Flashback: In the next couple of chapters I wanted to show how, in detail how Barney and Robin reunited and got back together. As previously said, Tracy is the one who helped B/R get back together but it was a reunion that actually brought them back to each other. So, I wanted to give more detail on how they came to be and how they got to where they are in 2030. I want to point out that they figured out their relationship on their own and the struggles both when they were apart and after they reunited and got back together. But, they worked out in the end and were better as a couple when they were secretly together and making the relationship work.

So, for these two chapters I will show how they got back together and after this I will go into more detail on their lives together in the years after 2018. So after chapter 10 the story will change slightly but I will keep it in a flashback mode in those years since the main year in this is 2030 which is the present year in the lives of these people. I also wanted to show how their daughter came to be and those years as well so 2025 to 2030 but I won't go too much into the pregnancy because it's not necessary in this story.

Sorry, for the long wait for this chapter I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with it and what time to write it but I hope you like the next chapters because it's going to be good. Also, spoilers Ted finds out about their daughter soon.


2018

It's funny about fate, sometimes when you're feeling like life has thrown you curve balls you find yourself either hitting them straight out of the ball park or you strike out. For Barney and Robin, it seemed like they hit them right out of the ballpark, because the spark that seemed to flare out was still there only two years after they decided to divorce. But, when life has gotten you down and things become more complicated and messy, sometimes you have to make tough decisions. In the case of Barney and Robin, it was loneliness, fear and the thought of losing each other that caused their untimely demise of their marriage.

It has only been two years since they split, and in those two years neither of them really moved on. Robin, found herself throwing herself into her work more, even more so than before they divorced. And, Barney had to find a way to distract himself from missing her. So, he did what he usually did, he started to sleep around again (without any plays and playbook) but bedding those woman made him even more miserable than he already was. Sleeping around again, trying to go back to the person he was before he decided to take the biggest leap of his life and get married. It made him realize that sleeping around made him feel empty, right before making the decision to ask Robin to marry him he realize just how empty, unfulfilled and unhappy he really was. He realized that he needed Robin in his life and not as just a friend. He needed to be with her, no matter how hard it was to find a way to get her back for good. He had to try, one last time to get her to see that he's 100% serious about them being together. So, he took that opportunity to write the final, last play in the playbook: The Robin, to win her back to make her see that he's done with his single life and ready for more, ready for that huge commitment that he was so afraid of letting himself want in his life.

But, if it wasn't for Tracy telling him that he was in love and in someway failed in his relationship with Robin. If it wasn't for meeting Tracy and having her come into his life and becoming friends. He wouldn't have had the courage to even try to get Robin back at all. No, he probably wouldn't have even asked her to marry him, but if Tracy didn't set him in the right direction he probably wouldn't have the life he ended up having.

It wasn't like he set out to run into her today, or this past year or even this past week. No, he didn't think he would even see her, since they split they hadn't seen each other in a year and a half. But, since Robin had taken sometime off for Tracy's 34th birthday party neither of the probably wouldn't have seen each other again. But, because they both RSVP-ed to the party they wound up arriving at the party at the same time. Actually, they had met before this at the train station for their trip to White Plains. In fact, they had bumped into each other on the line to get a ticket for the train.

She looked around just to see how busy Grand Central was, the line was a bit long and there was a 30 minute wait for the next train. She didn't think that he would be here or that he would really go to the party. But, because he's Tracy's friend he decided to go to the party because he had come to be friends with Tracy, the aftermath of the divorce really made them become more closer than before the divorce. It was nice for Barney to have an outsider of the initial gang as his friend and confidant. If it wasn't for her friendship, and seeing how unhappy and miserable he has been since the divorce. He doesn't think he would have been able to find a way to try to move on with his life. And, for the most part he did try to move on from Robin, but it wasn't easy trying to find ways of trying to forget about her and the big part she played in his life.

Tracy, is the reason he's here now and waiting on line to get a ticket for the ride up to the Mosby house. Neither, him or Robin thought that this moment would be the biggest moment of the following years to come for them. They didn't think they would end up where they ended up in the following years. But, because they ran into each other after two years being apart. Their lives had changed and it was all because of Tracy's birthday party and a little bit of an intervention and the part of Tracy to get them to where they ended up being in 2030.

To say she was shocked to see him would be the understatement of the last two years of her life. She never thought that once they went their separate ways that they would see each other again after all this time.

"Hi, Robin it's nice to see you again." He hadn't seen her since that final fateful day in Argentina because when she came back home and moved out of the apartment he wanted to make sure he wasn't there to see her move out of his life. It was too painful if he was there to see her leave his apartment and his life again after he tried so hard to get her to see that he wanted to be with her.

"It's nice to see you too, Barney." She says with a light smile on her lips.

To say that this moment would end up being awkward would be the understatement of the last decade of their lives. It was still painful to even look each other in the eye, let alone be as close as they are right in this moment.

"So, I'm guessing you're here to get a ticket to go to Tracy's party, huh?" Barney says a few minutes later after being in an awkward silence since saying hi to each other.

"Yep. Ted's invited me so I had sometime off so I decided to go to the party. I haven't seen everybody since..." He gets it, as painful as it is to even think or mention their divorce it hurt even more when he saw the sad look in her eyes, as she was about to cry or something.

"Yeah, I saw Ted and Tracy last week actually they needed a babysitter so they came into the city and I babysat for them at my apartment." Barney, hasn't really that close with their friends since they all pretty much went their separate ways and live totally different lives.

Marshall and Lily had decided to go back to Italy because they loved it so much when they were there the last time. Ted and Tracy are in White Plains and well, Robin was traveling everywhere around the world. So, it was just him in the city trying to get his life back to a normal routine. He's still not in his normal routine, his single days of womanizing and being single were over. He was officially done with that part of his life once he married Robin, so there was no sleeping around anymore even though he thought it was a good way to get over losing Robin. It wasn't. But, he tried and that's what counts.

Robin, wasn't doing good either… But, seeing Barney again brought back the reason why she hasn't moved on from the biggest mistake she's ever made. Admitting it to herself wasn't an option for her so she distracted herself with work and finding any kind of way to try to move on. Dating wasn't even on her mind in the last two years, so work was the only thing that made her feel slightly happy while still being unhappy and alone and feeling like her life had went from being the most happy she's ever been in her life to being alone and feeling as if she lost out on life when she thought she won at life when Barney proposed. It really hasn't been a happy two years for her and she is the only one to blame for her unhappiness that she so easily let slip away from her grasp.

"Oh, that's nice." The line was moving now and it was Robin's turn to get her ticket.

Barney then got his ticket and surprisingly Robin was waiting for her just a few feet away from the ticket window. He thought for a minute that she would have ran away, it's what she always does but surprisingly she didn't which made him smile a little to himself as he turned from the ticket window to see her standing there.

"Would you like to sit with me on the train?" He asks, it's the first thing he asked her once he got his ticket and put it away in his wallet then pocket of his pants.

"I would like that." She replies smiling, a little more brighter than before when she first saw him.

They walk towards the train tunnel where the train would be in silence. They really didn't know what else to say because usually they can talk to each other so easily but because it's been two years apart, it's hard to figure out what to say without seemingly mad or blaming things on the other that they didn't want to do. So, they walked in an awkward silence to the train and then onto the train where they find a seat for two and sit down together still in an awkward silence.

"Listen, I know this is a little awkward."

"A little awkward would be an understatement."

They both laugh at that at the same time, and the funny thing is. It's like they haven't been apart for two years. After that they started talking, really talking about everything and by the time they arrived at the White Plains station they were laughing and joking with each other. It was just like old time. When they are together, and the weird tension subsides. They go right back to the people they always have been when they are around each other.

That's how they ended up at the same place at the same time. They took a cab together and arrived five minutes before the party started.

Standing, laughing and smiling in front of the Mosby home was actually kind of nice. It was just nice to not be so awkward and weird with each other.

They ring the doorbell and Tracy opens to see them looking at each other and smiling. Her hand was on his shoulder and his arms was surprisingly around her waist and she didn't feel as if this closeness was weird. It's Barney, even if things have been weird and the tension has been strong there is something that she would never not admit to knowing. That is, that Barney, when he's near her as close as he is in this moment it feels really great to be as close to him after all this time and all the awkward tension between them. It's nice to not be weird around each other anymore.

"Well, I didn't think I would see the day when you two are smiling and happy with each other." Tracy says as she stands with the door open looking at her two friends laughing and enjoying each others company since it's been weird since the last time they were in this house together.

"We, ran into each other before on the ticket line. So, we came up here together on the same train." Robin explains, then Tracy moves aside to let them enter the house then closes the door behind them

The party was just about to start, it was now 6pm and the party starts at that time so it was good that Barney and Robin came to the party together. Because if they hadn't ran into each other, and if Tracy didn't see what they were so blind to see for themselves. Then, they wouldn't have the wonderful life together, with their beautiful daughter. They would still be in a lot of pain and still not happy with the way their lives went. All the regret started to remind them again that they were wrong about the way they left things on that horrible day in Argentina.

"Hey, guys it's nice of you to come. Didn't think you would show up." Ted said, the moment he saw them together, looking quite happy he was happy for them that it wasn't so weird and awkward anymore.

"Well, yeah of course we would. I wouldn't have missed Tracy's birthday." Robin teases with a smile rubbing Ted's arm briefly before turning to Barney.

"You want a drink I could use one?" She asked him and he nods his head and says sure.

"The usual?" She adds on, even though she knew what he wanted to drink she asked anyway to make sure it's what he wants.

"Is there anything else I would want to drink?" Barney says, she laughs and says no then walks away to the kitchen to find Lily helping Tracy with some food preps.

"Hey, you guys how are you?" Robin announced as she came into the kitchen with a smile.

"Okay, what is going on between you and Barney?" Is the first thing that Lily says to her, after not seeing each other for two years and barely communicating at all the first thing that her best friend says to her is what is going on between her and her ex husband.

"Really? Lily. I mean I just got here and I haven't seen you in two years. You are really going to start our reunion with 'what's going on between me and Barney?'" The says rolling her eyes at the notion that there's anything going on between them.

"Sorry. But, Tracy told me that you two came together and bumped into each other at Grand Central. She said you two looked pretty chummy with each other. Is it bad to ask my best friend if there is still something going on between her and her ex husband?" Robin again rolls her eyes and shakes her head.

"I guess not. There's nothing going on between us. We just saw each other in the train station after being apart for two years. Yes, it was weird seeing him again after all this time. But, there is nothing going on between us, we are just trying to be normal with each other after all the weird awkward tension between us. We, are good now though. We talked the whole ride her and it was nice..." Robin smiles and blushes lightly to herself. It was nice just to act normal and like their selves again after being apart. It was like they never had been divorced or apart from each other.

"Aw, Robin. You might want to deny it but there will always be something between you two. You still love him and I can see it in your eyes, in the way your eyes light up when you talked about your ride here. And, you are blushing. Robin, you do still love him." It, started with Lily and because she hadn't known her for that long. Tracy saw something during this conversation with Lily in the way Robin talks about running into Barney, talking on the train here and the way she blushes and laughs and then look away from Lily.

It's really telling. Now, Tracy hasn't known Robin and Barney for that long but in the years since knowing them she saw how happy and in love they were with each other, at the wedding and after. She knows love when she sees it, it's real obvious that Robin still loves Barney but isn't really admitting it. She's in denial again and needs the push to make her realize what she gave up… Her happiness.

Tracy's only know Robin for six years and in those six years she's come to understand her a little bit more which others don't see or understand. After all, she's a woman who had gone through a lose of someone who had taken years to finally move on from that horrible time in her life. Frankly, she isn't completely over it or will be but she told herself to either move on or live in this sad state of mind, so she moved on and found Ted and she couldn't be anymore happier than she is right now.

That's when she thought of a secret plan. Tracy had found out from Ted that the gang does these interventions for each other when they need someone to intervene and talk some sense into them. She decides to give Barney and Robin an old intervention without anyone else knowing about it. Because, as she watches this conversation between Robin and Lily she sees that Robin is living in that state of denial mind that causes her to deny and run from what she wants. And, what she wants is Barney.

She know how hard Barney took the divorce and it wasn't until a few minutes earlier that she saw him happy again. Barney still loves her too, obviously she's known that since the first time they met and it's obvious that this woman, is the only thing to make him happy again. Robin, makes him happy and Tracy knows he still loves her and from that first meeting, she knows that it's Robin that he will never stop loving.

So, Tracy comes up with a plan to get them to talk and realize how stupid they were for giving up their happiness because they are both obviously still not over each other and she knows they won't be, because they need each other in a way that nobody including themselves realize.

Luckily, the party went off without a hitch and everyone had fun. Robin, took this time off for the party and would go off to London the following week so Tracy has to act fast and get them in the same place or room sooner rather than later because Robin would be leaving again and she doesn't want for Barney and Robin to let this important meeting slip by them again.

The next day, after Ted went to work and the kids went to her mothers house for the day. Tracy finally calls Robin, she asks her if she wants to meet up for some coffee or something that afternoon. Robin is free and agrees to meet her in the city for lunch. She then calls up Barney and asks him out to lunch, Barney was also free because he first had no plans for the day and second had no job to go to, he has yet to find a job in his field since the whole FBI gig didn't pan out for him the year after he and Robin split.

"Hey, Trace it's nice that you asked for me to meet you I had a nice time at your party yester..." Robin pauses her sentence to see Barney sitting down to the right of her as she hugged Tracy.

"Um, what's going on?" She follows up after noticing that Barney is here too.

"This is an intervention. Minus the banner. Robin, you and Barney clearly are still in love with each other and you both are living in this denial land of yours. It isn't healthy, you two need to talk and tell each other how you truly feel before it's too late or you will regret it for the rest of your lives." That's when Tracy says her goodbyes and leaves without another word.

"So, that's how you got back together?" Ted asks, thinking it was nice of Tracy to intervene in their relationship.