A/N: I just watched Dr Horrible's sing along blog (for the million time) and I just had to add something about it, because it was just genius! NPH is awesome

Chapter 3

Barney avoided Robin for the next few days. He still hadn't got over her not remembering him, so he tried to take some time to digest it all. He avoided the bar for four nights in a row, and he knew his friends started to notice. He got two phone calls from Lily and three from Ted on the fifth.

"Fine, I'll come to the bar tonight," he promised Lily, after she called him again from an unregistered number.

"Good," she sounded satisfied. "Don't even think of bailing. I'll hunt you down."

He regretted ever giving her his home address.

So that night he had no other choice but to get himself out of his apartment and take a cab to MacLarns'.

When he arrived at the bar only Ted, his girlfriend Victoria and Robin were there, sitting at their usual booth. He sat in the regular single chair, avoiding eye contact with Robin, and greeted them with his usual arrogant grin which he had practiced at home.

"Hey, guys, what up?"

"Oh, hey Barney!" said Ted, "Where have you been, man? You missed some awesome nights!"

Barney chuckled, "Huh, like you could have an awesome night without me."

They all ignored him.

"Okay, guys, I wanted to wait for everyone to show you this, but now that Barney's here, I just can't wait anymore!" Robin said excitedly, taking out her phone. "You won't believe what I've found on Youtube! It's just hilarious!"

"What is it?" asked Victoria, exited as well.

"You know how we saw Marshall's doppelganger the other day?"

Ted turned to his girlfriend, "I should explain. We saw an ad on a bus with a photo of a guy who looked exactly like Marshall, only with a mustache."

"Nice," Victoria giggled.

"So, anyway, I-"

"Hey, guys!" Lily and Marshall greeted them as they just arrived at the table. Marshall pulled another chair to sit next to Barney, and Lily sat beside Robin in the booth. "Barney, where have you been?"

"I-" Barney started to say, but Robin cut in.

"Wait, let me tell this one first!" she giggled to herself. "I found Barney's doppelganger!"

"What?!" everyone turned to look at her.

"You found my doppelganger?" that was the first time he spoke to her directly since the other night. Finding his doppelganger was really exiting and made him forget about his anger towards her.

"Yes! This is just so ironic, you won't believe it," she turned on her phone and showed them the video. It was a video blog of a blonde guy in a white robe who wore weird goggles on his head, and called himself Dr Horrible. He looked exactly like Barney.

"Oh my god, this is so cool!" Barney laughed, "My doppelganger is a supervillian, who has a blog! Try to beat that one!"

Lily looked skeptically at the screen, "Are we sure this isn't just Barney in a weird costume, trying one of his plays to sleep with someone?"

"As great idea as that might be, it's not me, I swear!"

"I donno," said Ted, "could be you, the blog thing works pretty fine, and I sometimes wonder about the amount of evil running down your veins."

"Ha ha," Barney said sarcastically.

"Nah, that could not be Barney," Robin said, still laughing, "the guy's singing about love."

"Right," said Ted, while the others joined her laughter.

"Whatever, he looks awesome. Can you send it to me? I want to watch it all!" Barney asked Robin.

"Sure, what your Email address?" Barney gave it to her, and she started typing on her phone.

The rest moved on to talking about the big test Marshall had to take for his Law studies, but Barney couldn't concentrate. Something about Robin's comment bugged him. She thought he wasn't capable of feeling love. That wasn't weird of her to think, he never gave her or anyone else a reason to believe otherwise. He did all he could to be this distant and unemotional guy, but it was still just a pretence. He would do everything to never give anyone another chance to break his heart. Two times were more than enough.

Suddenly he felt Robin's eyes on him, staring at him fiercely.

"That's weird," she said.

"What?" he asked.

She ripped her gaze from him and turned to her phone again.

"It says here that I sent you an email once."

Barney's eyes winded.

Crap.

"O-oh?

"Really?" asked Ted, confused, "Why would you send him mail?"

Robin's eyes were back on Barney, and his heart pounded fast in his chest. That was it, Robin finally realized it was him and she would tell the others everything. But after a few seconds, who felt like hours to Barney, she just turned of her phone and shrugged.

"Must be some sort of mistake."