Landslide (Original Series Prequel 2)

Take This Love, Take It Down

***Lots of sexy stuff ahead!!! Enjoy!!!***

Sound City Studio
Hollywood, California
Monday, April 2, 1973
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"You may not be as strong as me...and I may not care to teach you...It may be hard to keep up with me...but I'll always be able to reach you..."

Lindsey sat on a stool in front of a microphone, headphones on his ears and a guitar in his lap, Stevie sitting on a stool at her own microphone beside him and waiting to join him in singing the chorus of the final track on Buckingham Nicks. They had been at the studio almost every day since the start of 1973, recording tracks and adding what needed adding, including the last-minute addition that was a song neither of them had written, an instrumental guitar song called "Django". A small part of Stevie wished they hadn't included it, as she thought it cheapened the beauty of "Stephanie", which was also a guitar instrumental. Lindsey had disagreed, telling her it was the perfect bridge from "Don't Let Me Down Again" to "Races Are Run" and she had relented when Keith had agreed...retreating to the ladies room to cry, not so much because her opinion had been outnumbered but because Lindsey hadn't understood why "Django" somehow made "Stephanie" less special.

"Frozen Love" was their baby. Stevie had come up with the lyrics back in Northern California when they were recording at Morris Buckingham's coffee plant, leaving the cassette by the coffee pot with a little note that read, New song - Add all the cool stuff you want but please leave my words alone. I love you. ~ Stevie

Lindsey had added a lot of "cool stuff" to her demo, including an amazing guitar solo that had blown her away the first time she'd heard it. They were singing it together on the album, and she knew it was something special.

"Life gave me you; the change was made...And there's no beginning over...You are not happy but what is love...Hate gave you me for a lover..." Stevie sang after the chorus, the second verse of the song something that had been plucked almost directly from her journal a few months ago after a particularly vicious argument about money. The fight had ended with an angry, passionate kiss that left her speechless and too out of breath to fight anymore, followed seconds later by Lindsey bending her over the kitchen counter in her little white ruffled nightgown and taking her hard and fast from behind. Later that night, as Lindsey had slept in bed after another round of desperate, all-consuming sex, the dog between them in a little white ball, Stevie had sobbed hysterically, crying so hard she could barely catch her breath. She cried because she was frightened, not of Lindsey but of herself - she knew now that whatever hold he had on her, she was powerless to stop it or even ask what it was. He loved her as much as she loved him, they were so connected they were like one person and this point, and whatever issues that may have come up between them, she knew she was also powerless to let those issues stand in the way of the sex. Whether she was happy with him, angry at him or otherwise - and especially when she was angry at him sometimes, she hated to admit - Lindsey had a sexual hold on her that she could do nothing about. She was reduced to jello in his embrace, she craved him in a way that was primal and visceral, and he could make her feel things in her body that she'd never known were possible - even as she lay writhing beneath him and screaming his name in desperation and pleasure and love, she knew she could never let that go. And, she knew it was the same for him. She could feel it in every kiss, every touch, every thrust - Lindsey's need for her was every bit as animal as he need for him, and there was no taming it.

"And if you go forward, I'll meet you there...and if you climb up through the cold freezing air...look down below you, search out above...and cry out to life for a frozen love..." they sang together in a harmony as perfect as the harmony they shared in bed. She was surprised Lindsey hadn't asked her about the lyrics...perhaps he was feeling as she was, afraid of how deep and powerful their connection was even in the worst of times.