Some Quality Time

Disclaimer: I don't own anything related to Red Eye!

Summary: (Sequel to Day-to-Day) Kyra Rippner learned how fragile life was at an early age. Now at seventeen, she is determined to strike out on her own, despite her father's misgivings. But the danger her parents faced with she was infant and that she faced two years earlier is far from over. Someone is hunting her…someone dead set on revenge.

Prologue

March 10th, 2025

Everyone always tells me how much I look my father. When I was younger, I never minded looking like my father, but now…things are different. I want to be an individual. I'm sick of being a Rippner—I'm sick of being my father's shadow.

My mother, in her delusional pregnant state, gave me the unfortunate name of Jack Rippner. My full name is Jacqueline Kyra Reisert Rippner—talk about a mouthful—but to my family, I'm simply known as Jack. At school, I had to change it Kyra to avoid the taunts that come with my name.

I used to be proud of my name and how my father seemed closer to me because of it. Myra and mum are close, but my father and I were closer. We had an understanding that no one else understood…

…that was until he watched me cold-bloodedly murder a man with a knife.

Two years ago, when Jack was no longer a name whispered in hiding, when we finally became the Rippners once more, my world turned upside down. Since then, my father has drawn away from me and back into his work. He had stopped working when I was five months old and now he's returned to the business that he swore he'd quit to protect us. As far as he is concerned, anyone who wished to harm us died on that day.

I think he's wrong. He wasn't there when I heard the threat. I know it's only a matter of time before someone comes looking for us again, especially since we are no longer hiding.

It's the calm before the storm—soon things will change. I know he knows it too, but he's determined that no one will try again. He wants to believe that we defeated our demons that day.

But I know better. We still have our own inner demons to battle. Killing is in our blood and the impulses grow stronger each day. I know why he had his job. I know because no matter how hard I try, I'm just like him.

I'm a killer too.

Author's Notes:

I have toying around with ideas for several months. I wanted to do another story with Kyra, who was one of my favorite characters, and finally the plot popped into my head on the bus Monday morning. So here's the sequel to Day-to-Day! Enjoy!