Jealousy: A story of love, passion and desire.

Disclaimer: I do not own any sweeney todd stuff

It was in the middle of the day and it all started after Mr. Sweeney Todd had killed Signor Adolfo Pirelli. "So um, wot we gonna do about the boy then?" Mrs. Lovett asked referring to Toby downstairs, she asked Mr. Todd.

"Send him up" he responded, cleaning Pirelli's blood from his razor. Mrs. Lovett looked at him and said "Now Mr. T., he's a simple thing, 'e wont go hurtin enybody" she said. "Send him up" he said with more authority to his voice. "Mr. T, I promise you he's simple, besides ive been lookin' for a lad to 'elp me in the shop." She begged him. "Alright" Sweeney said walking away to the window. "Course, we gotta 'ave to stock up on more gin, the boy drinks like a sailor."

As Sweeney Todd looked out the window, he saw Judge Turpin and the Beadle coming towards his shop. This was his one chance to get to the judge. "Get out" he said to her as he was looking around wildly, wondering what to do. He saw that she was still there "Get out!" he yelled. She obeyed this time and walked down the stairs. "Wonder whats got 'is knickers ina bunch, all because of that bloody ol' judge."

She cheered herself up before she got in the shop to see Toby. Toby was still eating his pie. "Ello love, would you care for a tot of gin, or maybe another pie?" Toby shook his head rapidly as he was finishing eating the first pie. He swallowed and started eating the next pie like an animal. Mrs. Lovett sat down across from him. She chuckled as she watched him eat. "My, my, my how could you eat those, they are entirely the worst pies in London."

"Mum, I havent hardly eaten anything in weeks." Toby responded. Mrs. Lovett looked at him in shock. "Dear, you gotta be kidding me! Didn't Signor Pirelli feed you anything?" Toby shook his head and said "Not hardly, for meals, he would eat first and whatever was leftover I would eat, which was hardly nothing. But most of the time I would get nothing because of his punishments." Toby went back to eating.

"Well 'ow in the bloody hell did you end up with such a horrible man?" she said. "He got me from the workhouse, that's the only thing I can actually thank him for. Mum, you have no idea what goes on in the workhouse, peope get beaten and raped each day, the food is always cold and it consists of a daily mush. I cant go back there now that Pirelli's gone, I'll be killed!" He started to freak out. Mrs. Lovett ran over to him and held him in her arms.

"Hush love, hush. Don't worry ye aint goin back to workhouse nor Pirelli…. Terrible man, 'ow could he just leave you here?" she ruffled his hair. Toby had thought Pirelli left him at Mrs. Lovett's pie shop, but what he secretly didn't know was that he was upstairs dead in Mr. Todd's trunk. "I promise not to let nothing 'appen to ya" she said. Toby looked at her and said "Really? Oh wow thanks mum!" he grinned, and she smiled back. "I promise to be real good, and maybe I could even help ya in yer shop mum!" he said. "Oh Toby that would be wonderful love." She patted his head and got him a glass of gin.

Promise him she did, she always took care of Toby, but what she didn't know was that Toby would cause conflict between she and Sweeney Todd.