A/N: I came up with a story, I had been trying to come up with another long story but couldn't think of anything but I finally came up with this story because this is how things IMO should have gone in season 5 when B/R broke so quickly.

Story: Barney and Robin decide to elope after a conversation they have makes them realize and understand their problems occurring in their relationship before they quickly broke up.

"We, ah... We got married." The happy newly wedded couple excitedly says surprising their expecting friends at their traditional get-together at their favorite bar.

The couple shows off their new sparkling wedding bands on their left hands.

"WHAT?!" Lily shouted. She thought that they were broken up but obviously they aren't.

"Yeah, we eloped and went to Vegas over the weekend. We didn't want to tell anyone so we left without telling you." Barney says still holding his wife's hand.

"I-I-Wow, I can't believe it. I thought you two broke up?" Lily's shocked, she never thought that this was going to happen so out of the blue like this.

"We, yeah about that..." Robin starts explaining as she and Barney sit down in their booth, smiling ever so brightly. They hadn't stopped smiling in 36 hours, their smiles still plastered across their ever beaming faces. They look at each other for a moment then back at their friends.

"We were broken up..." Robin sighs sadly then continues.

"We realized, after a long conversation both over the phone and at his place that we gave up too soon. We realized that we, really do love each other and that giving up so quickly after only six months of being together was a rash decision. So, I went over to his place to pick up some things I left at his after we did breakup and started talking. Really talking, letting everything that we kept inside for months come out, in the open and what we came to understand is that we are those type of people who don't like telling everything to everyone and we are too single minded to let other people in. The problems we had, we realized that those problems could have been solved in a good conversation." Robin looks over at Barney who nods in approval and she smiles at him and continues.

"So, we sat down and had the talk we had been putting off since getting together. We discussed everything, all of our issues, everything we kept from one another came out and by the end we realized we were being stupid and gave up too soon. We decided to commit to each other, after so long being so confused and unsure of things we realized we needed to start putting each other first before anything else, if we want this relationship to work. We still loved each other and were engaged before we broke up, so we decided to try and make this commitment to each other because we missed each other." Robin was almost in tears but with Barney holding her leg steady underneath the table her nervousness slowly stopped as well as her shaking leg. Barney's touch reassuring her that he's there is she starts to have an emotional breakdown.

"But, that doesn't solve the answer to my question." Lily's a little annoyed but still fascinated by her friends story.

Barney and Robin look at Lily giving her a look, not knowing what her question was. They were so giddy, excited to just be married and tell their friends that they didn't hear Lily's next question as Robin explained why her friends suddenly got married after breaking up only a week earlier.

"What question was it?" Barney asked, he was so in awe watching Robin talk that he didn't even know Lily asked another question.

"Why did you decide to get married instead of just working things out and getting back together?" Lily's happy for her friends, truly is but something doesn't fit in this conversation. Barney and Robin's explanation about deciding to make this huge commitment to each other seems odd for two people who are so anti commitment and is scared of it.

"Well, remember when you locked us in a room a few months ago? We had decided to give this relationship a real try." Lily nods, remembering pestering her friends to sit and talk about their relationship and what they mean to each other. They ended up going to brunch that day and talked about their relationship but most of the things back then that weren't talked about is why their relationship started to crumble and that ended with them ending their relationship too soon and too quickly after only a few months of dating.

"We also remembered that day, we realized that you were right Lil. Having the talk, no matter how difficult it may be actually made sense to us again. So, when we sat down at Barney's apartment we really talked, and all of our problems, frustrations, fighting about not relevant things, not seeing eye-to-eye on anything and trying to one-up each other didn't solve anything. We are so in that mind set that we can't talk to each other without shutting each other out and shutting down our minds. We also realized that we still loved each other and wanted to be together. We learned through our conversation that there is so much love between us and by just giving up so quickly the way we did wasn't a good decision, it was a solution but not a very thought out solution.

"So, I asked her to marry me. For real, we didn't want to make a big deal about it so we didn't tell anyone and just eloped because we knew that you weren't going to take this idea of ours well. We went to Vegas and spent the weekend getting married and just spending time together before coming home." Barney finishes for Robin clearly still trying to hold back her tears from falling from her eyes.

"Oh, wow... I can't believe it but I'm really happy for you guys." Lily's happy but the guys were just sitting there in silence trying to comprehend what just happened.

"We're super happy too, thank you Lily I knew you would be supportive of us." Robin and Lily get up from the booth to give each other a hug. "Congrats, I really am happy for you." She then whispers "I knew you two would work things out." In Robin's ear which made Robin smile and say thank you.

They broke their hug and then it was Barney's turn in which Lily wanted to have a private conversation with Barney about this whole marrying Robin thing. She's happy for Robin but knows that Barney isn't this committed type guy, she really needs to know more of his opinions on this sudden announcement.