Context: season 1
Prompt: #054 Truth
Word count: 200
Comment: Thanks for reviewing, dears! :) The question that really bothers me is... are olives really fruits?! :'D Hope you enjoy. Happy Thursday!
Robin quickly becomes a regular at their booth at MacLaren's, joining them at around ten or eleven for an after hours beer. She's… interesting. Hot, obviously, but also quick and sharp. Someone who might actually be able to keep up.
Barney's definitely intrigued.
Occasionally, she'd order a martini, looking all elegant and sophisticated sipping at it. One night in early October, Barney casually reaches for her empty glass, pulling the toothpick from it to eat the left-over olive.
"Ted shares a lot of details about his dates, huh?" she mocks the dark-haired man, referring to their first date when she offered him her olives, assuming that's the reason Barney knows she doesn't like the fruit (he notices how she doesn't call him out on helping himself).
The truth is (and he'll deny it until the day he dies), Barney knew before Ted ever told him anything about their first date. The reason he's aware of the fact that Robin dislikes olives is because, the first time she sat with the gang and ordered a martini, she pulled a face at the obligatory addition to gin and vermouth, sipping around it and leaving it untouched.
No one but Barney registered it.
