Title: Share and share
alike.
Rating: PG
Summary:
You won't share your food. You won't wear a costume. – Lily
(Slutty Pumpkin, 1.06)
Spoilers: 1.06, Slutty
Pumpkin
A/N: Since the series is about the two of
them talking about it without really talking about it, each chapter
will be have one of them doing something. (That is a really bad
explanation. I hope it made some sort of sense to you.) So, we'll get
started with Robin. Again, a whole lot of thanks go to roland44 over
at LJ for her beta.
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Robin Scherbatsky did not share food.
Everybody knew that, either having been at the receiving end of her glare or seen someone physically wilt under the power of the Scherbatsky death-glare. Marshall and Lily saw it first hand, saw her pretty much destroy a budding relationship with a guy who liked her simply because she could not share her ice-cream sundae. Ted had laughed it off, thinking that the stupid rule did not apply to him, only to find Robin slapping his fingers away rather painfully when he tried to take her fries. Barney, well Barney didn't believe in sharing food either. He could never be too careful with his food, what with half the population of Korea wanting to poison him.
She did not share food and neither did she expect others to share food with her. She saw it a bit like life, really. If she saw something that others had and that she wanted, then she'd go out and get it. She didn't go around sticking her nose into their lives and sharing their food with them.
It thus came as a shock to her, when, one night at a bar, she found herself actually pushing her plate of pasta to Barney, persuading him to get a bite. Eyebrow arched in surprise, Barney leveled a look at her that made her toes curl and sent a blush to her cheeks. Then with a cheeky smirk on his face, he leaned over, making very sure to brush his arm against hers, and took that bite.
