Kids, it was spring of 2012 when your Aunt Robin got a new job, but we'll get to that later.
"Hey, have you ever thought about how suits come in different forms?" said Ted crossing the room into to get a beer from the fridge.
"Yeah sure," said Marshall on the couch with Lily (as usual) "I mean like scrubs must be business casual for doctors, and those weird pharmacist jackets that are just oddly long with pockets in weird places, I guess they're-"
"Challenge accepted!" Shouted Barney bursting through the door. It was a Saturday night, the gang was coming over for a movie and then down to Maclaren's. Barney, who had obviously been listening through the door, continued "I will get a woman to have sex with me whilst wearing a pharmacist lab coat. Coat, Ted, it's obviously not a suit, c'mon."
"Where's Robin?" Lily asked to no one in particular. No one had seen Robin since Wednesday.
"I'll call" Said Ted, walking to the phone. He dialed. Maybe she was in Canada, he thought, thinking that she should've called. He dialed the phone on the 4th ring she picked up.
"Hello? Ted?"
"Hi Robin, where are you? It's kind of noisy right now. Are you coming?"
"Sorry Ted, I have to work late tonight and I won't be home."
"But wait, where are you?" Said Ted. Lily, Marshall, and Barney steadily became more attentive to the conversation, all wondering what was keeping Robin; she almost never missed group things.
"I'm kind of on a plane, and it's complicated, I have to go, projects to complete, notes to assemble." She hung up. Ted looked at the phone and put it down. "She's not coming guys." He said in a passive voice, as if he was expecting this to happen.
"She really hasn't been around since she started that new job." Said Lily. Marshall agreed, "What does she do exactly? At her job I mean…" He asked.
Barney gave a quick look of concern, but immediately switched back to disinterest as if catching himself. "Yeah," he said shifting awkwardly in his chair, "What does S.H.I.E.L.D. even do?"