Take My Hand

All Lies

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE?" Stevie came booming into the kitchen

"I don't know what you mean" 

"I HEARD EVERYTHING! I BELIEVED YOU OVER LINDSEY!"

"He deserved it, thinking he could break up with me!"

"Was any of what you told me true?"

"Nope not a thing! Lindsey punched the wall after I provoked him, and then I called you a whore and he simply left without another word"

"You are sick do you know that?"

"You know what's sick Stevie? Believing someone that you know has lied before over the man your supposed to be in love with!" Tears came to Stevie's eyes as she realised how Lindsey must have felt, how could she ever have believed her

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

"Oh don't worry I'm going, and just to let you know I do think you're a whore and I hope Lindsey never forgives you!"

"The only reason your still standing right now is because we both have other people to think about, now get the fuck out!" Carol Ann waved at Stevie and left, Stevie forgetting her bath and putting her shoes on and grabbing a coat she needed to see Lindsey, driving straight to his house and knocking on the door, with no answer

"Linds please open the door" she cried

"Lindsey please!" Still no reply, Stevie realised she still had a key so she let herself in

"Linds...I'm so sorry...please where are you?" The house was silent and she was worried

Stevie spotted an envelope on the side approaching it she realised her name was on it, opening it she began to read

Stephanie,

I've only wrote this one note to you because your the only one I care about, I just wanted you to know that I honestly had nothing to do with what happened to Carol Ann, and it's broke my heart that you believed her, you could stand over a dead man with a gun and I would still say you were innocent, but I guess that means you mean more to me than I to you

I hope that the rest of your pregnancy is a calm one, I would have loved nothing more than to watch you bloom and watch that precious being grow in there. I know if they are anything like you they will be perfect when they are born, but promise me you won't go back to Don...find a nice man that will treat you and your baby how you deserve

Please know that I'm not doing this to get at you or because of you, I'm doing this because I'm tired, so very tired

I love you and bump so much don't ever forget that

All my love 

Lindsey x

Stevie was in tears, she went up to his bedroom and looked around for him but his clothes were gone...gone...had he just picked up and left? Running to the phone she dialed Micks number

"Hello?"

"Mick it's Stevie"

"I need to talk to you about Lindsey!"

"I rang to ask if you've heard from him?"

"I have...Stevie I don't know how to tell you this...but he's quit the band..."

"What?" Stevie sadly spoke, breaking down into tears

"He phoned me about an hour ago and told me he was quiting, he didn't say why or anything, just that he was and he was sorry"

"Mick this is all my fault, I'll explain when I see you tomorrow okay?" Hanging up she was beside herself, Lindsey had left her life for good, she didn't want that, she needed him, her baby needed him. Leaving his house she headed home to ring Lindsey's brother to see if he knew where he was, he sadly couldn't help

Stevie had cried and cried until she felt exhausted, she was about to go up to bed and turn the TV off when the news broadcast caught her attention

"Breaking news, it's been reported to us that a car has deliberately crashed into a lake four miles from town, the body, that we now believe to be that of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has been pulled from the car and rushed to the nearest hospial, updates will follow as we receive them"

Stevie was frozen to the spot, Lindsey was in an accident that he had deliberately caused, was that what they were trying to say? The letter now made so much sense, but why take his clothes? Maybe it was incase he changed his mind on the way, she had caused this, she might have lost him forever because of her own stupidity...hyperventilating she needed to calm down, she was beginning to get sharp pains in her abdomen, deciding she had to go to him Stevie once again left her house and got in her car, speeding to the nearest hospital that she knew and hoping that was the one he had been taken to

Rushing through the doors she approached the desk

"Please you need to help me, is Lindsey Buckingham here?"

"I'm sorry we can't divulge that information out ma'am, we've got a strict no press rule miss?"

"Nicks, and I'm not press" she watched as the nurse suddenly looked at a file on her desk

"Stephanie Nicks?" Stevie nodded

"I'm sorry Miss Nicks, I didnt recognise you, your down as Mr Buckinghams next of kin, he's down the corridor the last room on the left" she pointed the way and Stevie rushed down there, she was about to go in when a Dr came out the door

"What's going on?" She asked

"You are?"

"Stephanie Nicks, I'm next of kin...please how his he?"

"We've been waiting for you, he's stable, but due to the amount of water he inhaled we've had to hook him up to a breathing support machine"

"Can I see him?"

"Of course, but just to warn you there's a lot of cables, please don't let that alarm you"

Stevie opened the door and automatically burst into tears, Lindsey looked so fragile just laying there lifeless, walking over to him she took his hand

"I'm so sorry Lindsey, I never meant for any of this to happen, I know that you were telling the truth and I need you to pull through so I can start grovelling for your forgiveness, your letter broke my heart Linds, I don't want to go through this pregnancy without you" moving his hand to her stomach she spoke again through tears

"They don't want another daddy, they want you! I want you too! Please baby, come back to us..."