Sorry for my complete and contemptible lack of writing, I don't know what's happening to me! I realize some of this is a bit modern, but please just roll with it, or make suggestions as I'm no history buff. Anyway, even though it sounds dreadfully corny, I heart y'all for reviewing; please keep it up!

Lily's POV

She picks up the stick and she can't believe it. She can't believe her eyes.

Positive.

Oh goodness, it's positive. A lovely, fantastic individual that's purely Marshall and her is growing inside her. She drops her hands protectively to her abdomen, wondering what her little miracle is going to be like.

It's not like she wasn't scared about being pregnant or even being a mom, because she was, but she was pretty damn excited about it too.

How could she not be? Every little girl, aside from Robin, dreams of having a smaller version of herself and whoever it is they love.

Sure it means no more drinking and acting a touch more sane, but isn't it worth it? Finally done lacing up her corset, she rushes back in to find whoever it is she loves.

He cocks his head up when he hears her enter. He smiles fondly at her; see seems so thrilled. Lily takes a deep breath and the next words fall out of her mouth seemingly effortlessly.

"Marshall, I'm pregnant."

"So," Robin walks into the bar with Meg in tow, "What's this big news you two just had tell us?"

Barney frowns; why is Meg with Robin? His worlds are colliding and he doesn't like it.

"Don't know, they wouldn't tell us until all of us were her," Ted says nonchalantly, pecking Meg on the check and gesturing to the beaming couple.

"Alright Lily, shoot." Robin sounded uncharacteristically Meg-like.

Both Lily and Barney scrunched up their faces. Lily motioned that she wanted to talk to Ted.

Once they were in private, Lily whined and crossed her arms. "Teeed, why'd you invite Meg? You always bring your random skanks to everything!"

"First of all, Meg is not a random skank, and second, I didn't invite her. I think Robin brought her."

Lily huffed off and had a quick conversation with Robin. She seemed to have made peace with the situation though and was back to being cheery in a few short minutes.

Ted sighed pleasantly as he'd seen Lily do this thousands of times. He turned around only to walk straight into Barney, who uttered a simple, "Ted, a word?"

"What's up bro?"

"Well, Meg and Robin are friends now, ya know?"

"Yeah, Meg can't stop taking about it. I think it's really ni-"

Barney cut him off, but Ted was used to that by now. "I don't like it; it's a bad idea. What if they fight? I can't be in the middle of that."

"Barney-"

"So I've already thought of a few ways we can break them up, so to say-"

"Barney! You're being crazy!" Ted half yelled half laughed. "So they're friends, deal with it. What are you so scared of?"

Barney dropped his eyes to the floor.

"Wait… You're jealous! Barney Stinson, you are jealous! I never pegged you as possessive?"

"I'm not jealous! And what you call possessive I call being a man." Barney stated indignantly, arms crossed.

"Whatever bro, we should go back anyway. Robin's probably forgotten all about you by now, what with her new friend and all…" Ted teased while Barney shoved him.

As they settled back into the booth, Lily waved her hands anxiously to quiet everyone down while Marshall gripped her protectively.

"Alright, alright," Lily bit her lip. She opened her mouth then closed it, perplexed. "Ya know what? I think you should tell them, Marshall."

"Really?" She nodded. "Well, guys… we're pregnant!"

Cheers erupted from everyone, even Meg. Knowing that soon there would be another awesome person in their group made everything seem okay.

Lily leaned in and whispered to Marshall. "We're having a baby."

"We're having a baby."