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Cheaper Than Free: An Anniversary Story (The Dance A/U Sequel)

GoldDustLinda77

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***A sequel to The Dance (Alternate Version) Parts 1&2***

Twenty-five years ago during the holiday season of 1997, just after wrapping The Dance reunion tour with Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were married privately in the hospital where Stevie had an emergency C-section at age 49 after complications during her pregnancy with their daughter, Amber Robin Buckingham. 

What followed was 25 years of wedded bliss but still the ups and downs of their careers and their lives - two Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductions, countless tours with The Mac and solo, profound grief over losses in their family and the industry, and later, the health problems that come from two people in their 70s who have lived hard. 

On the eve of their silver anniversary party, Stevie prepares for a houseful of people and reflects on the Wild ride from 1966, the first time she laid eyes on Lindsey Buckingham, to the present day of Thanksgiving 2022.

Be prepared for a twisted, outrageous, fun, sappy, sexy, sad and heartfelt look back at the world of Buckingham Nicks, the one that was...and the one that could have been.All Rights Reserved

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Crystal Visions Part 1: The Reunion by GoldDustLinda77

On the evening of May 20, 2007, Lindsey Buckingham receives a mysterious gift at his front doorstep that leads him to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California to attend an event he never in a million years expected to even attend...let alone enjoy...let alone change the entire trajectory of his life and the lives of his family and the one woman who he's never been able to erase from his memory...or his heart. (I have told several different versions of the reunion of Stevie and Lindsey across a span of about 35 years...so here is just one more I can't get out of my head. Enjoy!) <3

Destiny Rules by frozentwinflames

Fleetwood Mac fizzles out and goes their own ways after The Dance. Ten years later, Stevie and Lindsey unexpectedly cross paths again through their children. Set in 2007.

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 3: Storms by GoldDustLinda77

***After "Over My Head" came "Dreams"...now Part 3... Storms"!*** It's 1979 and Fleetwood Mac has a lot going on...not the least of which is recording Tusk and embarking on yet another tour... Stevie and Lindsey have just had 2 babies in 2 years! Happily married and trying to balance their young family and their careers leads to conflict, especially as Lindsey goes off the deep end with the Tusk sound, as Stevie starts talking about flying solo for awhile to make an album of her own, as as they have drastically different opinions on the dissolution of the marriage of Christine and John McVie, and as Mick muddles through an accidental relationship with Sara Recor all the while making it clear his love for Stevie has a heartbeat...and it never really dies...

Kind Of Woman (Mirage Era: Part 1) by GoldDustLinda77

"All there was, was tea...and Lindsey." After three grueling tours in six years, two painful breakups, a growing addiction to cocaine and a very successful solo album called Bella Donna that she's dead-set on following up with The Wild Heart, Stevie cuts her first solo tour extremely short to honor her promise to Fleetwood Mac and join them in a castle forty miles outside of Paris, France to record an album that will be a lot more commercial than Tusk...much to Lindsey's chagrin... But when Stevie receives word that her best friend Robin is not only dying of leukemia but pregnant, she begins to rely more and more on Lindsey for support, and things heat up and emotions run high as the situation between them, the situation with Robin, as well as growing addictions and drama within the band, take hold. "Six weeks in a foreign country, how the time flew...I didn't speak the language, but somehow I knew..."

My Heart by GoldDustLinda77

***Another In Your Dreams era tale*** Stevie Nicks has spent the better part of 2010 having the time of her life. After agreeing to create her first studio album in a decade in her luxurious Santa Monica home, Dave Stewart has added immeasurably to her life and her art, but there is still one thing they haven't gotten a handle on - "Soldier's Angel". Stevie knows that there is only one person on earth who has ever understood her and her art enough to be able to save the song that means so much to her... His name is Lindsey Buckingham. When Stevie calls Lindsey to come over and help her with the song, things get very emotional very quickly because - as revealed in flashbacks from Fleetwood Mac's 2009 tour - there is a lot of unfinished business between them, and it is the kind of unfinished business that will leave both of them questioning if the events that transpired one night on tour represent the worst mistake they've ever made, or the first step towards a reconciliation. "Just like nothing's changed after all these years...and you're not to blame..."

Fall From Grace: The Dance Thriller, Part 2 by GoldDustLinda77

It's Fall 1997 and Stevie and Lindsey have it all...almost. With a wedding being planned and a baby on the way, a Fleetwood Mac reunion tour and the news of the band being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, everything has fallen into place. That is, except for Lindsey's tie to a woman from his past that can't seem to take no for an answer. Pregnant with Lindsey's child from their brief relationship , Kristen Messner embarks on a campaign to get Stevie and her unborn child out of the way to have Lindsey for herself...and what results is a fall from grace...and quite possibly, the Buckingham Nicks happy ending that should have been. "One night in a world of pain and you finally understand." ~ Stevie Nicks, "Fall From Grace", Trouble In Shangri-La, 2000

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 1: Over My Head by GoldDustLinda77

On New Years Eve, 1974, broke and dejected and desperate to make it in the music business, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham join Fleetwood Mac at a Mexican restaurant... What followed is the story of five very different people becoming a family, dysfunctional though it may have been from the start, making beautiful music together and enjoying almost instant stardom and riches beyond their wildest dreams. At the center of it all, with their relationship on the rocks after years of being tested by crippling blows from the industry and living below the poverty line, remains the beautiful, romantic, once-in-a-lifetime love affair of Stevie and Lindsey, two kids out of Northern California whose perfect harmony exists not only in their music but in their hearts...and in their bed. This is the story of the inception of Fleetwood Mac, a love story that exists when two people in love with making music and each other find themselves "over their heads...and it sure feels nice."

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 4: The Dance by GoldDustLinda77

***In the ongoing Buckingham Nicks alternate universe*** The year is 1997. After creative differences led to Lindsey's departure from Fleetwood Mac in 1987, the Buckingham family - which has expanded with the birth of their daughter Sara in 1988 - has been laying low. Stevie's solo career has been thriving, and they have been raising two teenagers and a very rambunctious and creative and different little girl, Lindsey at home in his studio happily being a stay-at-home dad and making his own music. But when MTV approaches the band for a televised reunion concert and a subsequent tour unfolds, Stevie and Lindsey must navigate not just a resurgence of their careers in middle age but the perils of parenthood - as well as a late-in-life visit from the stork - and somehow keep alive the spark, the love, the undying passion that makes them Buckingham Nicks.

Buckingham Nick A/U Series Part 5: The Dance, Continued... by GoldDustLinda77

***Continued from Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 4: The Dance*** Stevie and Lindsey face trouble when a complication in her late-in-life pregnancy forces them to retool the entire 1997 tour and allow for her best rest. It also sets off chain reaction that threatens to divide their family, as well as cause tension between the Buckinghams and the McVies, who have just decided to remarry after over fifteen years united only as co-parents, bandmates and friends. Join Stevie, Lindsey, Christine, John and Mick as they struggle to give their all to the great reunion tour of the fall of 1997 that was The Dance, all while figuring out how to be a family...with three beautiful life events in the end that prove that no matter what, they will never break the chain.

Tango In The Night Part 2: When I See You Again by GoldDustLinda77

***The sequel to Tango In The Night Part 1: Big Love*** It's 1987 and Lindsey Buckingham has left Fleetwood Mac after a tumultuous and violent argument/showdown with Stevie and the band. Two new guitarists are hired and "the show must go on"...except that Stevie's pre-birthday night of passion with Lindsey has left her carrying his child! Stevie's avoidance of Lindsey drives him to seek help winning her back from unlikely sources...as well as prompting Mick to propose marriage to help her raise her child. Which of Stevie's "great loves" will be her husband of 35 years by Thanksgiving 2022, the start of the flashback story? Will Lindsey's wrongdoings be forgiven, or is Mick Fleetwood at the right place at the right time? And WHAT is her anniversary surprise? Find out in the conclusion of Tango In The Night...

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Crystal Visions Part 1: The Reunion

On the evening of May 20, 2007, Lindsey Buckingham receives a mysterious gift at his front doorstep that leads him to the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, California to attend an event he never in a million years expected to even attend...let alone enjoy...let alone change the entire trajectory of his life and the lives of his family and the one woman who he's never been able to erase from his memory...or his heart. (I have told several different versions of the reunion of Stevie and Lindsey across a span of about 35 years...so here is just one more I can't get out of my head. Enjoy!) <3