Map Across Your Heart

by moonlight-shimmer

"You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart." - Sharon Shinn. Life is not about reaching a destination; it's about getting there. This is a collection of missing moments illustrating Barney and Robin's journey, laughter, tears, heartbreak, happiness, friendship and lots of fluffiness included! :)

73. I like it in the city

Context: future-set :)
Prompt: #098 London
Word count: 200
Comment: Awww, guys! So glad you liked the previous one! Since I'm in England and I'm a little (read: a lot) in love with London, this piece is a it of a tribute to it. Hope you enjoy :o) xx

I like it in the city when two worlds collide

Robin loves South Bank.

Yes, it's the epitome of a beaten tourist track, but she's fascinated by the Parliament and Big Ben's chime ringing through the air.

In 2015 when she's in London for three months (she's doing quiet well as a foreign correspondent), Barney visits her halfway through. But he knows Central, so he says, "Show me yourLondon."

So she takes him to the BBC building (he chuckles at the fact that all her colleagues call her 'mate'), to her favourite Italian restaurant and to a little music shop she discovered one afternoon as she ran for shelter when it started pouring.

At sunset, however, she drags him to WestminsterCity, where the London Eye and Big Ben are illuminated in a timeless elegancy.

He pulls her closer. "This is postcard-London, Scherbatsky. We're being mainstream."

She shrugs carelessly. "Yeah, but look. Isn't it stunning?"

He looks, thinking that New York totally kicks the ass of this place, but then Robin takes a deep breath that he can feel against his side, and a peaceful smile stretches across her lips, and when he takes his eyes off her and looks around again... he sees.

"Yeah," he whispers, "it is."