Disclaimer: I do not own How I Met Your Mother and never will. Nor will I make a profit from this fanfic.

I, like many, was not happy with the ending to HIMYM and was thinking of all the different possibilities of an ending when this came to me. This is going to Robin/Barney centric. I am not sure how long it will be as I just started writing it on the fly but we will see. Thank you for reading.

Chapter 1: It all started when

Prologue

They all sat in Ted and Tracy's living room, drinking beer and scotch while updating each other on parts of their current lives they may have missed since the last time they'd gathered.

Marshall was trying unconvincingly to only say good things about his new job at a law firm. Or maybe he actually liked his job and everything Robin heard tonight sounded negative?

She tried to pay attention, or at least appear as if she was, but her nerves were getting the better of her.

Barney and she had big news to tell the group and they hadn't discussed how they were going to present the big choice they had made while away. Now that she thought of it, it seemed obvious they should have planned this out. However, considering they had been living their lives in the moment up until this point a plan hadn't happened.

Maybe she could telepathically send Barney a message to abort the mission?

Robin tried to stealthily make eye contact with Barney while Lily talked about karma calling their phone or something. Once he caught her eye she concentrated as much as she could on what she thought could be the feeling of transferring ones thoughts to another, if that was possible.

"Barney I can't do this! Abort mission Argentina!"

If Barney was hearing her thoughts he did not have time to answer as the question she'd been dreading all night came up.

"Hey what about you guys, how was Argentina?" Tracy asked.

Robin felt her palms start to sweat as her and Barney made eye contact. Could everyone else see the panic that had to be written on their faces or was she just imagining it?

"Great, it was great. It was great." Barney said.

"It was great," crap she sounded just as bad as Barney.

"It was great," Barney repeated.

"It was great. It. Was. Great." Robin shook head and closed her eyes.

Good lord which one of them was even talking? Had they really both just repeated great over and over? How many greats sounded bad? Not a good start.

Everyone was giving them weird looks which was justified considering they sounded crazy.

"One more and I'll believe you," Tracy said smiling awkwardly.

Dammit why did Ted's wife have to be so damn perspective? Barney and her used to be great liars, what the hell happened?

Robin and Barney sighed and glanced at each other. The gig was up.

Could they tell them?

What would their reaction be?

Maybe they could make something up?

As if Barney could actually hear her thoughts, he slightly shook his head at her. It was a negative to the abort.

Well this was it then, they were going to tell them.

"It all started when…"