So this is a fanfic/songfic kind of thing. I'm using a different line from Adele's song "Someone Like You" for every chapter because she, and this song, blows my mind. All the chapters are stringed together into the plotline that I hope happens next season with the whole Barney wedding thing! I recommend listening to "Someone Like You" before you read it just to help capture the emotion and mood to the chapter but it will work whether you hear it or not.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own How I Met Your Mother or the characters or Adele's amaaaazing song If I did I wouldn't be here writing fanfiction!

I heard that you're settled down

That you found a girl

And you're married now

I heard

That your dreams came true.

Guess she gave you things

I didn't give to you

The gang sat around the table discussing work and sipping beer. They were all deep in conversation about whether Ted should use arched doorframes for the new GNB building, all except Robin. She sat unusually quiet, playing with her watchband. Most of the group was still working on their first beer, but Robin was already on her 4th. She had been like this ever since Nora and Barney had gotten serious. She went into a state of denial that nobody could seem to get her out of, let alone get her to admit it. Ted had tried to talk to her the night before when he had walked in on her crying.

"Robin Scherbatsky? Are those tears I see?" He said jokingly

"Shut the hell up, Ted." She had replied, with much anger packed into her quiet words

"Robin, what happened," He demanded, "Tell me. You clearly need to talk."

"Get a life, Ted," she said in a piercing, breathy voice, "and stay the fuck out of mine."

She stormed out of the living room and into her bedroom, slamming the door behind her.

Just as the group had concluded that adding arches to the doorways would add class and a vintage feel to the building, Barney walked in, fingers interlaced with his new foreign adoration. Robin took a deep breath, determined not to cry.

"Hey guys!" He said pulling up a chair for his new lover, "we have big news!"

Robin gripped her beer so hard it could shatter at any moment, a lot like her heart. Her breaths were short and bated, uneven as the beats of her heart. She dared to look up at the beaming couple.

"We're engaged!" The foreign dark haired beauty exclaimed with glee

Robin could feel her heart breaking and the tears welling up in her eyes. She tried to look happy as the gang cheered and hugged the sickeningly good-looking couple. She couldn't keep the tears in any longer. She suddenly rushed to the bathroom as the hot drops rushed down her face in a flood. Nobody noticed her leaving as unusual; they all just thought she had gone to the bathroom or to take a call. Nobody, but Barney. He excused himself and slyly snuck into the women's restroom where Robin sat on the ground, pitifully sobbing.