March 10, 2011
Randy was in his bedroom going over his list of what he needed to pack while talking to Jade over Skype.
"So when is your flight Jadie?"
"5 pm tomorrow. Don't worry Hun I'll be seeing you soon."
"I know, so you all wrapped with Muta & them?"
"For now, as we know WWE will have trips back here & Shadow may get called by him men."
"Well at least you will be here for Mania."
"More importantly your birthday."
"Thanks Jadie."
"I mean it dear…I jus…what the…I got to hide."
"Jade?…Hide…Jade what's going on?" Randy quickly ran to his computer screen seeing her screen shaking. "Jade! JADE!"
"I don't know if you can hear me" Her voice was distant & broken up from the rumbling he was hearing "or if this is still broadcasting…" The screen then went static loosing the signal. Randy trying to remain calm grabbed his cell phone. He tried calling her three times each time going to voice mail.
"Please be ok, please be ok…" He moved to sit on the edge of his bed thinking of what else he could do. He was just praying that either their Skype would reconnect or his phone would ring with her on the other end. He wasn't sure how long he sat there in shock before his mind cleared about what to do next. He hated the though of it, but he opened his phone looking for Mr. McMahon's number.
Vince & Linda were sound asleep when Vince's phone started to go off on the dresser. He was not sure how many times it rang before it woke him up, Vince guessed at least three times as he tried to block the sound out when they went to bed. He looked at the clock it was reading just after eleven. He got up from the bed hitting the speaker button knowing Linda was already awake.
"Whoever this is, it better be damn important."
"Vince? Vince It's Jade." Came across the worried voice of Randy.
"What do you mean it's Jade? What happened to Jade?" Vince could hear Linda moving in the bed behind him listening.
"Something happened in Japan Vince…I don't know exactly what happened. We were talking on a video chat, she said she had to go hide Vince. I wasn't looking at the screen at the time, but when I did the camera was shaking. Her whole place was Vince…She said she didn't know if she was still broadcasting & then the signal got lost. Vince I know you have better global contacts." The more Randy talked the more numb his voice grew to prevent himself from braking down on the phone.
"It's OK Randy, just need to remember she will be OK. I'll see what I can find on this end & keep you posted. I know you will just want to keep calling her, but if something affected the whole area I doubt you will get through. Just call once more & leave her a message if you can get through. The relays may be down. Just take a deep breath & keep yourself calm."
"Yeah." Vince could heard Randy take a deep breath sighing "You're right Vince…sorry for starting to loose my head there."
"It's ok Randy. I'm just glad my girl found someone that worried about her like that. Let me let you go though."
"Yeah Vince…night." Vince heard Randy hang up & he shook his head. He looked over at Linda before moving over to her giving her a hug.
"I'm going to head to my den & see if I can reach any of the over seas outlets."
"OK Vince good luck." Linda got out of the bed putting on her robe. "I think I'll go make us some tea…or coffee?"
"Coffee for me I don't think I will be getting back to sleep for a few hours at least." Vince left the room heading for the den he left the door partly open while he began making phone calls. The first to Mutoh's office itself & as he feared the phone relays were either down or overloaded. Going on his computer Vince started to look up the news networks finding out about the earthquake that hit Japan about two hours ago at that point. He then saw about the tsunami that hit the coast about an hour ago. He closed his eyes a small prayer to himself that Jade was ok.
Vince kept checking different sources every half hour or so, but he could never get anything directly from Japan itself. He wasn't sure how long he was at his desk for before Linda sadly dragged him back to bed for more sleep.
Hours turned to days & days to weeks. The McMahon's keep trying to get tabs on Japan, but with no word about Jade. Randy wasn't doing much better she was always on his mind. He was knee deep in a angle with Punk of all people when this happened & was heading up to Mania for that year. They all did what they could to carry business as normal.