Blind eye

2- real meat pies

He woke up, back on the sofa with a pounding head ache, it was dark and cold in the room, he sat up straight and felt dizzy, but after a while that feeling left.
He peered out the window, pitch black.
Was what happened real?
How long have I been out for?
What even happened?!
These thoughts made he's head hurt even more so he tried to think a little less.
He looked down at his ankle, still in bandages but not hurting either. He heard a noise in the kitchen and his head jolted and stared straight at the doorway, he never wanted to admit it, but he is scared of the dark, he just doesn't like how he never knows what's lurking in it.
He heard slow, faint foot steps, and saw a small light start to appear. At this point he was sh*t scared and his heart was pounding as hard as his head.
He saw a face peer around the corner.
Mrs Lovett
He sighed in relief and fell back in the chair.
"You awake Mr T?"
"You scared the sh*t outta me don't do that again!" He said in an angry, but soft tone.
"Well, guess I got my own back on you then." Mrs Lovett chuckled.
"What the bloody hell happened any way ?!" Spat Sweeney.
"Erm... Well, I er..."
"You gonna say or not because I wanna know!" He shouted.
"I... Had to stop you some how... I mean like."
"Are you the reason for my pounding headache?" He rubbed the back of his head and felt a stinging sensation
"Ouch!" He hissed
"You alright?" She ran over to the sofa.
"Just tell me what you done!" He sat up a bit more and stared her in the eyes.
"I, hit you..."
"You hit me plenty of times!"
"With a bottle..."
He felt like he should be angry but he couldn't.
If she didn't hit him with that bottle he could've ended up killing the boy.
"Mr T?"  Whispered Mrs Lovett
"Get out..."
"I-"
"PLEASE!" He said in a much louder tone.
She exited quietly but in the door way she looked back and muttered
"He ran away..."
And she left, leaving Sweeney in some sort of shock and some sort of sadness.
He just laid back down slowly and stared at the ceiling.
What had he done?
He just made the only person she loved leave!
He looked at the clock 2:10
He sighed and tried to fall asleep.
Mrs Lovett walked into her bedroom with tears swelling in her eyes, she wanted the poor boy to be safe and come home, she wanted to hug him and keep him warm by the fire. She fell onto the bed face first and started to sob in her pillow. She felt so mad at Sweeney but knew that it was just his feelings that took over his body. She didn't bother changing into her nightgown and she just cried herself to sleep.

•~Morning~•

Mrs Lovett woke up, she felt weak but decided to get up and get washed. She went into her bathroom and looked in the mirror. Her eyes still pink from crying. She couldn't stop thinking about Toby and she was still mad at Sweeney and was sick of his anger towards her so she got her self cleaned up and went to the living room to give him a piece of her mind.
She took a deep breath and opened the living room door, she opened her mouth to start shouting but she stopped and realised that he wasn't there. She expected him to be in his shop because he wasn't there so she marched through the shop, outside and up the stairs.
She basically kicked the door open and again saw nothing but the chair and the dressing table. She was very confused to where he could be, then she thought
Please don't say he's ran away as well!
She started calling his name
"Mr T? Mr T where are you?"
She got no reply and again, tears started to drip from her eyes.
Why does everyone hate me?!
Why can't I have just one person to talk to, to help me ?!
She ran back into the shop and into her room.

Sweeney walked down the streets he hadn't walked down for 15 years. The ones that he had once walked with his Lucy. The thought of Lucy had been dying away recently but he didn't know why.
"He must be here, he's got to be." He muttered to himself
He walked for at least 15 more minuets and came by a forest. He went into the forest and found a lake with an old shed like house.
I heard him say he comes here when he's upset when he was talking with Mrs Lovett.
He walked past the muddy lake and looked at the old stone building.
The same place Mrs Lovett went if she was sad.
He sighed and slowly opened the wooden door.
"Toby? Toby are you in here? I promise I won't hurt you."
He saw Toby curled up in a ball in the corner of the small room, crying, and scared.
"Toby I won't come any closer to you if you don't want me to ok?"
Toby just sat there looking at him with scared eyes.
"Mrs Lovett is missing you a lot you know, she has been crying all night and she really want you to go back."
He shook his head and pushed himself up against the wall more.
"Toby, if you go back I promise I will keep my distance from you, Mrs Lovett and any alcohol."
He relaxed a little and wiped his eyes.
"I didn't want to hurt you, and remember Mrs Lovett stopped me from doing any harm to you, come on lad, go home, Mrs Lovett will make you a large meal and tuck you in your nice warm bed."
"H-how did you find me?" Stuttered Toby
"I knew you would come here, Mrs Lovett used to come here when she was sad as well when she was your age, and you and Mrs Lovett are so close, so I came here."
"P-please don't hurt m-me."
"Now Toby, I already promised I wouldn't, now come with me and I'll take you to Mrs Lovett and we can get you in some clean clothes and give you a nice warm bowl of that soup."
"Ok-kay but let me follow you because I'm not to sure on the way home."
(More like he didn't want to walk in front of Sweeney in case he attacked him when he wasn't looking.)
"Ok, but don't run off again alright?"
"Yes s-sir." He slowly stood up and they made their way back home.

(30 minuets later)

Mrs Lovett had been crying for the past half hour and she cried so much she had ran out of tears so it was just sniffs and noises. She heard a knock at the shop door and quickly wiped her nose and walked out of her room.
She was expecting a customer wanting a pie but all her meat had ran out because Sweeney had stopped killing people.
She walked into the shop and opened the door.
"TOBY!" She screamed in excitement and gave him a massive hug.
Sweeney just stood there watching them embrace each other and a small smile grew on his face.
He started to make his way up to his shop but Mrs Lovett stopped him and said
"Mr T?"
"Huh?"
"I'm sorry..."
There was an awkward silence while they just stared at each other.
"Me too..." He broke the silence and carried on walking up to his shop. His ankle felt better but not 100%.
Mrs Lovett turned back around to see Toby sitting at a table in dirty clothes.
"Let's go change your clothes then we can give you something to eat eh?"
Toby nodded and they walked to his room.

Sweeney sat in his chair waiting for the first customer to arrive, it took a while but that morning about 6 people came. But this time, Sweeney didn't kill any of them, he just gave them a clean shave and off they went.

At lunch Mrs Lovett was confused how he had not killed any one so she went up stairs to ask what was up.
She went upstairs and saw Sweeney shaving a gentleman and she waited until he left to enter.
"Something wrong Mr T?"
"No why?"
"It's just, you ain't killed any customers today and I haven't got any meat for my pies..."
"Don't you have enough money now to buy real meat?"
She thought how much easier it would be to buy meat and any trace of human meat could be gone.
"Good idea, I will go buy some." She quickly rushed out the door and left. Sweeney made his way down to the pie shop because he was a little hungry and as he entered he saw Toby eating some cookies. They didn't say a word to each other when Sweeney was making himself some toast but before he left to go back up stairs he said
"Hope your feeling better now lad." And then made his way back.
Mrs Lovett rushed to the market and saw the abandoned stage where she first saw Toby. She tried to block out the thought of the boys past and headed towards the meat section. She thought of how different it would be to make all these different pies ! Chicken, pork, mince! Oh all the varieties! She bought every type of meat she thought she could make pies out of and basically ran back to the bakery.
She entered the shop and saw Toby sitting there with his toy horse just fiddling with it. She caught his attention and asked
"Where did you go m'am?"
"I went to buy more meat for the pies." She replied.
"This is the first time I have seen you go shopping for weeks!"
"I usually go shopping in the evening when your out playing with your friends..." She lied and placed the ingredients on the counter.
She was getting all her knifes and tools out to start when she heard Toby say
"You are finally making REAL meat pies..."
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