I am making this story a crossover with Saint by Ted Dekker. It is a novel that came on the market in October 2006. You don't need to read the book to understand my story. I am just using a few of the ideas and characters from the book. The novel is a suspense novel and I think the combination of Red Eye and Saint will be a add a nice edge to the story. I bet you won't see this coming.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Red Eye or of Saint.
Jackson Ripner sat quietly in his car, staring dumb at the radio dial. He could not believe what he just heard on the midday breaking news report. It had been 9 months sense the Keefe job. He had a lot of time to recover from his wounds. His company had busted him down from manager to assassin after the incident and that made him angry. He had not yet taken another job sense then. Through out his recovery time, he had been planning his revenge on Lisa. He had everything that he would do to her mapped out in a little notebook. He had become obsessed with watching her every day and every night. Today was the day that he was going to steal her and implement all of his horrors that he had thought of on her. However, he had taken his eyes off of her for a few hours, to get things ready, and the worst had just happened. The news just release that Lisa Reisert, the girl he hated and wanted revenge from, had disappeared. No one new where she was. Not her father, her mother, her boss, or any of her friends. Lisa had vanished.
Now he sat wondering if he would ever be able to get his revenge. He had to find her, but that seemed all too impossible now. Silently, Jackson promised himself, ' Someday I will find her , even if it takes me the rest of my life.'
3months Later
Jackson strolled into his boss's office and took a seat in a large cushioned chair. He was about to get his first job as an assassin. He felt ready to get back into work, even though it was a much more gruesome job than his old one. He still had Lisa on his mind, but he told himself that he could not do anything about it right now and that he needed to concentrate on his job.
His boss looked at him with a smile on his face, then dropped a file in front of Jackson.
" Whose the target ?" Jackson said without looking at the file.
" You will be heading this hit, Jack. The target is the President of the United States. Take your time on him. I don't want this messed up, you got that?" His boss said seriously.
Jackson nodded and smiled, " Piece of Cake, Boss."
Jackson got up to leave as his boss added, " Oh, Be on the look out for another assassin. Every where we go now we seem to have a little shadow following us and executing our hits before we can. I you happen to run into one, well, just use your imagination. But you execute the hit."
Jackson looked back at his boss momentarily and smiled cunningly. Then he proceeded to walk out of the office.