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Post by Irene on May 28, 2007 16:11:09 GMT -5
*Irene looked back at the window as he led her down. The sun had started to come up. She bent over, as if in pain*
"I am dreaming...I'm waking up...they want me back..."
*She grabbed hold of the man's hand*
"Please don't let them take me back!"
*And with that, she vanished before his eyes*
((Sorry to spoil your plan, but she really is still back there.))
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Post by Sweeney Todd on May 28, 2007 16:16:24 GMT -5
((S'okay. I thought it'd be sort of awkward, anyway. You savedeth me!))
Sweeney's eyes opened. He was surprised to find that he was still in his bed. He turned and looked out the window. The sun was rising, just as it had been in the dream. He sat up. Had it really been a dream? It had seemed so real. He shook his head, trying to get rid of the image if the bruised, terrified woman.
No, she had to be real—and he had to help her. But the question was, where was she? Getting up and getting dressed, he decided that he would go and ask Johanna if she knew anything about it.
((Because Sweeney has no other contact with the outside world. XD))
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 14:10:55 GMT -5
NEXT NIGHT
*Irene wasn't even surprised to find herself at the shop. She walked as if in a trance, over to a table where a pair of scissors lay. She picked them up and pointed them down, about to plunge them into her heart.*
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 14:37:53 GMT -5
Sweeney stepped out of the shadows and pulled the scissors from her hands. "No," he said. "You need to be alive if you're going to be rescued."
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 14:43:02 GMT -5
"It's already been tried", *she said softly*. "They were defeated. And he invited his wife to join in using me."
*She turned aside*
"I don't want to go on living."
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 14:44:51 GMT -5
Sweeney put his arm around her comfortingly. "Don't give up hope. If you just tell me where you are and who you're with, I can round some people up and help you."
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 14:47:30 GMT -5
"You don't understand", *she said.* "He isn't human. He cannot be killed. I would not have more deaths on my head."
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 14:50:19 GMT -5
He frowned stubbornly. "Look, there has to be a way. I know that this is a dream right now, but you're real, and I've never met you or heard of you in my life. Why would you be coming to me if I couldn't help you?"
((In sleep she sang to me, in dreams she came... That voice which calls to me, and speaks my name... And do I dream again? For now I find...the Deteeeeeeective of the Opera is theeeeeeeeere, inside my mind.))
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 14:56:09 GMT -5
"I don't know", *she replied honestly.* "But what can you do? call the police?"
*She laughed bitterly*
"The law. I used to work for them, you know. If I brought evidence against a rich man, it was dismissed entirely. ANd if I proved a poor man's innocence, he would still be sent up the river by whatever corrupt judge happened to be on duty."
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 14:57:23 GMT -5
Sweeney grinned hollowly. "Indeed, I have had personal experience with that," he said. "But you say he is not human. What is he, then?"
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 14:59:05 GMT -5
*She shrugged*
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. His name is Dracula."
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 15:00:30 GMT -5
"Dracula," he repeated. He looked at her intently. "I have to believe you. I'm dreaming about a girl I've never met—I'll believe you if you tell me that the sky is green."
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 15:02:32 GMT -5
"He is one of the living dead. He drinks the blood of mortals to survive. He has the strength of ten men, the powers of a devil, and cannot be killed."
*Irene really had to laugh*
"Listen to me. I sound like I should be locked away in an asylum."
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Post by Sweeney Todd on Jun 2, 2007 15:03:35 GMT -5
"No, no, you shouldn't. I believe you," he said, though he was having a little trouble grasping the idea. "So this Dracula...he is a vampire?"
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Post by Irene on Jun 2, 2007 15:05:15 GMT -5
"Yes. But not an ordinary one. He is their leader, a thousand times more powerful than any others."
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