The Moon on a String

Lucy Barker was gloomy London's single ray of sunshine, a woman whose husband constantly made her feel as though the world, the moon, and the stars were all her's for the taking. But that light began to falter as she was forced to watch her husband be ripped away from her and their child on nothing but a false charge, a lustful move made by a jealous beast who would not stop until he won what was rightfully his. It flickered as she was led into a false sense of security, promised her husband might be released if she just come and visit for the night, only to be taken advantage of. It finally faded and died off when she attempted suicide, wanting nothing more than to be released from her own personal hell. Now bedridden, Lucy is hardly able to find the willpower to raise her own daughter without the help of Mrs. Lovett, a strange case of a woman who took it upon herself to move in just downstairs, hoping to not only look after her friend but to earn them a little extra money as well.

Now, after all these years, her husband has finally returned home to her, and although it is the same Benjamin she knows and loves, Lucy is a different woman from who she was all those lifetimes ago. Not only must she struggle to recover from the trauma that plagues her every waking hour, but the judge has come knocking once again to try and court her in pure desperation, and it becomes clear to Lucy that as the days grow colder, Mrs. Lovett is beginning to see her husband as something more than a mere 'friend.'

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a sweeney todd story where lucy is the one who's changed and hardened and benjamin never became sweeney

based on tim burton's adaptation of stephen sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"