Okay, this title might change but until I can come up with a better title this is what this title will be.
This was originally supposed to be a one shot but because of how the story goes it will be multiple chapters but I'm not sure how many chapters this will have. I had this idea for this story because I wanted a fixit story for the horrible finale. So, I came up with this interesting way of not just for a happy ending for Barney and Robin but a happier more believable ending for Ted. I'm still not happy with that with that finale or like I've always said failnale cause it just sucked.
Barney and Robin's having a happy ending is all I want for them because they deserve it after everything they dealt with in their lives both apart, together, as friends and as a couple. FYI: The paragraph below you don't have to read since it isn't really important to the story but it's there just to explain more about the story.
Sometimes in life, things happen. Rather it's good or bad or sad or even exciting things just happen. That is just how life is, it's how life works but whatever happens in life don't ever regret the things you do and most importantly don't ever forget the people around you who make your days be good, bad, sad or excited because whatever you do in your life don't ever regret or take things or life for granted because when you least expect it, things happen and even though sometimes it's for a sad reason things are always put back together. Sometimes, people can't be fixed. No, actually people aren't fixable, they are human beings, they aren't a toy or broken glass. Sometimes things can be fixed but people can't be fixed because life just doesn't work that way.
2030
Six years ago, the small group of friends had lost a key member of their little group. The last member to join their little group, after so many years, so many missed opportunities and so many things happening and a special day changed their lives forever. And, for one of them he thought he would get to live that life he always wanted but tragically things happened and that last key member of their little group had passed away. And, now one of their friends is in a bad place in their life. They all tried to help him, put him back together but he isn't broken glass that can't be fixed so they all began to get concerned for their friend.
They think he's living in the past, he keeps randomly telling stories of his past self when he was younger and they all had been more closer as friends. Unfortunately, life happened, things happened and although it was something sad and tragic the small group of friends started to come together again, in sake of their friend who was in need of a little nudge (okay, a big nudge) to point him in the right direction because his life just seemed to be stopped in a time when things were much easier for him.
"I told you, he's clearly living in the past. He thinks you're dating him. This has to stop, he's gone insane. Look, I know he's been through a lot in the last six years. But, I'm concerned for my bro. Things happen, yes it's sad but we need to move on no matter how tough it gets or how much more denial he can be in. We need to do something because this isn't healthy." He used to be the less wise one of the group, the one who made up stories and told many lies. But, now, he's not like that anymore. Sure, once in a while he tells fake stories and sometimes real ones too but he isn't delusional, he isn't living in his own little world anymore. He has grown and learned over the years, ever since he found that person. That person who has always been there, who he loves more than anything in the world and the only person who truly always understood him.
Barney Stinson, is a lot of things. Well, he used to be a lot of things, like a womanizing psychopath, an untruthful liar, a crazy lone wolf but then everything changed and he found that other lone wolf and now they are a lone wolf pact, just the two of them… Well, actually no. The three of them. And, their pact is as he used to always say awesome because life changes. You don't go in circles, you go forward, you wake up in the mornings and just do life, whatever it brings you. You move forward, not backward and move on with your life. That's why Barney is worried, he's worried for his friend, he understands what he's going through but it's getting to a point where his friend is clearly losing himself a little more with each passing day. He's worried because he, himself has it all figured out and his friend had once had that too but things happen and sadly for his friend he lost that and slowly lost himself in the wake of his sadness and loneliness.
So, now he's sitting in his house on his couch with his wife talking and thinking of how he will get his friend to wake up and realize that he's living in a dream world. In the past, a past that was sure fun and carefree but now things have changed and even though it's sad he needs his friend back. The one who he's trying to bring back from the past.
"I know, he thinks he brought me the blue french horn again and I'm living in the apartment I used to live in. He's clearly has lost it. I'm worried too, but what can we do? There is nothing we can do to help him and much as we all tried to he doesn't seem to want our help or want to believe that he isn't living in this dream life of the past." They are sitting on the couch watching their daughter play on the floor a few feet away from where they're sitting. She smiles over at her five year old daughter grateful for the life she has but sad for her friends life and trying to figure out what to do to help her friend.
"I guess, we'll have to just let him live in whatever fantasy world of happiness he wants to live in or we'll try to get him back to the guy he once was." Barney said, looking at his wife as her hand gently rubs his leg slowly up and down as they watched their daughter play over in the corner of the living room.
"But, how do we get him back to normal? How can we fix him if we don't know how and he isn't helping either because he seems to just want to stay in that past life forever." She tells him with a worried look as now she's looking up at her husband sitting next to her trying to figure out exactly how to help their friend.
"We're lucky, if I ever lost you I don't know how I could begin to move on or how to forget you and clearly he's trying to forget that Tracy ever existed." He moves a little bit on the couch but doesn't move his position or gets up, he's getting a bit tired sitting here but he likes the view he sees of his daughter playing on the floor across the living room.
"And, to think we almost did lose each other. Not in the sad way that Ted did but in the we're never getting to be together again way. If I ever did lose you, I'm not sure if I can move on but I do know that I would not be living in the past or trying to relive it someway. I would just move on and try to find happiness but I won't be living in the past and trying to recapture the memories of it. Although, I would remember everything of you and of us but I won't go back and try to change the past or relive in some fantasy way that poor Ted is. I would get up and move on with my life even if I can never forget the love of my life." They look at each other and smile brightly, kiss and then look at their daughter play on the floor. He drapes an arm around the back of her and she embraces it and moves in closer to him resting her head on his shoulder, smiling that her life is absolutely perfect and to think at one time she didn't want this and another time she almost lost this too many times over the years.
"So, how are we going to get Ted out of this funk memory of his?" Robin asks, not knowing what to do in these situations, she's always been bad at these types of life things but wants to help her friend in anyway she can to get him back to normal.
"I don't know, should we ask Marshall and Lily to help us? I mean, I know they aren't around much these days and are quite busy but should we?" Barney asks this now, wondering if their other friends would help them out with this situation.
"I guess we can try to call them, they have both been so busy lately I don't know if they would help since they aren't living in New York anymore." Robin, knows that Marshall and Lily had tried to help Ted out, around the time when Tracy just passed away but after a year, they had moved out of the state. They even living in Italy for a while before moving back to the states.
"I will call them, I hope they're available because this needs to stop, and stop as soon as possible because I'm a little scared and a lot worried that he will do something even more crazier than re-stealing the blue french horn and trying to win you back again. The man is crazy, he needs help and I'm quite sick of the hold he thinks he has on you. This fantasy world he's living in is not healthy or good for either him, us or his kids who also seem to be worried about him too." Robin, hates that he feels this way, she hates the feeling that he will one day wake up and it will be true and she will be somehow with Ted again. It's not a good feeling to have, she loves him and that's it. She loves him, always has and if Ted thinks he can still get her in someway then he's wrong and it's unsettling to think of him thinking this way. That's always been a problem, it's always been Ted standing in the way of their happiness and it sickens her to think about it happening again.
When she slowly and nicely tried to turn him down when he suddenly showed up at their door the other day, it scared him but worried her and now they have to deal with the problem that Ted thinks he's still in love with the past, still in love with her and is still in this deep depression over losing Tracy. So, now Robin has to face up and tell Ted what's really going on. She's more upset about this for Barney's sake, not her own because she doesn't care much what Ted thinks or does because there is only one man in her life and that's her husband, whom she loves and has a family with. He's the only one in this situation who she's most concerned about over this terrifying but sad situation.
"Yes, hi Lily I-we need to talk to you. Are you free to stop by or should we go to you? We need to talk about Ted. I'm worried about him, he's getting worse by the day." Lily sighed over the phone, knowing that this was going to happen, knowing that it's going to get worse if they don't do anything to stop this madness going on right now. She is really worried too about her friend and this situation going on.
"Um, yeah actually we can come into the city and meet up some place. How's Saturday?" Lily said, hoping that Saturday is good for all them to get together.
"Yeah, that's fine we can meet in the city how's Maclaren's?" Robin asked, knowing that this plan could work if they discuss it in their old hangout since it's a good place to talk and since it has so many memories of the past it could help Ted get back to normal.
"That's fine, so what is the plan?" Robin tells Lily the plan and Lily's impressed by it and thinks it actually could work.