Paths Crossed

After something as incredible as the events of the Red Eye. How is someone like Lisa Reisert meant to act? Was she to withdraw from the world that sends threats against her? Is she meant to breakdown and suffer horrendous nightmares following the incident? Or was the experience a tell - tale sign that she must move on, enjoy her young life and independence and bask in her victory? It was easy to respond as it happened, the choices were simple, straightforward but heavy in it's consequence, yet, more difficult, was how to cope after, the choices infinitely more complicated and something as simple as moving on should have been easy.

It wasn't.

For Jackson, the flight was leaden with difficult choices, exhausted facades and heavy expectations from his customers and his captive. Jackson had never pondered this but then he had never expected her. His actions got easier and easier as the flight progressed. His retaliation against her made him clearer in his mind, it became obvious and straightforward to be consumed with unimaginable fury with what she had done. Somehow his actions that night, in retrospect, were unusually difficult but as Jackson looked out onto the white washed condo that held Lisa within it's walls, it was infinitely easy debating what to do next.

Neither captor or captive knew when the paths crossed over.