Sweeney Todd: Insanity Within

Sweeney Todd: Insanity Within (Part Two)

~ Disclaimer- I do not own anything of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ~

There Todd stood, right in the center of the room with his wife in his arms. He almost killed her earlier. Surprisingly and strangely, the barber's eyes, his once merciless, dark eyes, began to water up.

"Ben?" Lucy cried. She greeted her husband back with a hug. She had thought he had died, ever since he had been dragged away to hell, she had believed her husband had died. Of course her husband didn't look like what he once was.

"I'm here, Lucy. I promise, I will leave your side, I will never hurt you. Never." Todd then could sense someone standing at the door. Todd took Lucy's hand and turned around. Mr. Fogg, armed with a gun.

'Kill him. He's standing in your way from freedom. He'll tear you and Lucy apart.'

"... D- don't ma- make any moves," Mr. Fogg stuttered. The barrel, aimed right for the barber. His hands were shaking; never knowing when the trigger will be pulled. Todd slowly raised his hands to surrender. "N- ....now, all I... need is for you to take a chill pill, relax, and walk away from the lady." Mr. Fogg then cautiously reached into his jacket's pocket, the gun still aimed at Todd. But Mr. Fogg's focus wasn't aimed on Todd, and so the barber took advantage of the moment.

Todd looked to Lucy, her somber, sweet, innocent eyes. 'I'm sorry, Lucy.' The barber then quickly reached down to his ankle where his hand met the body of a pistol. Todd snatched the weapon and handled it tight, then aimed right for Mr. Fogg. Mr. Fogg pulled out of his pocket a large needle, but by the time he looked up to face the maddened man, a bullet had already been triggered.

The barber had shot the gun with his eyes shut tight. He didn't want to see the look on his wife's face when she saw that he had killed a man. Usually killing a man was nothing to Todd, but killing a man next to the innocent love of his life was more than a sin. When Todd opened his eyes the first he saw was no the reaction on Lucy's face, but a hole piercing through the body of Mr. Fogg. Blood at first didn't begin to poor. Mr. Fogg dropped his gun and the needle. His hand reached for the wound and his eyes looked up at the barber.

Todd didn't want to kill him, but what other choice did he have? Todd didn't want to do what he had did, but he never wanted to be pulled from Lucy again. Todd then looked to Lucy and dropped his gun.

"... I didn't mean to..." he choked out.

Lucy didn't look too horrified, but she was astonished.

"Ben? You... you..." Before Lucy could finish her statement of him killing Mr. Fogg, Todd wrapped his arms around her and repeatedly whispered in her ear sorry.

Todd then turned back around and found Mr. Fogg face down on the ground.

"Benjamin! You just killed a man! You just..." Lucy cried in a whisper, she looked at Mr. Fogg then Todd and found his hand riddled in blood. "... Ben... you're hand..."

Todd looked down to his hand and shoved it in his pocket. "Lucy, please, please just forget this and let's get out of here, we have a chance and I am NOT losing you again."

"Your arm? ...Did they... shoot you?" Lucy went and grabbed his left arm and examined the cloth tied tight around the wound. Todd flinched and moved his arm from her gentle touch.

"...Um yea... but I'm fine, Lucy, please let's go and I'll explain everything!" Todd tugged on Lucy's arm, not intending to hurt her. He had been locked in the asylum for almost a year and lost the last of his gentle touch. He wanted to leave the asylum, but not alone. The barber refused to leave without his wife, his wife whom he hadn't seen for a good fifteen years.