The Dance We Shared

29

December 6, 2001

Arizona held a special place in Stevie's heart and the fact that she was able to do this benefit and hand over some money to an organization that was near and dear to her heart, especially because her mom and dad both have heart disease and Lindsey's brother and Father died from it as well. 

She was in her dressing room her three years old and her two years old were playing with their toys in the middle of the floor. She was ready to go, hair, makeup, dress and all and she was on the floor with them. Everleigh was sitting on her lap and Seth was rolling around his toy trucks. It was a special night as Lindsey was there and would be performing, Don Henley was there, Sheryl Crow, Mick Fleetwood, and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. Waddy was back as well after an arrest and probation. His crime was Child Pornography and while Stevie didn't think he did anything wrong, she was still kind of wary about leaving her children alone with him but Lindsey was there as well as their families so there would never be a moment where her children were alone. 

She was very happy that she was able to get her children dressed up for a change because usually, it doesn't happen. Everleigh's hair was curly with a little bow barret pushing back her little bangs. The bow was red. Her dress was navy blue with ruffly cap sleeves. On the dress, were small pink and red flowers. It was paired with a red sweater, little white tights, and little red Mary Janes. Her son was dressed in a pair of khakis little brown dress shoes and she had him in a little blue button-up shirt and cute little red bowtie. His little brown curls had been recently trimmed and she maybe took a million photos of them before they left for the venue. She'd be lucky if they last the night, however. 

A knock came at her dressing room door. Karen got up to answer the door and sighed. That's when Stevie turned to the best of her ability and saw Lindsey. Karen and Lindsey DO NOT get along in the slightest. 

"Hi Honey." She smiles.

"So Angel, why do we have two separate dressing rooms?" Lindsey asks

"Karen set everything up, don't ask me. But I do know that you like your space." Stevie explains as he kisses her head.

"That is true, but I still would like to be with my wife and children." He smiles.

"Well, you can move in here if you want." Stevie shrugs. 

"Good, I'm planning on it...Hi Buddy." He swoops down and picks up Seth.

"Daddy truck." He holds up the dump truck to Lindsey.

"You're right that's  dump truck." Lindsey nods.

"Da Da." Everleigh reaches her arms up. Lindsey just chuckles and swoops down also picking her up in his arms. Stevie just throws her arms up in exhasperation but then she stands up and grabs her camera. 

"Alright Daddy, Smile." She coos. Lindsey obeys and then she snaps the picture of her three greatest loves. 

***

Very quickly she is ushered onto the stage and the concert goes off without a hitch. She starts out like always with Stop Draggin My Heart Around, then she flows into Enchanted, Dreams, and Gold Dust Woman. Sheryl Crow is then brought on stage and they sing sorcerer together and thens Sheryl does a song by herself. Don Henley is up next. He sings Leather and Lace with Stevie and then he does two of his own songs. Then Stevie sings, Stand Back, Every Day, and then she beams because it's Lindsey's turn. They only sing Landslide together and Lindsey does two solo songs and then he clears his throat.

"Before I take off, I wanted to do one more song. This is written by one of the great writers. My last song tonight is a cover song. Stevie and I listen to Bob Dylan probably more than necessary and I have had the pleasure to meet him, and I know Stevie has as well. So I decided to do this song for you tonight. Bob Dylan became famous when I was a teenager in the early sixties and this song reminded me of when after Stevie and I joined Fritz...her family moved back here for her dad's job and we would come down here in our very few days off during the summer and the school holidays and we'd come to visit her parents and it's a good twelve-hour drive and since we couldn't afford a plane ticket...she had a bus pass, I didn't we'd drive the twelve hours and we'd blare Bob Dylan and sing at the top of our lungs. And it reminds me of those good times. And I'm going to bring a couple more people out here to help me out with it. Most notably, my very great and long time friend, Mr. Mick Fleetwood." Mick comes out and hugs him and then when Mick motions for Lindsey to continue he does. "Mick and I have been spending a lot of time together recently because Fleetwood Mac is working on a studio album right now. And um I think one of the things that happen is you first learn how to sort of be responsible and take care of your self and then you can take care of others and be responsible for them too. And that's what we're learning how to do again." 

Stevie watches from the wings as they performance and she smiles. She didn't know if she was necessarily ready to be back in the studio with Fleetwood Mac because tensions run high in the studio and right now her marriage was in a very good place and she was worried that one misstep was going to flush it all down the drain. 

***

As they were laying in their bedroom at Stevie's house in Pheonix where Jessi, and a very tense Chris and Lori were living their two children sleeping peacefully, Seth between them and Everleigh in her little pack-n-play Lindsey rolled over and looked at her as she was writing in her journal.

"I bought a house." 

"You what!" She gasps. Because of who they were and the amount of money in each of their respective accounts they had opted not to combine their finances when they got married, but they primarily use Stevie's account as both names are attached to each other's accounts. But because they really only use hers, his money just sits in there and accumulates interest.

"I bought a house in the Pacific Palisades I only paid 100,000.00 for it which is cheap for the palisades. It's a gated community and there's a privacy gate, the land is Huge Steph absolutely huge but the house was pure shit so I've hired a company to knock it down and we have a meeting with them on Monday to draw up blueprints." 

"And why didn't you talk to me about this?" She asks.

"Because I knew you wouldn't like the idea." 

"Exactly, our house is fine." 

"While it is fine,  now we don't have much of a yard and the kids are growing fast. What happens when they want me to build them a treehouse or they want a swing set..." Lindsey trails off.

"Well, I guess you have a point. Am I by water?" She inquires.

"The property backs up to it, yes, but because of the privacy fence no. We'd still overlook it. And it's like a five-minute drive." Lindsey explains. 

"Fine, but on Monday I want to go see it before I go help you write up blueprints." She scolds cuddling up with Seth and closing her eyes.