of her life, away from the possibility that the judge might find her.