Context: 7x10
Prompt: #028 Emptiness
Word count: 100
Comment: I got a request in the reviews to do a Tick, Tick, Tick chapter, so here it goes! Angst ahead. Hope you guys enjoy. Thanks so much for reading! :)))
He doesn't feel a thing. When he picks up the rose petals from her bed, he doesn't feel anything. When he hails a cab home, he doesn't feel anything. When he pours himself a scotch and then decides to drink straight from the bottle instead, he doesn't feel anything.
He drinks himself into a stupor. There's a constant ring in his ears, and he tries to blend it out by drinking even more. It's as if the silence of his apartment screams at him.
This is it, he thinks. She broke him for good. He's never gonna get over this.
In my mind, chapter 3 of this fic takes place two or three nights after this, because Barney realises he can't handle the pain by himself. Poor baby :(