I have changed my original idea for this into a game for the gang. It isn't a happy/kind game but it works with the way this story is going.

Hope you like it!


Chapter 2

Catching Up On Current Events/Game Night

It's a typical slow afternoon at Maclaren's the gang is sitting around their booth catching up on current events. Not only news events but the events that are going on right now with the group of friends. Just the other day Barney and Robin had decided to start the process of moving in together but before they do they have to start their revenge plot against their friends who said at one time that they supported their relationship. Lily had once called them the couple that she likes to think of as a process made in the making. Like a diamond in the rough, a baby taking it's first steps, a very slow but getting fast turtle but out of everyone in the gang she was the one who planned to break the happy couple up. Barney and Robin might not be all open and honest about what they feel with their feelings for once another but they know where they stand, they love with their heart without putting on a show of displays of affection... That is for the bedroom only. Okay, not only they had sex everywhere possible that you can think of but still Lily breaking them up when she was the one who wanted to see them together.

"So what's going on with the move?" Marshall and Lily was almost fully moved into their new place. They didn't get to bring everything they owned into their new apartment right when they moved out of Ted's apartment into their new one. It took them months after the official move to bring everything they owned into the new apartment from storage. They of course left somethings in storage but the most important things had to be in the new apartment like they were in the old apartment.

"It's been going good. We are down to one box and a chair that I don't like but Marshall loves so we debated on that and he won." Lily loves Marshall but losing that bet they made over the chair was not a happy loss. They had argued over other things in the past but this chair is so old that it needed it's on dumpster just to clear out the bugs that were invading it. Frustrated, Lily gave in after losing the bet and let Marshall bring the chair to the new apartment.

"I know the chair you''re talking about and I agree with you that thing is older than dirt." Robin gives a disgusted look and continued with what she came here to tell Lily.

"Um, I wanted to ask you what are you and Marshall doing tomorrow night. I want to invite you over to the apartment for a game night." This wasn't something Robin would normally do, playing and inventing games was Marshall's thing but she and Barney need to get both Marshall and Lily in one place to get them to fight which will lead to them questioning their marriage. Lily's credit debt has been getting more out of hand, this will cause them to fight like they did a year ago after buying the new apartment downtown.

The plan was to get them to the point of no return. On the edge of ending their marriage which will later give Barney a reason to sign the divorce papers he printed up yesterday. They have it all planned out, the divorce papers are signed by Barney and Robin but they made sure to copy the way Lily and Marshall sign things. They didn't get it down correctly at first but with practice they got it after an hour. Now that the play is in action, they only needed Marshall and Lily to fight with Ted as an eye witness.

"Marshall's working till 6 but we're free around 7." Lily responded happily, almost shouting "I would love to" at the top of her lungs. She hasn't had time to have a little fun so this invitation was good timing for her and Marshall would love it too because he's the master of game nights with the gang.

"Great, 7pm it is." After their conversation they left to go home but first Robin texted Barney telling him that the game night is a go and the details of the time of the game night.

"I hope this works." Robin and Barney are on the phone, she's at her apartment and he's at his talking about what's going to happen at this time tomorrow. She had some doubts about if this, using some lame excuse as a game night to cause a fight between their friends might not be the best thing to do when they find out what they're up to it's not going to be a happy, friendly time for them or for their close friendship with them.

"Trust me, Marshall will want to create a game or two and Lily will start to crumble under the pressure of the questions we'll ask her. It will work, just don't act or seem suspicious about the questions or do anything that will get them to realize what we're actually doing to them." Barney felt confident about this plan but Robin seems like it's a bit mean, however they will go through with this game night as planned and hopefully everything will go smoothly without their plan getting ruined. Ruining their friends relationship wasn't for a mean reason it was to show those bastards not to mess with Barnman and Robin. They still love them as friends but knowing what they did to break them up two weeks ago really angered both of them.

"I will try, I do trust you Barney. You are smart when it comes to secret keeping and getting revenge." She only said this in a teasing voice but Barney countered with a serious tone.

"I am, by tomorrow night our friends will be on the edge of getting divorced and Ted... Well, he's going to freak out about their pending divorce then we'll move on to Ted. I will hang out with him the next day cause that guy needs to get laid. And fast, he's still desperate enough to start pursuining you again." Barney hated the thought of Ted coming onto Robin again and not giving up until she took him back. Robin promised him that she's his, he's hers forever and nothing or nobody will change her mind.

"Don't worry about Ted, I don't even think of him in that way and when we broke up it was for the best. I moved on and eventually founds someone I can put before my career. Plus, you're the only one for me. My soulmate. My forever so don't ever think I will want Ted again because I don't. I love you and only you, don't ever doubt that I don't love you because it's simply not true." They had fought over Ted before, before they found out about the other guys trying to break them up it became a bigger issue than it should have. They argued over what to do about Ted for hours, not knowing how to end that argument they decided on trying to get him laid to get him off Robin's radar. So, after they deal with Marshall and Lily. Barney will deal with the Ted of the matter which is a bigger problem than Marshall and Lily or their petty little fights over the stormstrooper. Ted is much more of a problem for them, he is going to sulk and give up on every woman and then start thinking about Robin again so dealing with Ted is much more bigger than just getting him laid. He's like a kids with a toy, doesn't want to give up when the woman tells him no.

"I don't doubt that you don't love me I know you do. I'm just worried that it can be a possibility again. You know how Ted is when he's in that depressed, my career sucks, I need a woman phase he always gets in when he isn't happy with his life. So, it isn't you I don't trust it's him." Barney hated feeling this way about his best friend but when it comes to Robin he doesn't want to end his friendship with Ted over his commitment to Robin. Not only a commitment but a marriage which both DO want.

"If anything happens with Ted after we tell him about our engagement I will deal with it. I'm hoping nothing does but if so I will talk to him if it comes to that." Robin feels a little angry at the thought of Ted not understanding why she made the decisions she made and got engaged to a commitment phobe who might cheat or do something wrong but she knows Barney won't do that especially after the talk they had just before they decided to get married.

Two weeks ago!

"Well, it comes to this. The end. I never thought that it would come to this. Breaking up, I just can't believe after everything we tried doing, after our summer, after realizing we love each other it has to end this way." Robin had tears in her eyes as she starts to pack up some of her belongings she kept at Barney's apartment. This is killing her, more than she thought. Breaking up with someone was never a big thing for her, she usually is the one to end a relationship but this breakup was mutual. At least that's what they're telling themselves, they tried to make this whole relationship thing work but they are just too alike. Too awesome, to try being something they aren't.

"I know, when we decided to stop pretending and try a relationship that involved the words Boyfriend and Girlfriend I thought we could make it work. But, it seems like we can't. I never thought I would find myself sitting here waiting for you to finish packing you suitcase." Robin comes over and sits beside Barney on the bed, his bed. Wiping her eyes to look at the man beside her more clearly.

"For the record, I do love you Barney. I wasn't with you or trying in this relationship because I wanted to. It was because I fell in love with you over our summer together. Even before that summer, I did want more but was afraid to take that leap but I won't ever change that summer for anything and don't ever think that it didn't mean anything or that I don't mean anything to you or took this relationship seriously. Because I do, I do/did mean it when I told you I loved you so unexpectedly out-of-the-blue in June. I meant it then I mean it now." Robin couldn't bring herself to stop crying it caused Barney to immediately comfort her.

"I know, I love you too but I guess this is for the best." Not soon after this conversation they found out about Marshall, Lily and Ted's plan to break them up which caused them to realize that they were both idiots. Idiots who gave up too soon and who were still in love with each other.

"Alright, I will see you tomorrow for breakfast?" Barney didn't know if they were still going to have breakfast in the morning so he asked just to see if she still wants to meet for breakfast.

"Of course, I'll meet you at 8. I have to be at the office at 9:30. I told my boss that I will be a little late." Robin smiles thinking about tomorrow's breakfast meeting and the thought of the game night they planned.

"Okay, see you then. Love you Robin." Barney smiles to himself, he's never been this happy before it's a weirdly good feeling to have.

"I love you too." She throws him kisses through the phone and he responds kissing her back.

"Goodnight."
"Goodnight"

They end the call and go to bed thinking about each other, their plan of revenge and early morning breakfast. They aren't the biggest prayer people in the world but this night they both prayed hoping that tomorrow's events will go smoothly.