AN: I have gone over this story, and some of my other but this had been closed when I wasn't done with it. I wrote an ending/epilogue but the I wanted to do more with this in the future. So, that's what I'm going to do to continue this. I corrected all of the errors I made and used Tracy/The mother more in this story, I also let Lily have a career in art so after B/R's wedding she does go to Italy. The correct timeline in this is 2013/beyond, so it's a future story and also a holiday story so that's what I wanted to do with this story originally. I have other baby stories, but this one gets into their family more so that's why I want to continue this.
"Merry Christmas Robin, it's time to wake up and start celebrating this holiday." Barney announced with a platter of breakfast in his hands for Robin.
Robin stirred and opened her eyes to the smell of freshly made food. It was her favorite meal, pancakes with maple syrup, bacon, eggs, orange juice and freshly made coffee. Barney had woken up early this morning to get ahead start on cooking and set the coffee. He had a good feeling that today would be great. This was their first Christmas as a married couple and Barney wanted to make it a fun and festive day for Robin, and he hoped that she was in a good mood for this first Christmas being married.
"What is all that?" Robin questioned, she had opened and closed her eyes for a brief second but opened them to ask what Barney has in his hands cause it smelled great.
"I made you breakfast, well technically I made us breakfast but I wanted to start this day off right. This is our first Christmas being married and I wanted to make this day a special one for us." Barney saw the look on Robin's face change from an annoyed frown to a smile and then she sat up in bed staring at the tray of food and then looked at her husband. She smile again.
"Thank you Barney." She said with a thankful smile. Barney sat the tray on Robin's lap and said.
"No thank you's today. Today is our day to be together, we have been working so much lately and barely spend much time together since we went back to work after getting married. I just want to spend some time with my wife on this first Christmas as a married couple." Barney hoped that she would be happy and joyful about this because he's seen her stressing over work a lot and he's been too busy and tired to really focus his time on her, so spending Christmas at home together and enjoying this time they needed was in his mind a great thing for their relationship and newly married status.
"I know, I've missed spending time with you too." She told him taking a sip of her coffee. "I'm glad you made breakfast and the coffee is quite good too." She smiled and bent down to give are a quick kiss on the lips before leaving the room to get his own food. He came back to the room and sat next to Robin in bed.
"So, here's the deal. Today, I want you to have a fun time and not worry about anything. We don't have to work again until next week, after the new year we will worry about whatever, we worry about. What I have planned is going to make you so happy." Barney paused for a moment taking a bite of his pancakes then looked over to Robin. "So, what we'll be doing today is is nothing, we are just going to stay in all day. I turned off both our phones earlier, I turned the computer off so we don't have to look at any emails or be distracted by it, I also told the gang to not disturb us. Last, I bought some movies, Christmas themed including ones you have wanted to watch for a while now and we will order in Chinese for dinner tonight." He hoped that this would make Robin happy again, she had been really moody lately and work had stressed her out so this day is all about her.
"That sounds like a great plan." Robin loved this idea because she truly missed Barney even though she sees him everyday. She missed just spending days together in bed or just being with him but ever since she went back to work she didn't have much time for that.
"Great. So, later after breakfast I will run you a bath and we will take it together. It's been a while since we did that together." He smiled remembering the last time they took a bath together. It was quite some time ago, when they were sneaking around when they dated. But, it was such a fun bath and it even got them in the mood and had made love while taking the bath. This put a smile on Robin's face too, she remembers that day very fondly it was quite early in their relationship and they didn't even know what they meant to each other then, however it was one of the best memories of being with Barney before it went South the first time. But, now it's different, they are happily married and still very much in love but the stress of work and not being able to spend time with each other. This was another great time and a great memory that will last forever in her mind just like the last time they took a bath together.
"Sounds great." Robin replied happily taking him up on his offer.
"And, then after that we will exchange the gifts we got each other before dinner and then after that we'll start watching the movies. I bought popcorn yesterday." He was so excited he finished his food in a matter of minutes and she was still working on her food but it made her laugh. That's the thing with him, he always finds a way of making everything legendary and it was part of the reason why she fell in love with him in the first place.
Robin turned to Barney who was standing up holding his tray to take back to the kitchen. He looked at her and saw a slight tear in her eye.
"Are you okay?" He asked coming over to her side of the bed after setting the tray back down on the nightstand.
"Yes." She started crying more and it made Barney sit immediately on the bed next to her and pulled her into him. She rested her head on his shoulder as she sobbed more and he wondered why she suddenly got so emotional.
"It's just... I love you. I'm just so lucky to have you in my life." She said between sobs, this made Barney smile and then he pulled her face off his shoulder to look at her face cause even when she cries she looks beautiful. He wondered how that was possible for a moment but then he said.
"I love you too. I love you so much and I think I'm the lucky one cause I don't think anyone would have loved me the way you do." This was true, he was slightly wondering why he got so lucky with Robin it sometimes makes him wonder what if he never met her... but that's not the problem to raise or question right now.
Robin stopped crying after sometime but after she did Barney decided to run the bath earlier than he planned on but it was a good thing after Robin cried earlier. The bath was soothing, they just sat there with candles and soft music playing on the ipad and talking about everything they haven't talked about since they went back to work. Robin told him about Patrice, she had shockingly gotten engaged over the summer and Robin didn't know she even had a boyfriend until last week. But, she is happy for her nonetheless and work had been busy with constant news coming in on the hour and her needing to be there everyday to do the broadcasts. And, Barney told her about Arthur Hobbs retiring in a few months, he had decided to do his retirement early and asked Barney to take over his position at the company. It also allowed for a pay raise one where it gives him/them the money to actually buy the townhouse they had looked at before getting married.
It was a great bath, after the bath Robin had gotten tired so she went to lay down for a couple hours before they have dinner. Barney, truth be told, had been worried about Robin for a couple of weeks. Every time he saw her she looked a bit sick, like she just threw up. It wasn't how she used to look before two weeks ago, but it worried him that something was up with her. Robin had become really tired lately and every time he tired to talk to her about it, he never got far due to interruptions or her being too tired to talk to him.
Robin woke up an hour and a half later still exhausted she was starting to wonder if it's just work that was making her tired. But, she just decided to not thinking about it but when Barney saw her when she woke up the question was brought up.
"Hey, did you sleep well?" Barney asked noticing she was still looking quite tired but didn't ask her why.
"Yes, I slept well but I still feel tired." Oh, good she brought it up which is good cause he didn't want to upset her if she didn't want to talk about why she was feeling so tired.
"I noticed. I wasn't going to say anything but since you brought it up first I have to ask. Why are you so tired lately?, you look very pale and like you are sick I'm beginning to worry about you." He hoped it didn't upset her too much but he has to know why she looks so sick.
"I've been worried too I just don't know why I'm so tired. It's really weird, I've never felt this bad since that day I got food poisoning." Barney wanted to make a joke about that but this wasn't the time to make jokes since he is really worried.
"Do you think you need to see a doctor I mean you have been this way for two week I think you should see a doctor." Robin wanted to argue with this but didn't and agreed that she should see a doctor.
"Okay, I will call to make an appointment on Monday." And after she realized that Monday is New Years Eve she decided to call after Christmas is over.
