Title: Sestina
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #19 red
Word Count: 458
Rating: T
Summary: A poem -- or, more specifically, a sestina -- about our favorite barber and baker.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( He paces across the room like a caged tiger, muscles coiled, volatile, ready. )

Title: Black and Bitter
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Author: hlfbldprincess
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #21 violence; pillage/plunder; extortion
Word Count: 1,599
Rating: T
Summary: Nellie and Sweeney drink coffee.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( She never adds any sort of sweetener to her tea. )

Title: Two Pulses
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Author: hlfbldprincess
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: 30 Kisses #17, kilohertz; fanfic50 #46, pulse
Word Count: 725
Rating: T
Summary: After their first coupling, Nellie springs up from the bed before he does.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( Because she knows deep down their story cannot end well. )

Title: Woman Delights Not Me
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #14 radio-cassette player
Word Count: 3,768
Rating: T
Summary: Sweeney Todd and the abundance of women in his life.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.
Author's Notes: The wonderful authoress Pamena has graciously agreed to let me borrow her ( Read more... )

Title: In The Dark Beside You
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: Fanfic50 #15 Temperature; 30 Kisses #4 Our Distance and That Person
Word Count: 2,303
Rating: T
Summary: Sweeney tries to find Lucy's grave.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( He is a demon rising from the pits of hell, searching for a salvation that he both craves and mocks. )

Title: On Cats And Company
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #24 good night
Word Count: 1,135
Rating: T
Summary: Sweeney, Nellie, and a cat.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( He hates her laugh. It's this awful, high-pitched howl of a laugh that makes him desire nothing more than to slice open her throat and destroy any chance of ever hearing that noise again. )

Title: Come What May
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney/Nellie
Prompt: #20 the road home
Word Count: 2530
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: An alternate ending.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( He loved fishing. There was no better way to dispose of a body than to use it as bait one piece at a time. )

Title: Soft Slumber
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #26: if only I could make you mine
Word Count: 400
Rating: T
Summary: Nellie watches Sweeney sleep.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( His face is so soft when he sleeps. So innocent, vulnerable. )

Title: Starlight
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #8 Our Own World
Word Count: 653
Rating: T
Summary: "He used to be fascinated by the starlight."
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( He presses his thumb to the window and blocks out a star from his eyes, extinguishes its glow. )

Title: Butterfly
Author: hlfbldprincess
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Pairing: Sweeney Todd/Nellie Lovett
Prompt: #1 Look Over Here
Word Count: 518
Rating: K+
Summary: Nellie finds a butterfly at the park.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.

( It’s been a dream of hers ever since she was a girl to have a butterfly perch upon her skin, if only for a moment, a breath. )