Sweeney Todd #22 Perfect
Title: Perfection
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Sweeney Todd, Nellie Lovett, Toby Ragg
Prompt: #22 Perfect
Word Count: 100
Rating: K+
Summary: Nellie's life is perfect.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.
Her life is perfect.
She lives with her beloved and her adoring son. She runs a business that brings in plenty of money.
What more can woman require?
She can never fall asleep. Each night, she slaps her pillows relentlessly, trying to make them comfortable. But they're permanently crisp from dried fluids, permanently perfumed by metallic blood and salty tears, and she will never be comfortable until the permanent disintegrates.
But she is happy. Her tears leak and his blood seeps onto her pillows and she tells herself she is happy.
After all, no one ever said perfection was easy.
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Sweeney Todd, Nellie Lovett, Toby Ragg
Prompt: #22 Perfect
Word Count: 100
Rating: K+
Summary: Nellie's life is perfect.
Disclaimer: All I own is a computer.
Her life is perfect.
She lives with her beloved and her adoring son. She runs a business that brings in plenty of money.
What more can woman require?
She can never fall asleep. Each night, she slaps her pillows relentlessly, trying to make them comfortable. But they're permanently crisp from dried fluids, permanently perfumed by metallic blood and salty tears, and she will never be comfortable until the permanent disintegrates.
But she is happy. Her tears leak and his blood seeps onto her pillows and she tells herself she is happy.
After all, no one ever said perfection was easy.