Kiss
1. 2011
Barney takes Robin's chin in his fingers and he leans over and kisses her. Everything comes flooding back - all the other kisses, his body pressed against hers, his mouth, open and hot and wet against her flesh.
Damn him, he's right.
"Yep, still got it," He says with a half-laugh. Then he chuckles at her expression.
This time she doesn't say no, and when he kisses her again she forgets that they ever broke up.
"Let's not get married," he says.
"Let's not move in together," she counters.
He laughs. "I love you," he murmurs.
She grins. "I know."
2. 2009
Their lips meet, sloppy and awkward and too full of saliva and tongue and passion - tangled fingers in hair, thumbs against chins and cheeks, attacking each other so that they can finally shut each other up.
The kiss means everything and nothing. It's maybe the start of something that could end up as three days of passion or thirty years of heartache.
The kiss tumbles and clashes and needs and demands. It awakens a whole heap of trouble.
But Robin decides, on balance, that it's best to leave all that to future Barney and future Robin to deal with.
3. 2008
The kiss is hard and sudden and very unexpected. Robin may have initiated by a fraction of a second (so yes, she agrees later, after he stops moving inside her, yes, that means she initiated it) but Barney is as eager as she ever expected him to be. His lips finally express what he's been trying to convince her since practically the first day she met him.
The kiss tells her that he really does like her, and Robin knows that he's the only one who has a hope in hell of taking away the pain she feels right now.
4. 2007
"No, Barney!" Robin says, and she can still feel the warmth of his lips on hers. Boy, he's got soft lips and, wow, he's got plenty going on downstairs too. But this… This is waaaay wrong.
"Oh come on!" He laughs. "I never expected you to say yes!"
"Then why did you just kiss me?" She asks, exasperated.
Then he gives her the sweetest hang-dog look, that one where his forehead wrinkles and his eyes widen.
"You looked sad!" He says.
"Barney, it would ruin the dynamic of the group!" She huffs.
"You're blushing!"
"Am not!"
But she is.
5 . 2005
The kiss feels warm and soft and it steadies her. She hasn't known the gang very long and she's pretty sure that Ted is still "in love" with her (whatever the hell that means), and Robin still feels odd that they'd want to take her out to celebrate her birthday. She still feels like a bit of a stranger.
They all smile at her and, when Ted turns away, Barney kisses her on the cheek and winks. He's obnoxious and cute and irritating and gorgeous and he breaks the spell with his lips.
Robin has an awesome time that night.