They sat on Robin's old bed for another few minutes with their hands around each other and their heads pressed against each other. It's moments like these that makes them feel complete. They, have each other and now Barney is the only person who knows what she went through as a kid and teenager. It was her oldest, deepest, most personal secret she's ever told to anyone. It's her biggest secret, but now Barney knows everything about her and doesn't seem to care that her past was as messed up as it was. He, loves her and accepts her for who she is and it took her sometime to really let anyone in, to see her for who she is and it was Barney who accepts every single thing about her that makes her the woman he loves now. If, she didn't have him in her life she doesn't think she would have ever let anyone see who she really is.
"Robin, lunch is ready." Her mother announces as they sat quiet holding each other on her childhood bed.
'Okay, we will be down in a bit." Robin, shouts back as she and Barney pull away from each other but not all the way.
"Hey, I know you have had this big secret but I'm glad you shared it with me. As, much as I feel about your mother right now, and that is angry. I'm really glad you told me this because this means we know all of our secrets and you trust in me to share this secret with." Barney, says as they stood up from the bed about to head downstairs for lunch with her mother.
He wanted to tell her that he's really glad that she can confine in him and trusts in him with her secret(s) and they can share anything no matter what it is with each other. Now, that they are married and committed to each other there isn't any secret that they need to hold back from each other and he's happy to have her in his life and loves her for who she is no matter what happened to her in her past.
"Barney, I trust you the most that's why I told you. I came back here to tell my mother that we're going to have a baby but I knew coming back here wasn't the best idea since it brought back horrible painful memories of my childhood. But, even if I was scared to admit coming here was, it has been better than I thought it would be. Despite, my past and how my parents treated me, if I didn't have the past I did I would have never met you." They, smile at each other for a moment and in that moment Robin realizes that if she didn't have that past life she wouldn't have moved to New York therefore she wouldn't have met Barney.
"Well, I'm kind of happy you had that kind of life even though it wasn't a healthy or happy life to live. I'm happy that you came into my life and we met and fell in love." They look at each other still smiling from the moment a minute ago then she pulls him in closer to her and gives him the biggest most passionate kiss of his life.
It wasn't until a few minutes later when her mother knocked on her door that stopped them from the kiss getting much more passionate in the Barney & Robin kind of passionate way.
"Sorry, Robin but lunch is ready." Her mother says knocking on the door.
"I know mom, I said we were coming." Robin says opening the door to her past after realizing all over again that this is her future. Her and Barney, and their family. Together. The past is in the past and the future is unknown.
They, all go downstairs for lunch and a long conversation that Robin wanted so badly to tell her mother in person even though she was scared of what her mother will say or do to her/their news.
"So, mom we came here to tell you something." Robin, announces as they sit in the dining area eating the lunch that her mother prepared for them.
"Yes, dear you said over the phone that you and Barney are married. If I haven't said it yet, I want to congratulate you both, and I welcome you Barney to the family." Genevieve, says eating some of her salad.
"Yes, you have but thank you Genie." Barney, accepts her welcome and smiles nicely at his new mother in law. Despite, everything he knows about Robin's family he still appreciates that her mother accepts him in the family.
"Anyway, mom we came here to tell you that Barney and I are expecting a baby." Her, mother starts screaming with smiles of joy on her face a moment later and Robin is relieved that her mother didn't freak out or say something bad about this news but surprisingly she took it well.
"Oh, wow Robin that's amazing. I'm going to be a grandma." Genevieve says after she comes down a bit over the excitement of this news.
"Yeah, we wanted to tell you in person that's why we came to see you." Robin's really glad her mom took this news better than she thought, it actually relaxed her for the first time since coming here, well even before coming here she's been nervous since they made the plans to go to Vancouver to announce this news.
"Well, I'm glad you came to tell me. I was a little shocked about you getting married and not telling me but I can see you are happy and I've never seen you as happy as you are now. I'm, happy to see you happy and having a better life than I did at your age." Robin smiles at her mother surprised that she's being this nice and friendly with her and Barney too, it makes being nervous before not important anymore.
"So, have you told your father yet?" Genevieve asks, breaking the nice happy atmosphere of the moment a couple of minutes ago.
"No, not yet you know how he is I wanted to tell you first because I knew you would take this news better than dad will. I will tell him soon, but please don't tell him let me tell him, okay." Robin, does want to tell her father but she's even more afraid of what he will say to this that the calmness she had been feeling a minute ago after telling her mother this news is kind of gone now.
"Alright, but you should tell him soon. I'm surprised you don't know, but he's been in New York for the last couple of months." And, that completely takes the nice, quiet, friendly, lighthearted conversation and turns Robin's mood after this.
"What?" She, says now confused and mad about this sudden news.
"Yeah, he's on business he's been there for a couple of months. I'm surprised you didn't know." Of, course she didn't know her father never talks to her and her mother never calls her to tell her such news.
"No, he never told me. Why, would he he's never been honest and doesn't talk to me." This was the last thing Robin says before pushing away from the table pissed off about this sudden news her mother shared with her.
The, quiet nice tone of lunch quickly turned into an angry outburst. Now, Barney sees why she never talks to her parents, her parents don't care enough about her to tell her these kinds of things.
After, this Barney goes after Robin to see how she's doing knowing already that she isn't doing good after finding out that her father has been in New York for the past two months.
"Hey, Robin you okay?" He, says knocking lightly on her bedroom door.
He, doesn't hear anything coming from the other side of the door so he goes in the room after a few minutes of seeing if she would open the door on her own instead of him going inside without her wanting him to.
"Hey." He sees her laying in her old bed lying on her stomach, which is still okay to do since she is still only in her third almost fourth month of pregnancy but it's still not quite healthy to do that even if she's only two months.
"You, know it isn't really good to lay like that." He, says and she instantly turns around to lie on her back then sitting up a little against the headboard.
"I know, I was just too angry to care." He, looks at her disappointingly but sits on the bed in front of her taking her feet off the bed and placing them on top of his legs.
"I'm, sorry about what your mother told you. I don't think she meant to say that the way she did but she really didn't know that you didn't know about your father being in New York." She, nods knowing that her outburst was a bit dramatic, her mother didn't know, she wouldn't know because she also doesn't talk to her dad either. She, was thinking before Barney came to the room that she needs to apologize to her mother for getting to upset at her about this.
"Yeah, I know I should apologize to her for the way I acted." She, says while Barney massages her feet in the way he always does that soothes her and relaxes her in a way that nothing else does especially now that she's pregnant and needs to take it easy and not get worked up over news like this even though she has a right to be upset with her parents about this.
"I told her that your pregnancy has been a bit difficult and that you need to take it easy. She, understands she really didn't know you didn't know about your father but she also apologizes for not telling you." He, tells her about the conversation, well brief conversation with her mother right after she stormed out of the lunch after she heard this sudden news.
"I'm not mad at her, I'm mad that my father doesn't ever seem to care about me. He, knows I'm living in New York I just don't get why he doesn't tell me these things himself. This, is why my life is so messed up but I come to realize that I don't need them. I have you and that's all that matters. I had been thinking for a bit, I'm not going to tell my father about us or the baby at all, he will find out when he finds out, whenever that is. My mother will probably tell him, even though they also barely talk to each other." She had been stressing out over coming here, maybe a part of her knew that coming here was a bad idea but she came anyway only to find out this news.
"I'm done. I want to leave tomorrow, and on a plane not a train. We need to go back home, we shouldn't have come here even though my mother took the news much better than I thought she would." He, nods and agrees to leave first thing the next morning.
For, another few hours, they just lay in her old bed, in her old bedroom holding each other and just sleeping. Until, there was a knock on the door.
"Robin, I just want to see if you're okay, I'm sorry about earlier I really didn't know you didn't know." As, Genevieve talked Robin got up slowly from the bed to open the door.
"I, know and I'm sorry for the way I acted over this. But, I decided that it's best not to tell dad at all. But, you can if you feel like you want to. I just can't face him now, I can't have the stress of that right now so I'm not going to tell him." Her, mother thinks she should tell her father about this but instead of disagree on this she nods and says.
"Alright, I guess I understand." Genie, says smiling lightly as the talk quietly outside her bedroom door as Barney slept on her childhood bed.
"I just wanted to tell you, we are going to be leaving tomorrow. I know we said we would stay another day but I really want to go back home. So, we'll leave tomorrow." Genevieve, understands she needs to let Robin do what she wants to do especially for her and the baby's health.
"Okay, well I'm going to go back downstairs and finish cleaning up." Genevieve, says after she and Robin hug.
Robin, gets the closure she needed her whole life. She, repairs her relationship with her mother and doesn't care about her father's approval anymore. She, is finally moving on with her life and away from her past, with Barney beside her and their new baby. Her, new life is so much better than her old life. After, all as Barney says 'new is always better' and now Robin can have a happy marriage and be a mom without things hovering over her anymore. She, realizes that she is so grateful that she moved to New York to get away from that life of the past because her future was waiting for her in New York and now she's happier than she's ever been.
The, next morning Barney and Robin get the second flight back to New York after packing the stuff they had unpacked the day before which was not many things since they didn't really unpack when they arrived at her mom's house. They, are quiet at first on the plane but soon they start a conversation after being silent since boarding the plane.
"So, you really are fine with not telling you dad?" He, asks wanting to know if she is absolutely okay with not telling her father about their news. He, wanted to be sure that she's okay with this because he knows what's it's like not to have a father in his life and even though Robin's father isn't quite in her life, he's still in her life rather she likes it or not.
"Yeah, I'm sure I'm okay with not telling my father. He's not going to really care anyway, he apparently cares enough about me to tell me that he's actually only a few minutes away from our apartment." She, says sarcastically rolling her eyes still not happy that her father doesn't care about her life or to tell her that he's in New York. So, she's 100% positive that she is not going to talk to her father, unless he talks to her first.
"Okay, then I'm with you 100% on this." He, says kissing her hand which he's been holding for a while now and then smiling at her in agreement.
They, sit quiet again for the rest of the flight back home. Both, now realizing that this is for the best, it's a new chapter in their lives together and they are both completely happy and ready to see what life brings them next because new is always better.