I Can't Help Falling In Love With You Chapter 3: I Keep Falling in Love With You, a how i met your mother fanfic

Here I am again with the final chapter! I would love to keep going but the song is only three stanzas! Oh well, I'll start on another one soon! Review!

Like a river flows so surely to the sea
Oh my darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
So won't you please take my hand, and take my whole life too
Cause I can't help falling in love, in love with you
Cause I can't help falling in love, falling in love,
I keep falling in love with you

A loud wineglass clinked through the air and the room quieted.

"Hi," a very nervous looking Ted all decked out in a tuxedo began, "I'm Ted, Barney and Robin's best man. When I was asked to be the best man for this wedding, the first thing I thought of was this speech, it is after all my shining moment."

The crowd laughed quietly and Barney rolled his eyes as he toyed with Robin's new wedding ring. He was happy with his selection, not too much but not too little.

"Much as I did when I wrote our friend's Marshall and Lily's wedding speech," Ted continued, "I went through story after story about the couple. But nothing seemed quite right, so I decided to go a bit of a different direction."

Robin shot Ted a nervous look as to make sure he didn't go saying anything stupid. He returned her eyes with his "don't worry, I got this" look.

"I decided I would tell the beginning of the story of these two. It all started back a long time ago. Barney and I stood by the bar at McLaren's when a beautiful, brunette, Canadian caught my eye. It was like a scene from a movie, when a beautiful woman catches the eye of a sailor across the crowded dance floor. Nudging Barney I said "Hey, look at that girl…" Barney saw her and looked and me and said… "Oh yeah, you know she likes it dirty!"

The crowd erupted into laughter and Robin turned an unseen shade of crimson. Barney leaned over and whispered, "Oh come on, baby. No need to be embarrassed, its true." Followed by his trademark whip noise. Ted cleared his throat to regain the attention of the crowd and began again.

"Funny the way these two started off was with me in love with her. But fate is funny like that. If it weren't for my borderline creepy determination to get Robin, all of us wouldn't be here right now. But something in me drew me to her. Maybe its because I was really attracted to her but I think it was whatever and whoever is up there in the sky making me notice her and keep her around until Barney realized she was his '"one." So I did, I held onto her, for so long in fact that she earned her place in our little group. It's a weird way for two people to meet. The guy's best friend's ex who still hangs out with the group, that's not normal. But really, since when do these two do normal? And just as fate is a funny thing, love is too. These two don't need normal, they don't need logic, they don't need any stupid rules like "No sex with your bro's ex." Or that "you should never get back together with your ex" because even when they have these rules they'll just break 'em. They don't care about rules or what other people think or what is normal because they don't need them. All they need is he plus she to equal awesome."

They ebbed and flowed together like the ocean swaying and rocking to the music of the first dance. He inhaled her sweet vanilla scent and she smiled.

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you

"What the hell are we doing?" Robin sighed, leaning her head on his shoulder

"What do you mean?"

"This. Us. How does this work? Both of us, so insanely afraid of commitment, now getting married after dating for five months. I've never wanted anything more, but why?"

"That's exactly it, Robin," Barney smiled, "there is no sense to it. We're stupid and foolish and have no idea what the hell we are doing but it works. Me and you together; it just works."

"I tried so hard to fall out of love with you but I couldn't do it. And I am Robin Scherbatsky, I can do anything if I want to."

"Its not your fault, I'm irresistible." He purred into her ear

"Something like that…"

"It's the same for me, you know. No matter how much scotch I drank, no matter how much illegal business I did, no matter how many dumb tramps I slept with it was you, it was always you."

Shall I stay?

Would it be a sin,

If I can't help falling in love with you?

Her head on his shoulder, the music still flowing softly from the speakers, Robin began to speak, "Funny how we had to cheat on perfectly good people just to be together."

"Love is a mysterious thing. And fate works hand in hand with it. If we hadn't cheated on them, we never would have broken up with them. Then Nora wouldn't have gone back to England and never would have met her fiancée on the plane ride there. And Kevin wouldn't have felt the need to fill the whole in his heart that led him to adopt little Callie. And who knows where Callie would be without Kevin. Fate and love, baby, they wanted us to be together."

"You spend too much time with Ted." Robin stated, which Barney replied to with a laugh and a nod.

"That I do. Oh Robin! Guess what I just remembered!"

"What?" she asked quizzically

"I know the saying I was trying to come up with after we slept with each other! Its two negatives make a positive!" a smile grew on his face as he said it

"I guess its true, sin plus sin equals a home for a little girl, a new marriage and life in England, and the unification of awesome."

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
So take my hand, and take my whole life too
Cause I can't help falling in love with you

"Man," Robin began in an annoyed voice, "is it just me or is this wedding lasting forever?"

Barney laughed, "A lady saying her own wedding is taking too long, I really did marry the perfect woman."

"You know I'm only saying that because I want to get in your pants and do filthy things to you more than anything in the world, right?" she whispered seductively in his ear managing a groan out of him.

"Never ever leave me, Robin Scherbatsky."

"I never would, you're the only person I know that owns a sex swing. Not to mention all of those whips and red lacy outfits, not that there is enough fabric to classify it as an outfit, oh and those dirty dirty toys you own…"

"Robin," he squeaked, "don't make me do this. Not in front of my mother and everyone I know who is currently staring at us."

"Sorry, babe. I save that for tonight." She whispered

"Lily was right, we are meant to be," he said which got him a curious look, "I mean, who else would be saying that during the first dance at her wedding?"

"Only me. Only ever me. Did I tell you how excited I am to spend the rest of my life with you?"

"Oh I know, right? Just think of all the amazing places we'll go, and the mind-blowing sex we'll have, and the beautiful babies we'll make…" he sighed dreamily

"Barney Stinson? Talking about the possibility of offspring?" she looked him in the eye

"Well, yeah. Not right now but in the future sometime when we are nice and settled down I think they would be great to have, our little legen…wait for it…babies! Legenbabies!"

He got only an eye roll in response, "No more than two. I would love to have some one day though. I mean, seeing Marshall and Lily with Theo, he makes them so happy."

"That he does. Almost as happy as you make me."

Now they were quiet, only breathing each other in. They soaked up the joy of the moment, her hand in his, their bodies swaying in perfect unison. He kissed her forehead tenderly and she looked up.

"Barney, I love guns, ice hockey, and Canada. I am stubborn, violent, emotional, stocked full of issues, delicate, and walled up. Why do you like me anyway?"

"Because," he began, stroking her cheek, "You're perfect. Your love of firearms and ice sports and the great white north make contribute to you. Your stubbornness makes you determined to get what you want on your terms, your violence makes you stand up for what you believe in, your emotions make you human, your issues make your story, your delicacy gives me a job, and there is nothing, nothing, I would rather spend my life doing than taking down those walls, brick by brick, problem by problem. With every fight, every breakdown, every gunshot I am more amazed by you. Every moment I get to see your face," he sang now right along with the rhythm of the last verse of the song, "I… keep… falling in love… with… you."

"That's a pretty good answer."

~FIN~

Well, sadly my friends, that is the end. Now my dear fellow followers, favoriters, reviewers ( you should become one of them, they are pretty cool. Just click that button down there!) keep hoping that our favorite super couple happens. Thank you to anyone who took a minute to read my thoughts, it means tons. Review!

p.s. Also look up this beyond amazing song. I Can't Help Falling in Love with You, the Ingrid Michaelson version. I saw it in the commercial for Like Crazy (which looks fantastic, anyone seen it?) while watching the latest episode and it inspired this fic so give it a little love!