Unexpected Twists of Fate
TITLE: Unexpected Twists of Fate Prologue?
AUTHOR: Juliet3:16
EMAIL: R
CONTENT: VIOLENCE, ADULT LANGUAGE, TORTURE
CATEGORY: ANGST, HORROR, DRAMA, ADULT
SPOILERS: Right around when Stephanie and Vince first had Linda committed at the end of 2000 and fired Mick Foley. After that everything is AU.
SUMMARY: Three years after a fire at WWF NY destroyed everything, an alliance with Ric Flair could bring Shane some unexpected truths about what happened.
DISCLAIMER: These are Vince McMahon's toys, not mine for the most part.
DISTRIBUTION: WWOMB. Anyone else please ask.
Unexpected Twists of Fate.
Prologue
There was screaming everywhere.
A fire had broken out at WWF New York, the World Wrestling Federation's nightclub/restaurant. Shane McMahon and his wife Marissa had come to WWFNY to confront his father, Vince, and sister Stephanie, over recent actions that culminated in his mother, Linda, being briefly committed to a mental health facility. While Shane had managed to get his mother released before Vince and Stephanie managed to do any real harm to the Federation, he still wanted some answers as to why they had tried to pull the power play on Linda. When the fire broke out, all thoughts of a confrontation flew out of Shane's head. All he wanted then was to make sure his father and sister were all right.
Which is why he and Marissa were frantically searching the burning establishment for them.
Shane was about to give up and get his wife out of there when he spotted them. Stephanie was kneeling down next to their unconscious father with a concerned look on her face. A thin burning beam separated Shane from his father and younger sister.
"Shane!" Stephanie screamed, "something cough hit Dad hard. I don't know cough where Hunter is."
"Hang on!" Shane replied, "I'll get to you."
Just then the firefighters reached them, forcing Shane and Marissa out of the burning building.
"My Dad and sister are in there!" Shane protested as a firefighter continued to push him and his wife out of the remains of WWFNY.
"We'll get to them," the firefighter promised, finally getting Marissa and Shane out the door.
But they never did. Seconds after Shane and Marissa were evacuated, the side of the building where Vince and Stephanie had been collapsed in a burning heap.
Shane's screams mixed in with the images of his sister screaming for him as her and their father burned.
Shane McMahon woke up in a cold sweat screaming. The sudden movement and strangled scream awoke Marissa.
"Shane?" she asked worried over what had gotten her husband in such a state. It only took one look at her husband's haunted eyes to let her know what happened.
"Another nightmare," she said. It was not a question, but Shane nodded anyway
"I'm going to get some water and I'll be back to bed in a sec," Shane told his wife, kissing her on the forehead before he left the room.
As he went into the kitchen and got the cool water, a part of Shane wished he'd thought to get something stronger. Shane had never been much of a drinker, and that was enforced even more since his and Marissa's son was born. In fact, about the only time Shane thought about any type of liquor was when Shane had a dream about what happened less than three years ago.
"Three years," Shane thought bitterly.
It had been almost three years since the tragic New Year's fire at WWF NY. A majority of the roster had died, effectively putting the company out seemingly permanent business. Many bodies were not found; it was presumed that they were incinerated. Of the bodies that were found, most were burned beyond recognition. The cause of the fire was never revealed.
After that night, Shane disengaged himself almost completely. He and Marissa moved to South Carolina and started a family of their own. The only contacts with wrestling were his Mother and the Posse; Rodney being his son's Godfather. It was only in recent months that he even thought about returning to wrestling. Ric Flair had a lot to do with it.
Shane looked at the clock. He needed to get some sleep if he was going to catch his flight tomorrow. He agreed to meet Flair in California to discuss a number of issued related to his involvement in a scheme to take down WCW owner and head of the New World Order, Eric Bischoff. He would be touching down as NITRO was ending and meeting with Flair in his hotel room not too long after that. He wondered if he was doing the right thing by getting back into the mix of things. The next day was going to be interesting.
Shane didn't realize just how interesting things were going to get.
More to come. Thanks for reading!