Author's Note!

Hiya everyone (:

This is one of the most awesome shows ever so I just had to write a story about it :D

This is going to have more than one chapter & it would probably be taking place in either season four or five.

Robin and Barney had been broken up for a while. Robin still loved Barney and she was having trouble dealing with the fact that he had moved on. She said she needed help getting over him, so Ted asked her out. She said yes, but everytime they were together she found herself wishing he was Barney.

Barney was currently dating a woman named Caitlyn. She was attractive and had caught Barney's eye right away. They started dating and not long after, Barney announced that he was in love. His friends were shocked when he told them that he wanted to give up his womanizing and settle down with her. But Caitlyn had a dark side, and more often than not, Barney was sitting at MacLaren's telling his friends all about what she had done to upset him. Tonight was one of those nights.

"Caitlyn caught me checking out this one chick," Barney explained. "And when Caitlyn called me out on it I told her that chick was hot, but not as hot as she was. Then she went off on me about how I had just admitted the other chick was hot. And she gave me the silent treatment for the rest of the day."

"That's harsh," Marshall remarked.

"She loves giving me the silent treatment," Barney buried his head in his hands. "I hate when she does that! I always say the wrong things."

"She's always so bitchy with you," Lily said. "She needs to seriously chill."

"It's not her fault. It's mine." Barney sighed sadly. "I keep fucking up and making her mad. I can't do anything right."

"That is so not true!" Robin exclaimed. "Barney, you're amazing. When we were dating..." She stopped herself. She was going to say, "you were perfect", but she was trying to get over him. Plus that would be awkward to say in front of Ted. So instead she said, "You did stuff right a lot of the time."

Barney smiled at her but she knew he didn't believe her.

Robin hated when Barney talked shit about himself. He hadn't started doing that until he started dating Caitlyn. He actually started a lot of things since he started dating Caitlyn, most of them worried Robin. He seemed sad. Although he was still his usual self, Robin could tell that he was hurting inside. She hated Caitlyn. Caitlyn was ruining Barney, and that made it harder for Robin to get over him. It was hard enough for her to accept the fact that Barney was dating another woman, but the fact that he was dating one like Caitlyn was bothering her all the time.

"Anyways, what were you people up to today?" Barney asked.

"Me and Robin went to the movies," Ted responded. "But we weren't really watching the movie, if you know what I mean. Right, Robin?" He put his arm around her.

"Yeah," Robin said flatly.

"What's wrong?"

"Oh nothing." The whole time that they had been at the movies, Robin was thinking about Barney.

"If you say so," Ted kissed her.

She noticed Barney had been looking at them, but when they kissed a sad look came over his face and he looked away.

Does he still like me? Is that why he did that? Robin thought to herself. No, there's no way. He has Caitlyn and besides we agreed to be just friends. She hated those two words. Just friends.

She would be thinking about this for the rest of the night.

The next day, Barney went over to Caitlyn's apartment. He hoped she wasn't still upset about the day before. She wasn't. She was upset about something else.

"Do you think I'm stupid Barney?" was the first thing that she said to him after he stepped inside.

"Um... no?" Barney was taken aback by her question.

"I know where you were yesterday. You were with that Robin chick."

"No I wasn't…"

"Oh so you're lying now? You were with her at that bar! I saw you."

"How do you know anyway? You're stalking me again."

"How else can I find out if you're cheating? You never tell the truth!"

Barney had cheated on Caitlyn quite a few times in the beginning of their relationship. He stopped after he realized his true feelings for her. But she hadn't stopped following him around and spying on him. Everytime she caught him doing something she didn't like, she was sure to bring it up the next time they met.

"I stopped cheating on you, I promise. Me and Robin are just friends." I wish I was lying just now, he thought to himself. I miss Robin so much. But she's with Ted now. She said she wanted to move on from me, and that's what she's doing. We should have never broken up.

"Bullshit!" Caitlyn slapped Barney hard across his face, snapping him out of his thoughts. Even harder than all the times Marshall slapped him for the slap bet. And this wasn't the first time she'd done it. She'd done it many times, as well as kicking Barney, pushing him, throwing things at him etc. He never hit her because he loved her to much. Besides, he thought that since he messed up so much, it was his own fault that she did it, so he had no reason to hit her back.

She hadn't started acting like this until a few weeks into their relationship, after Barney had already fallen in love with her. He never saw her sudden personality change coming. And it was killing him to try to be perfect all the time just so a day could go by for once when she wasn't screaming at him or hurting him. So things could go back to the way they used to be.

That's gonna leave a mark, Barney thought as he rubbed his sore cheek.

Caitlyn noticed the sad look on his face. "Barney, I'm so sorry." She gave him a hug. "Are you alright baby? I'm really sorry."

"It's all good," Barney said with false cheerfulness.

He was used to Caitlyn flipping out, then apologizing and acting like nothing happened. But it was never long until she was angry again.

That night, Barney walked into MacLaren's to meet his friends. Robin's heart skipped a beat when she saw him enter. It did that everytime she looked at him.

"Guys, the weirdest thing happened today. You won't believe it!" Barney exclaimed as he sat down at their usual booth.

He was about to tell them about Caitlyn slapping him but suddenly he changed his mind. He didn't want them to know. He didn't want them to know that he let himself be beat around by a woman. If he told them, they'd probably just laugh. And make fun of him. And Barney wasn't going to let that happen. One thing he had always hid from them was the physical abuse.

"Hey! Earth to Barney!" Lily was waving her hand in front of his face.

Barney didn't realize he had been sitting there zoned out for a bit, thinking about whether or not to tell them about Caitlyn.

"Oh, um..." Everyone was looking at him expectedly so he decided to make something up. "When I was walking over here, I saw this chick that I banged like last year, she said hey but I didn't know who she was until she told me. She asked me if I wanted to hook up again. True story."

"But I bet you said no because of Caitlyn, right?" Ted asked.

At the mention of Caitlyn's name, Barney's smile faded. But only for a second. Ted didn't notice. Robin did.

"Yeah, you're right," Barney replied. His smile had returned. "Because of... her. I turned down a perfectly good fuck, can you believe it?"

"I'm surprised," Marshall said. "It seemed like just yesterday relationship was a dirty word to you."

"And you were so determined to make me be just like you," Ted added. "But recently you were talking about marrying this Caitlyn chick someday."

Robin's heart sunk hearing those words.

"Well, shit changes," Barney said with a sigh. He was thinking about how perfect Caitlyn had been when he'd first met her. But then she changed.

Author's Note!

I know that was short but it was an intro chapter. I really wanna know what you all think before I continue so please review (: