Context: post 9x08
Prompt: #025 Commitment
Word count: 200
Comment: Thank you all so much for reading this story! :) All the response to the last chapter made me smile so much. Here's something for this week's episode! Hope you like it. x
He finds her in their suite, his mum's blouse slung loosely over a chair. Taking off his jacket and shoes, he slides onto the bed behind her, gently pulling her against him. She feels so small and he immediately senses that she's been crying.
"I'm sorry I can't make scrambled eggs," Robin breathes shakily.
His hand closes over hers, his thumb touching her ring. "I asked you to be my wife being fully aware of the fact that you're an awful cook."
Barney smiles as she chuckles through her tears, touching his lips to her shoulder.
"Do you want me to... to learn... how to make them?"
He squeezes her hand lovingly against her stomach.
"No," he whispers. "We don't need scrambled eggs. I'd rather have pancakes for breakfast."
Another chuckle.
"In fact," he says in a deep voice and with his eyes closed as the emotions overwhelm him for a second, "I don't care about breakfast. I only want you. That's all that matters to me."
She turns around now, burying her face in his dress shirt and hugging him to her as tightly as she can.
"Okay," he hears her whisper.
"Okay," he agrees.
And it would be.