p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"strongspan lang="EN-US"AN: New chapter! I hope it´s not too light for the situation Barney is in, but personally, I know how important it is to laugh sometimes, even though times are hard and depressing sometimes. There are some references to the show and I loved the small scene about Barney´s tie Cornelius in the series, so I thought, I´ll put it in my story - under different circumstances though. The thing about their previous meeting and that Robin is embarassed will be adressed in future story updates. Hope you like it! RR please/span/strong/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"After a few minutes, Barney whispers, "Isn´t it weird that we´re hugging like this without talking?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Oh my god, it speaks!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Haha, very funny", Barney breaks the hug and the left corner of his mouth twitches a little./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sorry. I´m so bad at the emotional stuff. I´m good as long as I don´t have to speak, but as soon as I open my mouth in emotional situations, I act weird."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Yeah, you suck at that", he scoffs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sorry", she smiles at him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You totally should be sorry. I mean you come all the way to my mother´s place to visit your laser-tag-player-friend. How rude is that? You should apologize some more.", he says in a sarcastic tone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin smiles lightly and looks down, afraid to meet his eyes and initiate a talk about his mom and his brother. Obviously, Barney isn´t ready to talk about it either, so he suggests to go inside. They silently open the door, head to the kitchen for some water and sit down on the couch in the living room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin finally breaks the silence, "So, how are you?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Fine. I´m fine.", his voice cracks a bit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Are you sure? It´s totally okay, you can talk to me, Barney!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I was sad. Really sad. But then I stopped being sad and now I´m awesome instead."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You don't stop being awesome, just because you´re sad, Barney. Especially in a situation like that", she watches him intensely. When he doesn´t answer, she adds, "Hey. Look at me. It´s me. Robin. You can tell me how you feel."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When she sees a tear in his eyes, she tries to comfort him and gets closer, but suddenly he jumps up, "You really want to know how I feel? I feel awful. There. I said it. Some stupid possum screwed up my life. It ran across the street in the middle of the night, James saw it, wanted to stop the car and hit the brakes. He slowed down, but the street was so slippery and he lost control of the car. The car hit a stupid tree. They had to cut James and my mom out of the car and rushed them into the hospital", Barney takes a deep breath now and sits down again. A little bit calmer, he explains, "My mom broke her legs and has a massive wound on the head because she bumped it against the door, but James…" Barney lowers his head, "He´s in a pretty bad condition. My mom said he passed out immediately and in the hospital they put him into a induced coma because he has severe wounds and had an internal bleeding near his lungs. They could stop it, but he´s too weak now, so we can´t wake him up. We have to wait, god knows for how long. The doctors can´t tell, if he will wake up again and if he does, there´s always the possibility he won´t fully recover."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When Barney stops talking, Robin whispers, "I´m so sorry, Barney" and takes his hand into hers. He squeezed her hand lightly and started talking again, "On top of all that, I haven´t slept properly in days, I have barely eaten anything and when I ate some fries with ketchup I lost Cornelius!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin looks startled, "Who is Cornelius?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Barney looks at her in shock, lets go of her hand, takes his red tie and whispers, "He can hear you!" His mood suddenly shifts from a depressed and exhausted Barney into the lighter and more playful version of him which Robin is used to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What are you talking about?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Really? You can´t remember Cornelius? I´m so disappointed in you, Robin. He was there when we first met and won the competition with us and then we did that thing with him…you know."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re not seriously talking about your tie right now, do you?", Robin gives him a baffled look./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Who else would I talk about, Robin?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin shakes her head, "Okay… weirdo. But, umm…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""But what?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You just said you lost it-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Him", Barney corrected her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""- lost him. But you didn´t. You are wearing it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Him"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Fine. Him. You are wearing him."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Robin, Robin, my dear, clueless friend. I´m not wearing him. I´m wearing his corpse."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin blurted out a laugh, "What? Are you going crazy now?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No, I don´t! I ate fries and some of the ketchup…", Barney stops, puts a fist in his mouth and lets out some crying. Robin knows, it´s not an emotional crying though and asks him amused, "What happened with the ketchup?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Some ketchup fell on Cornelius!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""So? IT IS RED. You know that, right? I can´t see a stain."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""HE WAS red, Robin! I couldn´t save him."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""But you literally can´t see anyth.."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I lost him!", he interrupted her again, "I tried to save him from the ketchup! And he was so close to retirement! Just this morning he told me he was too old for this sh…shirt."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin smiles, "You´re an idiot, you know?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""And you… you are CANADIAN!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin chuckled, "I´m glad, the old Barney is still in there"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"In a much more serious tone Barney thanks her, "Thank you so much for coming. It feels good to laugh a little bit. And to see a friendly face."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re welcome, Barney", Robin answers softly. "Do you need anything? Do you want something to eat or should we get this book and bring it to your mom? Or do you want to sleep? I could clean up a bit while you´re sleeping."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Nah, it´s okay. I´m not going to sleep when you drive all the way here to see me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""So you are not sleeping for quite a while, I guess. I´m staying."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re staying? Overnight?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m not driving back all the way to the city and then back again. Haven´t you seen my big bag? Why would I need it for just one quick visit?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""That´s very nice of you, but you don´t have to."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I can look for a hotel or an inn or something, if that´s the problem."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No, no, absolutely not. That´s not the problem. There´s no problem at all. I just don´t want you to sit around all day and get bored because I´m at the hospital all the time."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´ll go with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Really? Despite last time?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I don´t think your mom cares about our last meeting at the moment. Sure, I was embarrassed, but I hope she won´t mention it any more."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sure she doesn´t. She likes you, I think. She always asks about you when I visit her."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Wow. She must ask about me a lot then, little mama´s boy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What about work?", Barney changes the topic./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Don´t worry about it. I´ve got it covered."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Thank you again!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No problem. Can you show me my room now?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Barney chuckles, "You can choose between a nice couch or an even nicer bed."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What´s the catch?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""There is this handsome, awesome, irresistible, blonde guy whose childhood bed is not that big and you would have to share it with said amazing guy", Barney says flirtatiously and raises a brow./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I think I´ll have a look at the bed", Robin smiles and gets closer to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Before she even touches him, Barney´s phone rings. His face gets a worried expression as he sees the phone number. He takes the call, listens to the caller and ends the conversation with, "Okay. Thank you, I´ll be there as fast as I can!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When Robin looks at him questioningly, he explains, "It was the hospital! James woke up from his coma."/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"After a few minutes, Barney whispers, "Isn´t it weird that we´re hugging like this without talking?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Oh my god, it speaks!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Haha, very funny", Barney breaks the hug and the left corner of his mouth twitches a little./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sorry. I´m so bad at the emotional stuff. I´m good as long as I don´t have to speak, but as soon as I open my mouth in emotional situations, I act weird."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Yeah, you suck at that", he scoffs./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sorry", she smiles at him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You totally should be sorry. I mean you come all the way to my mother´s place to visit your laser-tag-player-friend. How rude is that? You should apologize some more.", he says in a sarcastic tone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin smiles lightly and looks down, afraid to meet his eyes and initiate a talk about his mom and his brother. Obviously, Barney isn´t ready to talk about it either, so he suggests to go inside. They silently open the door, head to the kitchen for some water and sit down on the couch in the living room./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin finally breaks the silence, "So, how are you?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Fine. I´m fine.", his voice cracks a bit./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Are you sure? It´s totally okay, you can talk to me, Barney!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I was sad. Really sad. But then I stopped being sad and now I´m awesome instead."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You don't stop being awesome, just because you´re sad, Barney. Especially in a situation like that", she watches him intensely. When he doesn´t answer, she adds, "Hey. Look at me. It´s me. Robin. You can tell me how you feel."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When she sees a tear in his eyes, she tries to comfort him and gets closer, but suddenly he jumps up, "You really want to know how I feel? I feel awful. There. I said it. Some stupid possum screwed up my life. It ran across the street in the middle of the night, James saw it, wanted to stop the car and hit the brakes. He slowed down, but the street was so slippery and he lost control of the car. The car hit a stupid tree. They had to cut James and my mom out of the car and rushed them into the hospital", Barney takes a deep breath now and sits down again. A little bit calmer, he explains, "My mom broke her legs and has a massive wound on the head because she bumped it against the door, but James…" Barney lowers his head, "He´s in a pretty bad condition. My mom said he passed out immediately and in the hospital they put him into a induced coma because he has severe wounds and had an internal bleeding near his lungs. They could stop it, but he´s too weak now, so we can´t wake him up. We have to wait, god knows for how long. The doctors can´t tell, if he will wake up again and if he does, there´s always the possibility he won´t fully recover."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When Barney stops talking, Robin whispers, "I´m so sorry, Barney" and takes his hand into hers. He squeezed her hand lightly and started talking again, "On top of all that, I haven´t slept properly in days, I have barely eaten anything and when I ate some fries with ketchup I lost Cornelius!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin looks startled, "Who is Cornelius?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Barney looks at her in shock, lets go of her hand, takes his red tie and whispers, "He can hear you!" His mood suddenly shifts from a depressed and exhausted Barney into the lighter and more playful version of him which Robin is used to./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What are you talking about?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Really? You can´t remember Cornelius? I´m so disappointed in you, Robin. He was there when we first met and won the competition with us and then we did that thing with him…you know."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re not seriously talking about your tie right now, do you?", Robin gives him a baffled look./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Who else would I talk about, Robin?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin shakes her head, "Okay… weirdo. But, umm…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""But what?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You just said you lost it-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Him", Barney corrected her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""- lost him. But you didn´t. You are wearing it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Him"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Fine. Him. You are wearing him."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Robin, Robin, my dear, clueless friend. I´m not wearing him. I´m wearing his corpse."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin blurted out a laugh, "What? Are you going crazy now?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No, I don´t! I ate fries and some of the ketchup…", Barney stops, puts a fist in his mouth and lets out some crying. Robin knows, it´s not an emotional crying though and asks him amused, "What happened with the ketchup?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Some ketchup fell on Cornelius!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""So? IT IS RED. You know that, right? I can´t see a stain."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""HE WAS red, Robin! I couldn´t save him."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""But you literally can´t see anyth.."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I lost him!", he interrupted her again, "I tried to save him from the ketchup! And he was so close to retirement! Just this morning he told me he was too old for this sh…shirt."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin smiles, "You´re an idiot, you know?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""And you… you are CANADIAN!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Robin chuckled, "I´m glad, the old Barney is still in there"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"In a much more serious tone Barney thanks her, "Thank you so much for coming. It feels good to laugh a little bit. And to see a friendly face."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re welcome, Barney", Robin answers softly. "Do you need anything? Do you want something to eat or should we get this book and bring it to your mom? Or do you want to sleep? I could clean up a bit while you´re sleeping."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Nah, it´s okay. I´m not going to sleep when you drive all the way here to see me."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""So you are not sleeping for quite a while, I guess. I´m staying."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""You´re staying? Overnight?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m not driving back all the way to the city and then back again. Haven´t you seen my big bag? Why would I need it for just one quick visit?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""That´s very nice of you, but you don´t have to."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I can look for a hotel or an inn or something, if that´s the problem."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No, no, absolutely not. That´s not the problem. There´s no problem at all. I just don´t want you to sit around all day and get bored because I´m at the hospital all the time."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´ll go with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Really? Despite last time?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I don´t think your mom cares about our last meeting at the moment. Sure, I was embarrassed, but I hope she won´t mention it any more."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I´m sure she doesn´t. She likes you, I think. She always asks about you when I visit her."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Wow. She must ask about me a lot then, little mama´s boy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What about work?", Barney changes the topic./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Don´t worry about it. I´ve got it covered."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""Thank you again!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""No problem. Can you show me my room now?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Barney chuckles, "You can choose between a nice couch or an even nicer bed."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""What´s the catch?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""There is this handsome, awesome, irresistible, blonde guy whose childhood bed is not that big and you would have to share it with said amazing guy", Barney says flirtatiously and raises a brow./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US""I think I´ll have a look at the bed", Robin smiles and gets closer to him./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"Before she even touches him, Barney´s phone rings. His face gets a worried expression as he sees the phone number. He takes the call, listens to the caller and ends the conversation with, "Okay. Thank you, I´ll be there as fast as I can!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"span lang="EN-US"When Robin looks at him questioningly, he explains, "It was the hospital! James woke up from his coma."/span/p
