Well, it's almost that time of the year again so I wanted to write something on Thanksgiving. It is almost Thanksgiving so I wanted to write the gang in the future, turns out this turned into a B/R fic instead of a gang fic. So, I wanted to explore a happily married Barney & Robin in the future as well as the gang and what they're up to. I came up with this idea, B/R in the future starting from 2016 (the awful failnale year for my beloved couple) so I came up with this idea to share and I hope you'll like it.

Story: Starting in 2016, Barney and Robin host the gang's annual Thanksgiving feast, it's a tradition in the gang and everyone in the gang get to host it once a year. This time however, Barney and Robin host it and it's their first party that they're hosting since getting married.


Barney and Robin are happily married three years into their marriage but there might be something missing in their lives. As the gang celebrate Thanksgiving together, a happy and married Barney and Robin make the biggest decision of their lives and marriage. Up until now, they are happy with just the two of them but there is something that is missing in their happy married lives. Tracy, is very much alive throughout this and there is no plan at all to kill her off she's a main character in the story just as the others are. Tracy, is now a big part of their lives since joining their little gang and now their little gang is a slightly bigger gang with kids. So, I hope you enjoy this story, it has some canon stuff within the story and I wanted to explore it because it's important especially for B/R.


2016

Thanksgiving, was always the time of the year when the gang dropped everything that they were doing to come together as a family. But, over the years, the gang's small family of five became a family of many. On, this day every years they all come together at someone's house. In the times when it was just the five of them, Marshall, Lily, Ted, Robin and Barney the usual Thanksgiving get-together was at Ted's old apartment. But, now the gang isn't just the five of them and they don't live in that apartment anymore. Every year, on this day the gang although everyone is scattered around and not together much as they were back in their 20s and 30s, they still get together every year at someone's house. Last years Thanksgiving get together, was at Ted and Tracy's house. The house just finished being renovated, it took years for the house that was pretty much a wrecking ball that should have hit it long before Ted even bought that raggedy old house. But, after so many years and a lot of time getting the house to look more like a home. Ted and Tracy, finally moved in to it a couple of months before last years Thanksgiving.

The two Thanksgiving's before that though, was supposed to be hosted by Marshall and Lily. However, those plans never happened due to Marshall and Lily going to Italy, and Lily being pregnant and taking care of her kids and trying to make something of her new found art career. She had minimal success in Italy, but nothing bigger came of her moving their for her job so after a half year, they decided to go back home to New York. With, two kids and Marshall trying to find a new law job they were too busy to do the gang's annual Thanksgiving get together. But, this year. This year, Barney and Robin are hosting the annual get together. They didn't want to do it at first but with Marshall and Lily not being able to host this year again and Ted and Tracy backing out since they held the get together last year. It was all up to them to decide if they wanted to host this years Thanksgiving.

"No, absolutely not. We are not the types to be hosting anything, if I need to remind you of the last two events you or I or both of us had to host, it really didn't go as well as either of us wanted." Barney, had just came home from work on this day, it was four days before Thanksgiving and after being cooped up in an office all day, he didn't want to come home to start an argument over Thanksgiving with his wife.

"I know, the last two events didn't go as we hoped but nobody wants to do this years feast so at last minute Tracy called me before to ask me if we can host it this year. I couldn't really say no, you know how she is, she never let's me get an answer in edge wise so before we hung up and after telling her no a few times, I gave in and decided to have this get together here this year. Tracy is so persuasive, I just can never say no to her. She reminds me of you, in that sort of way." Barney looks at her with an odd look but kind of understands what she means by Tracy being able to get her way almost all of the time since they known her.

"She's also kind of like Lily too, although she's not pushy like she is." True, Robin thought. Wow, this gang is a bit insane if you ask her but what else can she do now that she agreed to host this event this year.

"Alright, fine but if anything goes wrong it's not my fault." Barney, hates hosting these kinds of gatherings because it always ends up being too chaotic and crazy by the end of it. But, the good thing is is that he won't be slapped anymore since that is over and will never happen again at any time.

"Fine. I will call Tracy and tell her that we're hosting." Robin, picks up her phone and goes into the bedroom to call Tracy to tell her that this years Thanksgiving will be hosted by her and Barney even if they don't want to do it.

"Yeah, hi Trace. I talked to Barney about Thanksgiving and we are fine to host this year." Robin, hated how easy it was for Tracy to get her to cave whenever she wants to say no or get out of something. Ever, since her wedding day it's been that way between the two girls but just like how she used to be with Lily, she caves and gives in every single time she wants to not do something.

"Oh, great thanks Robin. Ted and I just don't feel like doing this again this year and since I'm pregnant it's a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. You know I would host it but it's just to hectic and crazy for me to do it this year again. Maybe, next year when after we have this baby." Robin, kind of felt bad that it seemed like Tracy wanted to host again this year but due to her pregnancy she didn't feel up to it and she agrees that she shouldn't be hosting this either.

"Your welcome, I'm sorry I was agitated earlier but me and Barney are horrible cooks and not great at hosting things like this. It's why before you came into the gang Lily always did Thanksgiving. But, we are happy to host it." Robin, tells her sounding sincere and a bit saddened by the tone of Tracy's voice on the other end of the line.

"We will see you on Thursday. Bye, Robin thanks again for doing this for me and all of us." Tracy and Robin say their goodbyes and hang up both smiling happy that they have gotten to really become great friends in such a short period of time since knowing each other.

Robin, really loves Tracy and thinks of her as a best friend. Robin, is forever thankful to Tracy for helping her with her slight mental breakdown on her wedding day. If it wasn't for her, she would've made the biggest mistake of her life and she would never get over that and would have regretted it every day of her life. But, Robin is ever thankful for Tracy knocking some sense into her and calming her down that day, she married the love of her life and hasn't regretted doing so, if she left Barney all alone at the alter that day she would have lived her life with the biggest regret of it. Letting, down the only person in her life she's ever truly cared about and loved so deeply.

"So, how did the call go?" Barney, asked when she reappeared from the bedroom looking up from her own cell phone to give her his full attention.

"Good. Thursday, is all set up. We do have to tell other people, even if it is last minute." Robin, says as she comes to sit down next to her husband on the couch. Barney puts his phone on the coffee table, then turns to Robin smiling.

"Great. I have to tell my mom and brother that we're hosting our first Thanksgiving as a married couple and it only took us three years." He says this as a joke but all that Robin can think of is that Tracy really, truly was her lifeline on the day of her wedding. She can't help thinking that it would've liking ruined both her life and Barney's if she left him as the alter that day.

"What?" Barney asks, wondering why she's looking at him all weird but with this glow of shine in her eyes.

She doesn't say anything, all she does is leans in pulling him into her kissing him deeply and passionately since he came home. If, she made that huge mistake it would've ruined her life beyond repair, breaking this man's heart for the millionth time broke her heart even more than all the other times he broke her heart it makes it all the more heartbreaking.

"Wow, what was that for?" Barney asked after they broke the kiss. His head was spinning at how unexpected and thrilling that kiss was. He wasn't expecting such love all of a sudden, but he isn't saying he doesn't like this sudden brush of love over his lips.

"I love you. I hope you know how much, because it's true I do love you." She tells him, causing his mouth to break into a more bigger smile than he had since breaking that kiss.

"I love you too." He tells her sincerely, he really doesn't know how he got this lucky to have this amazing woman as his wife but somewhere in his life he did something right by making her his wife, his forever. Having Robin in his life and making her his wife was the best thing to ever happen to him.

A second later she's giving him this eye of 'I want you now' that kind of look when she needs to let him know just how much she loves him and how much she needs him, almost making that huge mistake three years ago would've killed her heart of regret but at last minute she knew she couldn't leave the man she loves so dearly and so deeply behind without even a note as to why she had ran away from him and her happiness.

He grabs her hand and they get up from the couch, he drags her to the bedroom and for the next hour and a half she definitely showed him just how much she needs him to know how much it was true, she loves him just as much now as she did on their wedding day and if she made that mistake it really would've ruined her life forever.

The next morning, Barney is suited up ready for work as he talked to his mother on the phone about his Thanksgiving plans. He hoped that Loretta was free for Thursdays annual feast, he knows she would love to come and hopes she does since it's the first time ever actually hosting something that isn't fake, and he's hosting it with Robin.

"So, yes mom we're having Thanksgiving here this year if you'd like to come we would love to have you here." He tells her, walking over to the coffee pot pouring himself some hot liquid after the night he had with Robin, he barely slept because they couldn't keep their hands off each other or lips away from either one's body long enough to actually sleep. He needs the coffee, but hopes Loretta says she's free and coming to the Thanksgiving he's hosting.

"Of, course dear Sam and I would love to come. I just have to talk to him first so I'll call you back to let you know, okay." Loretta, had made previous plans for Thanksgiving with Sam and his family. After, Sam proposed they had been planning a wedding but Sam wanted to spend Thanksgiving this year with Loretta and his family. But, Loretta was thrilled that Barney called and asked her if she wanted to come to his dinner feast this year instead.

"Okay, talk to you later I gotta go to work." They say their goodbyes and hang up, just in time for Robin to appear behind him, wrapping her arms around him from behind.

"Good morning, I woke up and you weren't in bed with me. I felt kind of alone, but I'm glad you're still here and not one foot towards the GNB building." She says, smiling as she presses her face against his upper back, he smiles to himself then turns around in her embrace.

"Good morning, to you too. My, my you're a sex kitten aren't you, what's gotten into you all of a sudden?" Barney, loves all the loving he's getting right now from her but he's curious to know what's going on with this sudden need to want him in the way she does right now and last night.

"I-," She pauses trying not to get too emotional about this but he should know about this now and she couldn't allow herself to keep it from him any longer than she needs to. "I, remember right before we got married, that little moment in the reception tent, when you came to me to tell me that you weren't going to lie to me anymore?" She wanted to make it up to him, to apologize for the way she was acting right in that moment before he showed up in the tent and made that beautiful vow to her. She, had kept this inside since that day but now she needs him to know that she's sincerely sorry about the way she was acting that day.

"Yeah, why?" He asks, wondering why she's bringing that moment up after all it is three years since that time, it's weird to bring anything from their wedding up at this time in their lives.

"Well, before you came to me in the tent and told me that you weren't going to lie to me anymore." He nods as he listens to what she's telling him.

"Right, before you came to me I had ran into Tracy." She says and he interrupts with "Yeah, I know about that moment you told me before, when we were at our reception." She nods in agreement remembering she did tell him about her run in with Tracy.

"Right, but what you don't know is that I only ran into her because I was running away from our wedding." And, the look on his face changed with curious to worried in a second flat.

"Well, I knew that too. Why are you bringing this up now?" He asks, wondering why it was so important to bring up that time when she would've broken his heart even more than it already was, but he doesn't hold it against her, he freaked out that day too but he put that behind him because the only thing he's ever wanted was to marry her because he loved her more than anything else in that moment on their wedding day.

"Because, I want to apologize for running away from you, from us again. I've been beating myself up all this time, regretting that I ever felt like giving up on the only thing that made me happy. You." It's the most honest she's ever been in her life and with him but he needs to know that she's absolutely, 100% truthful and honest and sorry for wanting to leave him at the alter over some small issues she has had for along time.

"Robin, look at me." She wasn't looking at him, she couldn't because if she did she would just break down and that couldn't happen right now. But, she looks up anyway hoping that he's not angry with her over that little minor screw up moment she had before they got married.

"I get it, really I do but don't beat yourself up over being worried, scared and concerned about my commitment to you. I was scared too, I even wanted to escape the wedding out the window for a while there, but I didn't because I realized that I couldn't let you down again. I couldn't leave you like that, because, I would've hated myself all over again knowing I let you down if I ran from our wedding." She looks at him with tears in her eyes, fully regretting ever thinking of letting him down again just like he let her down many other times before.

"Hey, I don't hold that brief moment of worry against you. I could never hold anything you did against you, if I did I would have lost you to something or someone else. I just couldn't let you down after the whole park, locket fiasco. I forgive you, no actually I forgave you along time ago and I don't need to forgive you for having doubts about me before our wedding. So, trust me when I say that I love you anyway, sure you were scared about my commitment to you but don't ever think I don't love you enough to not hold something you did against you." As, she wiped her eyes with her hand he hands her a tissue and smiles widely at her.

"I love you, Robin don't ever doubt my love for you because I love you more than anything and I'll say this for your ears only, although I think I might have confessed this to Ted. But, I love you more than anyone, ever and I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy and trying to make you proud of me. Because, Robin Scherbatsky-Stinson I love you so damn much." And, she's crying again just as she was trying to stop the tears they come out more fuller and faster than they were before.

"Barney, Stinson how did I get so lucky to have you in my life?" And, he wonders the same thing. Every, single day he wonders why she loves him the way she does and how he got so lucky that she actually does love him.

He, shrugs his shoulders and smiles. "I guess we both got lucky, huh?" Still smiling, he continues. "I know, we've made some mistakes in the past and if I held all those mistakes against you or myself I would probably die of breaking your heart."

"You, know the biggest mistake was not being honest with myself. When, I chose to stay with Kevin." And, now it was getting too serious and he's going to be late for work so he tells her…

"Don't worry about it, okay? I love you and I forgave you for that along time ago. Again, I can't begin to hold something I couldn't control against the woman I love more than myself. It was your decision to make, I tried to tell you then that I loved you and I did and still do. I never stopped or could stop loving you more than I can stop breathing." And, now she's thinking this is getting a bit too mushy and romantic with the things he's saying so she ends the conversation with.

"I know. I am sorry for that whole situation but Barney, I did love you then and I love you even more now than ever before." He smiles even more brighter, thinking it's good to talk about this stuff even if it's old news and something he tried putting behind them a while ago.

"I know, I love you too. Always!" He smiles and gives her a kiss before grabbing his suit jacket and coat to leave for work he was already 10 minutes late to work but hey he could do anything he wants because he's the boss now.

"See, you later." He tells her, walking to the door.

"Oh, my mom said that she needs to talk to Sam about Thanksgiving but she said she wants to come." And, with that he leaves to work thinking that things have gotten even better with marriage. His life, now has been fulfilled with so much love and understanding and Robin was the only person who he trusted enough to not truly hurt him as much as she thinks he has.