Just Give 'Er

One night she gets wasted - and it's okay because she's with friends and they're wasted too - and she snaps. Robin Scherbatsky hears one of them (probably Barney) say "Canada" with dismissive disdain and just. snaps.

She wants to eat beaver tails. She wants her winters to last, for toque-shopping to not be such a weird concept. She wants to make fun of Toronto. She wants to have a poutine-eating contest and watch every single Oilers game and party on the first of July, not the fourth. She wants to go home. No one is gonna stop her; she is getting back across the border where she belongs because she misses it like hell.

...Apparently she said all of that out loud because now Ted, Lily and Marshall are staring at her in shock. Like she's a deer they might scare away with one false move. Barney looks surprisingly guilty. Apologetic.

"Sorry, Robin. No more Canada jokes."

"Promise?" She huffs out.

Barney places a hand over his heart. "Promise." The others nod their heads in agreement.

Appropriately satisfied, Robin points out Ted's ugly old-man watch and revels in his expected defensiveness.

It only takes eighty-four minutes for them to go back on their word.


Written for Lady Fest '10 over at Livejournal. Prompt was How I Met Your Mother, Robin Scherbatsky, "no more Canada jokes".