Always Look Forward
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Epilogue
Jackson only left his reunited family once, after Joe's funeral. Lisa remained behind in Miami, while he went away for a quick trip to 'take care of business'.
When he returned, he was wounded, and Lisa was left to clean him up and dress his wounds. She did not ask where or how had he acquired these wounds, she just accepted them as part of Jackson's business. He did not offer anymore information besides saying, "This business is finished. We're safe."
Lisa knew in her heart that they were far from finished and being safe, but she nodded anyways. She wanted, with her whole heart, to believe that this was true. But she knew that they would never be truly finished. It was part of their life, and one day, when their children were older; they would know why Lisa and Jackson acted so strangely and the truth about what had happened in the past few weeks. But not yet.
The Rippners were far from normal, but they liked it that way. It was the only way that Lisa and Jackson had managed to stay together and keep their love strong. If they were any other so-called 'normal' family, Lisa and Jackson either would have split up or one of them would have killed the other.
"Always look forward, right, Jackson?" Lisa asked him later that night as they lay together in their bed, hands entwined and Lisa's head lying on Jackson's chest. One of Jackson's hands was playing with her curly hair—he loved those curls.
"That's right, Leese. What's in the past, is the past. We have a whole future to look forward to—together," he smiled, his blue eyes twinkling mischievously. Lisa regarded him warily, but she still misread him and ended up being tickle-torture mercilessly.
At that moment, everything was right in the strange world that belonged to them and them alone. Hopefully, it would stay that way.
Author's Notes:
It's done! I hope everyone enjoyed it, and the rest of their lives is up to you to imagine. I don't think I'm going to make a sequel to the sequel, because I don't want to ruin the story. I'm ending it here, before I mess it up and make it trashy.