Hi again! I'm here with a new story for you all! Hope you like it!

This is a Sweeney/OC story, taking place after the fateful night when the judge died. This is slightly AU because there's no Mrs. Lovett in the story. Now, do not get mad at me but this couldn't work with the movie's story line. I had to leave her out of the story.

Now, on with the prologue, my lovelies! And don't forget to review! XD

Disclaimer: I do not own Sweeney Todd!I only own my OC!

Illuminate My Darkness

Prologue

Loneliness. This is a word a lot hate and others love. It's not only a word though. It has a meaning that many people never realize or know. It's not a nice feeling but for some is the only way out of hurt and betrayal and even love.

Sweeney Todd never knew he was lonely. It was one of those pitiful emotions that humans felt and he was determined that he was no longer one. That was until he met her. She wasn't strong like him but she had a heart. She was not brave or talkative but she was his only company during long sleepless nights. She was not beautiful like his Lucy or his daughter but she had kind eyes. The kind of eyes that captivate you the moment you look into them. She was an angel he was a demon. She was tiny and fragile but she was the only one that could handle being in the same room with him and face his quick change of moods and emotions.

She claimed she knew nothing about life but she had felt pain like he had. She said she did not remember her past but she was able to fix his future with a simple broken smile and a 'Good morning Mr. Todd'.

He claimed that he felt nothing but she knew it was a lie. She knew that under the hard exterior of that cold and for some heartless man, was someone kind and good. He often wondered how she could say that for he never, at least not in the beginning, had showed anything but coldness to her. He knew he was able to hurt her because she was dependent on him. Because he knew that without him she would be lost. That's why she kept taking his hurtful words and actions and asked for nothing in return but his protection. That's what he thought and he was happy. He was happy for causing her fear because it was the only emotion he had felt in almost seventeen long years and he was glad that at last he was able to cause it to someone else and not just fleetingly.

At the beginning he even wondered why he had kept her around. He would stare at her sleeping form and wonder why in bloody hell did he take her in. He had no use for her. The services she provided were almost immaterial to him but he still kept her around. She was too easy to manipulate and he took a sick pleasure from that. Her neediness disgusted him but also thrilled him at the same moment.

All that was until one night; a night where like most of the nights of the week he couldn't sleep. It was the night that he first saw, no not saw but felt her hazel eyes boring into his own from the far corner of the room. That was when he realized why she was there, why he kept her with him and troubled himself with her. That was the night that Sweeney Todd realized that he was alone without her. That was the night he realized that he wanted her there with him, that he had to see her eyes every day.

It was the night that Sweeney Todd realized that he needed Amelia Archer like the air he was breathing.

End of prologue

Author's note: Are you still here? Well, if you are thank you for reading, my darlings! Now, please, please leave me a review! Just a few words will make me happy! No flames please! I'll post the first chapter when I'll have a couple of reviews! So, please if you want me to continue, review and tell me your thoughts! :)