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The Chain

GoldDustLinda77

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Parts 10
Time 1h 9m

GoldDustLinda77

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At the age of 74, Stevie Nicks is no stranger to loss. Robin, Jess, Barbara, Tom - not to mention every fur baby she's ever called herself Mommy to - have been losses she's never quite recovered from. Stevie, like all people, has heard the old expression, "Life is short." 

But she never thought she'd actually stand to lose Lindsey Buckingham. 

At the age of 73, Lindsey Buckingham is stunned to learn he is suffering from a heart condition, 4 years after a heart attack and triple bypass surgery forced him to look at his own mortality, take stock of the things working and not working in his life. 

But he knows in his heart the thing working the least is not being able to talk to Stevie Nicks. 

From Thanksgiving to New Years Eve 2022, a pair of stubborn soul mates with 56 years of history will take stock of what they had...and what they lost...and what they had...and what they lost...

...and finally figure out how to let The Chain keep them together.All Rights Reserved

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Say You Love Me (Double Love Trilogy Conclusion) by GoldDustLinda77

It's Valentine's Day 2023, the big moment, the day that two of the most controversial and volatile couples in music history are getting married in a double wedding at a majestic English castle - one for the second time around and one, despite a decades-long history, for the first. Love is in the air, but so is the drama... Unrequited love, health issues and a shocking blast from the past all converge on the otherwise magical scene for both couples, who, in their 70s, have come a long way to this moment and are no strangers to the drama because, after all, they are Fleetwood Mac. Will love win out over all? Will happiness finally to The Mac after decades of turmoil? Read on to see what happens when the "loving starts and the lights go down and there's not another living soul around"...and when that perfect moment is challenged by the drama of the past and the present.

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..."

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 7: Say You Will by GoldDustLinda77

***The Buckingham Nicks alternate universe returns in the early 2000s with the era of Say You Will!!!*** It's 2002 and Stevie, just home from her Trouble In Shangri-La tour, joins Lindsey, Mick and John in the studio for the first time without Christine to make a new album. However their professional lives may be stressful, however, pales in comparison to the drama, the struggles and, yes, also the happiness, that comes with having two grown children, a young teen and a daughter just starting school...the family they have created over 25 years of marriage. A new album, a tour, a health scare, a wedding and the first grandchild of both the Buckinghams and the McVies color the first few years of the new millennium for our favorite rock and roll love match, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. "That kind of romance comes only once, that kind of love that kind of fever dance...that you love because you become someone else in an instant..." ~ Stevie Nicks, "Say You Will", 2002

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series: The Nightbird by GoldDustLinda77

The Buckingham family rings in the year 2019 with much to be grateful for and proud of - particularly Stevie's upcoming induction into the. Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as the first woman inducted twice! With the ceremony set for late March in Brooklyn, NY, Stevie begins throwing herself into rehearsal...until a phone call comes in from the hospital one February morning that changes her world forever... "Mrs. Buckingham, your husband has had a heart attack and will need a triple bypass to survive." Stephanie Nicks Buckingham is no stranger to tragedy and loss. After losing her best friend Robin at a young age, the deaths of her parents and several close friends and relatives, she has trained herself to "wear her boots all summer long." But the thought of losing Lindsey, the love of her life, would be asking too much...even of The Nightbird.

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...

Everybody Loves You by GoldDustLinda77

On Monday, January 9, 2023, the four remaining members of Fleetwood Mac gather in Malibu at aa private memorial service for Christine McVie, whose death six weeks earlier shook them all to their core...particularly Stevie Nicks. As Stevie appears in Malibu to bid farewell to yet another best friend, she finds herself more anxious than sad, because two of the most important men in her life will be there, and so will their decades-long connections and conflicting emotions... Mick Fleetwood, who has made it clear to her since Christine's death that life is too short to deny oneself happiness...and happiness for Mick is to love Stevie in a way he was denied decades earlier during their brief love affair. Lindsey Buckingham, whom she has not set eyes on in 5 years, ever since the infamous MusiCares incident that got Lindsey kicked out of the band and put an abrupt end to 20 years of "almost" after their breakup after The Dance. Stevie, still grieving the loss of her friend, must decide once and for all who, if either of these men, will be the one with whom she will spend the remaining years of her life - the man whose comfortable friendship and home in Hawaii is waiting for her, or the man she has loved and hated and lusted after and mourned for her entire adult life but has never gotten over. Told in the first-person point of view by all three people involved in this love triangle, "Everybody Loves You" will answer question... Will Stevie choose comfort, passion, or her own independence from it all?

I Sing For The Things: A Birthday Love Story by GoldDustLinda77

***In the real-life world of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham*** It's Friday, May 26, 2023, and Stevie is 75. With her recent touring schedule, an ongoing illness in her band making it harder, and still mourning the loss of Christine McVie, she is in no mood for celebration. She plans on spending a quiet night at home after a show in Florida with her dogs, her music, her journal, some Law & Order SVU and, of course, a carrot cake. So into her solo birthday plans is she that she almost ignores a phone call that leads to a late-night drive that puts a long-standing feud to an end will change the rest of her life...

Talk To Me: The Dance Thriller, Part 1 by GoldDustLinda77

In the spring of 1997, Lindsey Buckingham was having fun in the studio, jamming with Mick, John and occasionally Christine, 4 out of 5 members of Fleetwood Mac ready to rumble. That was when Warner Brothers, capitalizing on the renewed energy and friendships, decided adding Stevie to the mix for a full-blown reunion concert would be a great idea. The Dance, as it was soon called, reunited 5 great musicians and friends...and also...a couple, 20 years smarter and saner and still very much in love. In this THIRD version of The Dance from GoldDustLinda77, you will follow along as Stevie and Lindsey finally clear the air in an effort to see, as they both approach 50, if love can conquer all...if they just sit down and talk and "let their secrets free, baby." Welcome back to 1997, that pivotal moment in history when Buckingham Nicks proves second chances are what happens if you "let the walls burn down" and talk it out.

If You Were My Love (Double Love Series Part 1) by GoldDustLinda77

From 1995-2023, I chronicled the affair-turned-feud-turned-marriage of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, finally uniting them in "The Wild Heart" and continuing their journey in "Gold And Braid; A Love Story". In "Outside The Rain", it was a life-threatening illness in 2022 that was the catalyst for a Buckingham Nicks love reunion. And now, how about another alternate ending to the greatest love story in rock & roll history... The year is 2022. Separated by miles and by their long-standing feud since the 2018 MusiCares debacle, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are enjoying their separate solo careers in their 70s on two separate tours... That is, until a phone call to both from a band member about ANOTHER famous Fleetwood Mac couple's late-in-life reunion throws them both together for the first time in nearly 5 long years... The chain may keep them together, but will it help them all find their way back together for good after 5 years apart? Find out in my next present-day Buckingham Nicks reunion love story, "If You Were My Love".

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

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