A/N: Thank you guys for waiting patiently! Here's my next chapter.

"Maybe we have a chance." Marshall said to Barney in their usual booth. "I mean, what if me and Robin are meant to be together?"

"I have an idea. Dump both of them and bang a lot of chicks."

"No Barney, I don't want to do that. Can you just help me out here, please?" Ted was working late, which meant that the only person Marshall had to talk about this was Barney.

Barney sighed, "Okay. Well you don't uh… love Robin do you?"

"I uh, I think I do."

"That's crazy; you guys barely know each other. Pick Lily."

"You really think that I should pick Lily? But what about Robin, what do I say to her? I don't want to hurt her."

Barney tried not to smile. "I'll talk to her for you."

"No. No way. Robin is off limits."

"What are you talking about?" Barney asked innocently.

"You can't have sex with my ex-girlfriend. Last night she officially became my girlfriend. It's in the bro code, look it up."

"Come on. You're not going to be using her anymore."

"Why do you talk about women like that? Come on, she's going to be going through enough. I mean… look what she's losing over here. Don't make things more complicated."

"I won't try to sleep with Robin." Barney declared.

"Do you mean it?"

"It's the Bro Code." Barney said, shaking his head. "You can't break the Bro Code." Barney had thought about having sex with Robin for a while now He thought about it since that time that she invited him upstairs to play Battleship. The creepy thing was he didn't imagine just having sex with Robin. He imagined going to dinner first, like it was an actual date, and then he imagined cuddling all night. Gross. Cuddling was gross, and never under any circumstances okay, especially when it was Bro sex.

I guess there really wasn't a rule for Bro sex, because he'd never been into one of his bros before. Not that he was into Robin, that thought was completely insane. He just wanted to have sex with her. She said no, and that challenged him. He never backed down from a challenge.

"Barney, are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah, Marshall, I'm awesome. Why?"

"Because you looked like you were in pretty deep thought."

"Just thinking about what girl I'm going to bring home tonight." He said, lifting his hand up for a five.

"One day, you'll fall in love and you'll understand." Marshall said. He didn't know who he wanted to talk to first. He was making his way to his apartment, deciding that he would definitely tell Robin first. She was still technically his girlfriend, and Marshall Erikson wasn't a cheater, except, when he walked into his apartment, there was Lily.

"Hi Baby." She said with a smile on her face. "I just wanted to say, that I was acting so crazy yesterday, and I'm really sorry. I totally understand why you had to break up with Robin first."

Marshall nodded, wishing that he did break up with her last night. "I love you Lily." He said, avoiding her false statement. "I'm so glad that you came back, because I was so lonely without you, and I want to be together."

She smiled. "I'm really glad that you feel that way, because leaving you was so stupid of me. I should have married you, but my mind was just going a million miles per minute and I made a really big mistake."

He took her in his arms and kissed her the way that they always had before. The way that made time stand still and their thoughts of everything else disappear.

He smiled; all thoughts of Robin were miles from his head. His only focus was the woman in front of him. The woman that he was going to spend the rest of his life with. Flings happen all the time, but you don't marry those people, you marry the ones that you've loved since freshman year of college. You have fun with the Robin, but you marry the Lily. That's just how it goes. That's how Robin knows that it goes. She'd been thinking about it all day.

She cared about Marshall, a lot, and it was going to hurt, but she decided that she had to tell Marshall that they were over. It would save him the trouble of going back and forth between them. She didn't want to be a second choice anyway. She wasn't going to be the one that he turned to when Lily changed her mind. No. She had too much self respect for that.

So she decided that she was going to go to Marshall's and tell him that he should pick Lily. She was going to tell him that there was nothing left between the two of them and he owed her nothing anymore.

She took a deep breath before knocking. She was shocked to find that a half naked Lily answered the door. "Oh… Robin." She said. "What are you doing here?"

"I just came to talk to Marshall." She said, trying not to think the worst.

"Who is it Babe?" Marshall called from the bedroom.

"But, it looks like you guys are busy." Robin said, trying not to sound like she was hurt, but damn, she at least deserved a little heads up. She figured she was worth at least that to him.

She walked away from the apartment where Marshall and Lily were celebrating their reunion as fast as she could, but before she could get too far, half naked Marshall caught up to her. Just like him to not leave something alone.

"Marshall, what?" She said, not looking at him or slowing down her pace.

"I'm sorry."

"No, it's fine. I just came here to tell you that Lily was the right person for you."

"I was going to tell you before I told her, but she was just there."

"Sounds like a good reason to sleep with someone. Kind of like when we first slept together, right?" She stopped and looked straight into his eyes, eager for his response.

"Come on." He said, not denying her accusation. "You're great, Robin. Really you are, and I don't want this to ruin our friendship."

She smiled. "It didn't."

"Are you sure?"

She nodded. "I want you to be happy. I just, thought that maybe you would have broken up with me before you started sleeping with your ex-girlfriend again."

"I'm sorry." He repeated. "Really I don't know what I was thinking."

She sighed. "You weren't thinking. You were in love."

"So you're not mad?"

"I'm not mad." She said, honestly. "Now go back in there and nail Lily hard."

He hugged her. "I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, meet me at MacLaren's tomorrow night."

Robin was being honest when she said that she wasn't mad, she was just glad that he didn't ask her if she was hurt, because that was a completely different answer. She was surprised to find Barney, still alone at MacLaren's. He was usually home with a random blonde at this point of the night, usually one with big boobs.

"You look like you're thinking." Robin said, sitting across from him.

"You look like you're sad." Barney said back. "Talk to Marshall?"

"Oh yes. We figured we had to after Lily answered the door in her underwear."

Barney shook his head. "Rookie mistake."

"Your turn." Robin said, taking a sip from his drink. If it were any other girl, any other person, he would tell them to go get their own, but somehow it was okay when Robin did it.

"Don't tell anyone I told you this, but I'm starting to think that maybe random bimbos aren't the best thing in the world."

"Well I never thought that I'd see this day."

"I'm serious. I'm starting to think, what if I really am a one girl kind of guy and I just use all these… distractions, because I'm too afraid to go for the real thing?"

"Can I just tell you that the real thing sucks? Sex is awesome. Sex is fun. It's when you get into the kissing and the hugging and the "Hey, Robin, will you be my girlfriend," that's when people get hurt."

Barney gave her a weak smile. "Robin Scherbatsky has feelings?"

She took another drink. "Apparently so." She said, looking down at the table, feeling an awful lot like crying.

"Don't cry." Barney said softly.

She looked up. "I wasn't going to." She said, as if it was the most absurd thing that she'd ever heard.

He smiled at her. "I could really go for a nice glass of scotch and a cigar right now."

"Scotch and cigars sounds awesome."