AN: My second chapter of this story! I know I suck at making up chat-names and I know I exaggerated with Ted´s behavior, but I hope you like it anyways. Please give it a try and leave many reviews! Thank you!

They exchange confused and kind of shocked looks which are recognized by the rest of the group. Lily, curious as always, gets the situation and asks,

„Oh no. You aren´t one of Barney´s bimbos, are you?"

„You slept with her?", Ted asks furious, already acting as if Robin is his already – though he doesn´t even know her name yet.

Robin gets the despicable tone in Lily´s and Ted´s voices and Marshall´s look speaks volumes, so she says,

„What are you talking about? I don´t know this guy and I´m not one of his bimbos. He just looked like someone else I know."

Ted, Lily and Marshall let out a sigh of relief and they let sit Robin down when Lily asks Barney, „What is your excuse, sir?"

Barney grunts, „She´s hot. Gosh, how long have you known me now, Lil. I always stare at hot chicks."

Robin grins, „Thank you. You are Barney, I guess? Or am I supposed to be a bimbo of one of you guys?", Robin asks and looks at Ted and Marshall questioningly. Though she is well aware of who´s Barney, even if Lily hadn´t say a word.

„Yes, he´s Barney. Sorry, we reacted so stupidly, but Barney is kind of a womanizer and you looked nice and... and I thought you would be a really nice...uh... friend?", Ted stutters.

Robin feels pretty uncomfortable. This Ted seems to be a little bit too clingy for her taste. To escape this embarassing conversation, she just says, „Yeah, I´m Robin."

„Ted", he answers and grins at her. Robin is kind of afraid that guy is falling to his knees and proposes before he even knows her family name.

„I´m Lily and this is Marshall, my boyfriend."

„Nice to meet you guys", Robin smiles. Lily seems like a very nice and funny girl, though a little bit too curious and excited, but Robin feels like she will get along with her very well.

„I´ll go get another round", Barney disappears to the counter and comes back again with 5 glasses of Scotch. They all thank him, when Ted starts to speak, „I have to apologize for Barney. He could have asked you what you want to drink. I´m sorry Robin. Shall I get you something else?"

„No, no, it´s fine. It´s great actually. I love Scotch."

„Yeah, as I had known her love of Scotch before", Barney scoffs and takes a sip.

A quick smile runs over Robin´s face, but not quick enough. Ted realized the flirty tension between the two and when Barney winks at Robin as a reaction to her smile, he bursts, „Oh yeah, Barney. You know all the woman so well. Don´t act as if that´s something special. Everybody I know loves Scotch. There was a chance of about 80% she´d love Scotch."

„No, there wasn´t", Barney simply answers.

„How can you say that? Did you do another bimbo research on how many girls like Scotch?"

„Gosh, chill bro, seriously. I got our usual drink and got one for her too. If you feel better, I´ll drink her Scotch too and you can get her another drink which she will like muuuuch better.", Barney rolls his eyes.

„So you guys are friends or what?", Robin interrupts their little fight, not quite sure what these guys have in common. Except for scotch, of course.

„Marshall and I´ve been best friends since college. Lily is his girlfriend, as she already said and we talked to Barney once and since then, we couldn´t get rid of him anymore," Ted sighs.

„Okay, you know what. As I´m such a burden to you, I will take home that blonde chick over there and you can continue flirting with that girl that is way out of your league. Bye." Barney gets up and walks over to the girl.

„Was that necessary?", Lily asks Ted.

„Oh come on. You do realize he was acting like an asshole, Lil. You know him. He wouldn´t have stopped."

„You know what? You said it: I know him. We all do, except for Robin. He just wanted to mock you a little bit."

„Uhhh, guys. Don´t get me wrong. You´re very nice and everything, but as it seems, I´m the reason for all of your fighting. I don´t want to get in between. There are some other tables where I can sit down. I just wanted to spend a nice evening.", Robin interrupts them, clearly feeling guilty. What they don´t know is, that she is also very concerned about Barney. He must have been as startled as herself when he saw her today, it must have been a big shock and she feels so bad about lying to him. She wants to go home now and forget this horrible day, but Ted and Lily won´t let her go.

„No, Robin, please stay. Seriously. You don´t know Barney. Tomorrow evening, he´ll sit here with us again and act as if nothing has happened. Just forget it, okay? Tell us something about you!", Lily encourages her.

„There´s not that much to tell. I recently moved to New York, I´m from Canada actually."

„Ohhh Canada, the white North.", Ted laughs.

„Yes, that´s Canada", Robin said.

„What do you do for a living?", Marshall asked.

„I´m a news anchor."

„Really? That´s so cool!", Lily cheered, „anything what we saw already?"

„I don´t know. I work for a small channel called Metro News 1."

„I will check it out as soon as I can. I´m sure you do an amazing job!", Ted winks at her.

„Thank you", Robin looks down to her hands with her glass of scotch in them. She takes a big sip. Robin likes those three, they are very nice to her and seem to be a lot of fun to hang out together, though she wishes, Barney would still be here.

They continued talking, every one of them telling Robin where they are working and what they like to do in their free-time. Especially Ted puts a lot of effort into impressing Robin. She thinks it´s sweet and everything, but Ted is not exactly her type. She prefers the bad guys, the adventurous guys with whom she can have a lot of fun and who challenge her – and Robin knew from the very first second that Ted was not that kind of guy. About 11pm Robin decides to head home.

„I can bring you home.", Ted offers eagerly.

„That´s sweet of you, but absolutely not necessary, Ted."

„Oh come on, it will be a lot of fun."

„It´s only going home, Ted. I don´t know what that means in your world, but in mine it´s not exciting at all.", she chuckles.

„We can talk"

„We talked all night long and I´m really tired, Ted."

„Yeah, but if you don´t intend to sleep on the streets you have to go home before sleeping and I can join you. You´re just moved here, I don´t think you know how dangerous New York is."

„I think I could defend myself. I´m a big girl.", Robin gets pretty pissed now, because Ted just won´t let it go.

„We´ll join you too!", Marshall finally savest he situation.

„Guys, there´s no need..."

„Stop it, we´re going with you.", Lily says and the girls lead the way.

When they´re finally at Robin´s place, she tells them goodbye and they are finally heading home – at least she thinks so. About two minutes later, someone is ringing her doorbell and Robin lets out a desperate sigh when she sees it´s Ted.

„Hey. What are you doing here? I thought you went home."

„We forgot to ask you about your phone-number and Lily and Marshall sent me to get it, so we can see each other again. We had a lot of fun hanging out together with you."

Now, Robin let´s out a sigh of relief- thank god, he is talking about the three of them and not only about himself.

„Yes, of course. Tell Lily and Marshall I had a lot of fun too."

She scribbles her number on a piece of paper.

„Here you go", Robin hands it over.

„Great, thank you."

Before he opens the door, he turns around again, „Robin, listen. As you just moved here... I could make a tour through New York with you and show you all the good places. Only if you want of course. But I know many awesome places, I´ve been living here for forever now."

„Uhhhhm, thank you, that´s nice, but..."

„But what? Do you have a boyfriend?"

„A boyfriend? Uhm, no, not really."

„So we´ll meet tomorrow?"

„Tomorrow is bad, to be honest. I still have to unpack a lot of things."

„What about the weekend?"

Robin realizes she has no chance, so she finally gives in, „Weekend sounds good."

Ted smiles sheepishly, „Awesome! So, Saturday it is?"

„Yes, fine."

As soon as Ted got his yes, he finally leaves.

Robin sighs and sinks onto her couch. She takes her laptop and logs into a website. This website is not any website though- it´s ALTL (Adult Laser Tag Lovers)- the website where she got to know Barney. With the urge to talk to him, she writes him a message:

Laser-waitforit-tag: Hey, Barney. How are you? Please write back. I have to talk to you. I´m so sorry what happened today!

Twelve minutes later, she finally gets an answer.

Guns&Scotch&Rock´n´Roll: Hey. I´m fine, just one question: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT TODAY?