A/N

Ahh, I love this chapter so much. It's adorable. I left a major spoiler for one of the names! Also, I got a little carried away with the nursery, oh well! The baby shower is cute, but the scene after is so domestic and ordinary, which I love. The more true to real life the scenes in this particular story are, the more I like them. Please, as always R/R! :)

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Lily and Tracy had argued with Robin for hours about her baby shower. She did not want one. It took a long time, but they, collectively with Barney, finally convinced her to have one. They were going to plan it for her and all she had to do was show up. Robin made them swear it wasn't going to be a super boring party, with women sitting around gushing over onesies. Instead it was going to be a huge party. They had decided to hold it in Ted and Tracy's backyard so there was a lot of space for everything.

The day arrived and Robin and Barney got to Ted and Tracy's house at eleven am. Three hours after the other members of the gang arrived and began setting up, and two hours before guests arrived. The first thing they saw when the taxi pulled up was the pathway to the door lined with fairy lights and pink balloons. At the door, a chalkboard read 'Two months to go!' in calligraphy, that they assumed Ted wrote.

"Oh, my god." Robin muttered as she and Barney walked up the pathway and into the house.

"Hey! Is that the guests of honor?" Tracy called out. They went into the kitchen and exchanged hugs with Tracy and Lily, who were inside. Everyone was working excruciatingly hard.

"What can we do?" Robin asked. She looked around at what everyone was doing. In the backyard, Ted was mowing the lawn. Marshall was on the deck, putting up decorations. It looked like a unicorn exploded pink everywhere. In the kitchen, Lily was cooking and Tracy doing drinks.

"Just the decorations." Lily replied.

"On it." Barney said, going outside to help Marshall. Robin sat on a barstool at the counter and watched with intrigue as Lily expertly cooked without a recipe.

"Try this." Tracy said, handing Robin a champagne glass filled with some sort of drink mixture. "Don't worry. It's non-alcoholic." She added quickly, seeing the worried look on her friend's face.

Robin took the glass and sipped. "Oh my god, that's delicious! What's in it?" The drink was fruity and sugary. It satisfied the cravings Robin didn't even know she had.

"Secret. There's no alcohol here though, so feel free to drink anything." Tracy replied. She continued pouring the mysterious and delicious pink drink into champagne glasses. Tracy filled a whole tray and Robin offered to take it outside. She stepped out of the kitchen and carefully carried the wooden tray out the backdoor.

Outside, Ted was finishing mowing the lawn and Barney and Marshall were working on putting up a string of pink lights on a bush. The veranda was quite small, so the party was going to mostly take place on the lawn. When you first walked out onto said veranda, there was a table that already had a few pink wrapped gifts placed on it. There was a banner hanging above it that read 'Thanks for helping us celebrate Robin & Barney's happy accident!' Robin laughed when she read it. There were strings of lights and pink streamers there too. Down the steps, there were a couple of folding tables set up. One already had a couple of trays of drinks on it, so she placed her tray beside it. Behind the tables were foil, helium balloons that spelt out twins. There were pink balloons everywhere. There were even pink water balloons in a tub. Robin smiled and picked one of them up. She threw it at Ted's back.

"Hey!" He yelled spinning around. She just grinned at him.

"Robin!" Lily yelled from the kitchen. "Come try this!" She spun around and went back into the house to taste test.

At one pm on the dot the first guest arrived. It was Patrice. Robin was all smiles to her face but the second she went outside, Robin shot Tracy a glare so intense, she was legitimately scared.

By one thirty, the party was in full swing. Most of the guests had arrived. Robin was in a conversation with Tom and a woman she worked with, when Barney ran up to her, excited.

"Robin, Robin, Robin!" He was jumpy.

"What?" She asked, slightly irritated.

"Come with me!" He practically yelled, putting a hand on her wrist and beginning to pull her in the direction of the stairs. She shrugged helplessly to Tom and her coworker and allowed Barney to pull her over to the drinks table. A woman turned around as she neared. It was her mother.

"Mom!" She yelled, enveloping her.

"Darling." Genevieve said sweetly as she hugged her daughter back. "Katie, look." Robin's twenty-nine-year-old sister spun around.

Katie grinned at Robin. "Hey."

"Hey." Robin replied, letting go of her mother and pulling her sister closer. After they pulled away, Robin leant back, against Barney. He put his arms around her neck and planted a kiss on her cheek.

"Oh, by the way, Robin, this is my boyfriend, Adam. Adam, this is my sister Robin and my brother-in-law Barney." Katie said, pulling a man towards her. He was huge, he towered over Barney, and looked very Canadian. He was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey and biceps bigger than his head.

"Hey." Robin greeted. "You're a fan of the Maple Leafs? I'm a Canucks fan."

"Huh. Are we gonna have a problem here?" He probably meant it jokingly, but it came out so threatening that Barney pulled Robin closer to him. He found it highly inappropriate for someone to say something like that, something that could be so easily misinterpreted.

Katie laughed, trying to clear the awkward atmosphere between Adam and Barney. "So, Robin, where are your friends?"

Robin scoured the backyard. In the far corner of the yard, Marshall and Lily were talking to The Captain, most likely about art. Tracy was close by, talking to James and Loretta and Ted was carrying a tray of drinks from the house. As he passed, Robin grabbed one. "Here's Ted, Marshall and Lily are talking to her boss and Ted's wife, Tracy, is talking to Barney's brother and mom." Robin pointed each person out as she mentioned them. Genevieve struck up a conversation with Ted while Katie and Adam flounced off in the direction of Marshall and Lily.

As the party wore on, and Genevieve finished talking everyone else's ears off, she finally started drilling her eldest daughter. Robin was stacking plates and glasses up and trying to take them inside, while Tracy and Barney were attempting to stop her.

"Will you stop!" Barney scolded his wife as she brought in yet another stack of plates from outside.

"This isn't Ted and Tracy's job, Barn." Robin said.

"TRACE!" Barney called.

Tracy came inside. "What's up?" She then saw Robin stacking plates into the dishwasher. "Stop it! Seriously, Robin!"

"What?" She asked innocently.

"We can do that later. Go mingle. Talk to everyone, enjoy this. We're not even halfway through the party yet." Tracy said.

"Fine." Robin reluctantly agreed.

Barney smiled. "Thank you." He took her hand and they went back outside. The couple went to the drinks table and got glasses of Tracy's concoctions when Genevieve came up.

"Darling, can we talk?" She asked.

Robin chugged the rest of her drink before turning to her mom and plastering a fake smile on her face. She knew she was about to be lectured. "Sure mom."

"Are you sure New York is the best place to raise a child? I mean you have a tiny apartment with no lawn. I want the best for my granddaughters."

"The best place to raise children is where Barney and I are. We want to stay in New York. Sure, we don't have a backyard, but babies don't need a backyard. Our apartment isn't that small either. It's got three bedrooms." Robin replied.

Genevieve frowned. "Babies need vitamin D."

Robin rolled her eyed. "Okay mom, I'm done with this conversation now." She gave her mother a quick smile and then went into the crowd to talk to people.

"Can everyone gather round? We just want to say a few things before we hand the mic over to the soon to be parents!" Ted called through the microphone. People cheered as they all headed over to Ted. He was on the top step of the patio and everyone gathered on the grass below him.

Marshall took it from him. "Thanks for being here today, everyone! I know Robin and Barney really appreciate it. So, if there are any party crashers in the crowd, who for some reason decided to crash a baby shower-" He was forced to pause by everyone's laughter, "-then Barney and Robin are the couple over there."

Ted cut in quickly. "Robin's on the right. They're about the same weight, so it may be hard to tell which one's pregnant."

"I WILL KILL YOU THEODORE!" Barney screamed. The rest of the crowd was in hysterics laughing as Robin and Barney forced their way to the front and took the microphone from Ted.

"Thanks, we'll take over." Robin said, trying to contain her laughter. "Stop sulking, Barney."

He reached out to take it from her. "Yeah, as Marshall and Ted said, thanks for coming, thanks for the gifts and thanks for all the parenting tips, god knows we need them. Robin and I are really glad that Au-" Barney was cut off by Robin shoving her hand over his mouth swiftly, to stop him from blurting out one of the names. "That the twins will be born into a world with so many family and friends who love them." He quickly corrected himself and then flashed a mean smile to Lily who was groaning because she wanted to know what names they had chosen and she was so close to finding out.

"Ok, we have one last surprise for you guys." Ted said, reaching out to take the mic.

"This was totally Ted and Marshall's idea, we take no credit!" Tracy yelled, as she and Lily stepped away slowly.

"Marshall now!" Ted ordered. Buckets of cold water dropped down onto the unsuspecting couple, from the roof where Marshall was perched. "Happy baby shower!" It was a warm day, for Spring, but certainly not warm enough to be drenched in freezing cold water. Both Barney and Robin were standing still, gaping.

Barney used the back of his hands to wipe water from his eyes then turned behind him to where Marshall and Ted were standing, laughing at their own joke. "That was the stupidest idea ever. And a lame pun." He turned to his right where Robin was still standing, motionless. "Are you okay, babe?" He murmured, suddenly fearful. She nodded and opened her eyes.

"I am going to kill them two though." She threatened, grinning. Robin reached to her side where an untouched bucket of water balloons was sitting. She started pelting them at the two men, who squealed like children. Barney's eyes sparkled as he got an idea. He ran to the side of the house and turned the hose on, then brought it back around to the front of the deck. Guests ran for cover as Barney pulled Robin behind him and aimed the hose at Marshall and Ted.

Before long, it had turned into a full-fledged water fight. Most guests had joined in, and everyone was throwing water balloons at each other. By the time people started to leave, almost everyone was drenched from head to toe in water.

Towards the end of the party, Barney and Robin were sitting on the porch steps, laughing and sipping lemonade when Katie and Adam came approached them.

"Hey guys." Katie said, smiling.

"Hey, what's up?" Robin asked.

Katie grinned, obviously trying to suck up to her sister. "So…the hotel we were going to stay in is all booked, so we don't have anywhere to stay tonight. Could we stay at your apartment?" Barney and Robin exchanged glances.

"Sure, but we don't have anywhere for you so sleep. The former guest room is now a nursery." Barney said.

"Don't you have three bedrooms?" Katie asked.

"Yeah, but one is just full of crap we dump in there so we don't have to look at it." Robin said. "I guess we could blow up an air mattress though, if you don't mind sleeping in the nursery."

"Woah, there's baby crap everywhere!" Katie commented as she entered the apartment. Barney pushed past her so he didn't drop the stack of baby shower gifts on the ground.

Robin looked at her sister in confusion. "Duh. The babies are due in two months, and we're prepared."

"Here, put your bags in the nursery." Barney said. He and Robin lead Adam and Katie to a room and opened the door. Robin looked around the nursery proudly. It had taken ages to do, but looked beautiful.

The room was big, square and wallpapered. The bottom half of the wallpaper was white, and looked like paneled wood, and the top half was a baby pink with white polka-dots. At the far end, a large window had white curtains. Underneath the window was a white changing table. It was already stocked with diapers, baby powder, wipes and pretty much everything else essential for a changing table. The changing pad was white with rose gold zigzags. On either side of the changing table were white dressers. The dressers were already stocked with clothes. On the walls vertical to the dressers, were white cribs, both with pink sheets. Although the bedroom was carpeted, there was still a fluffy white rug in the middle of it. On one side of the door was a white rocking chair, with a pink blanket tossed over it. Opposite to that, on the other side of the room was a white toy box, already overflowing with toys.

"It's super pink and girly in here!" Katie exclaimed.

"Yeah, dummy. We're having twin girls." Robin replied.

Later that night, Adam and Katie had retreated to the nursery where the air mattress Barney had blown up was. Barney and Robin were on the couch. She was laying with her head on Barney's lap and he was massaging her back. She was eating a tub of Oreo ice cream with Cheetos mixed in. Barney kept his eyes peeled to the screen so he didn't gag. Some of her food choices were disgusting.

"Robin, where's the-" Katie paused, looking at her sister. "What the hell are you eating?"

"Oreo ice cream and Cheetos. It's delicious. I'd offer you some, but there's hardly any left." Robin replied.

Katie wrinkled her nose. "Gross."

"Oh, you wanna go Scherbatsky?" Robin asked, slamming the carton down on the coffee table.

"Yeah, Stinson. Let's go." Katie replied. Barney couldn't contain the grin on his face at his sister-in-law calling Robin by his last name instead of her maiden name. He stood up and pulled Robin with him, as she was struggling to get off the sofa. The two neared each other, mock furiously. Robin grabbed the almost empty carton and threw it at her little sister, showering her in melted ice cream. Robin laughed and ducked behind Barney, using him as a shield from her sister.

"I am actually going to murder you!" Katie yelled, but even she couldn't contain her laughter. She charged for the couple, and as she neared, Barney threw her over his shoulder into a fireman's carry.

"I've got you covered, babe." Barney laughed, dumping his sister-in-law on the couch. Robin giggled and pressed a kiss to his temple.

"Yuck, you guys are gross. And for the love of god, stop calling her babe. It's disgusting." Katie said with a hint of disgust, causing the other two to laugh.