At home and in dry clothes, Jackson explained everything. He'd been tipped off of his overthrown and had bolted. When he'd heard they'd had his family, he'd desperately wanted to go to them, but Jeff had convinced him not to. Instead Jeff convinced the Organization that Lisa knew Jackson's wherabouts, as did he, and had "told" them. An old associate of Jackson's with quite a few debts to pay had agreed to stand in as Jackson (colored contacts and a wig, plus lots of breatholding) but the man unfortunately buried in Jackson Rippner's graveyard plot was not Jackson. Although the plan had gone horribly astrew Lisa couldn't help but feel joyful at the fact that her husband was alive.
Later, he was forced back
into hiding with Lisa and Caylib, but eventually they lived a life of
piece. After the company stopped sending assassins to finish Jack off
(they never got past the mailbox before Jackson got to them) they
came back out of hiding and tried to live life normally. Jackson
(surprise, surprise) paid someone off to wipe his criminal record
free so he could apply for a job elsewhere. He ended up (much to the
shock and irony of everyone he knew) working alongside his wife at
the Lux Atlantic.
Lisa finally got her dream of a happy family. It
had been a long, bumpy road but finally, even though her husband was
an ex-killer she found a life filled with ease, normality, and lots
of love. Her second child, Faye Scarlett Rippner, was born a week
after Caylib's sixth birthday.
While things never proved to be
dull for the Rippners they also were never perfect. But Lisa knew one
thing, and that was that she wouldn't have it any other way.
Author's Note-That's all, folks! Please exit the theater in a calm and orderly fashion and dispose of your garbage in the nearest trash receptacles. Please feel free to praise, review, and shower me with compliments. The End.