Okay, this chapter took a different turn so this is part 1 of a 2 part chapter.

In This chapter Barney and Robin flashback to the time they decided to get married and save their rocky relationship it also includes a meaningful conversation about their relationship and their plan to get revenge on their friends for trying to break them up.


Truth or Dare

Part 1 of 2


Marshall always loved making up games, playing games and winning games but when Barney invited him and Lily to an annual game night he literally jumped and screamed saying he'll be there. The gang had decided recently to make an annual get-to-ether-game-night and since it's Barney's turn to host the game night this month is at his place. Robin was worried about Barney throwing the game night party but they discussed it and by the end of their conversation they were smiling and kissing before the doorbell rang.

"Hey, guys welcome to the fortress." Barney answered the door 2 minutes later with a smile and then let his friends into his apartment closing the door behind them.

"So, who else is coming tonight?" Lily asked wondering who else Barney invited to their game night.

"Oh, Ted can't make it he's working late but I invited some guys from work and well you know... Robin right?" Robin was hiding in the bathroom when Marshall and Lily arrived cause she didn't want to get any questions on why she's here early or why she didn't tell them that she'll be at the game night too.

"Hey, guys nice to see you." Robin comes out of the darkened back area of the apartment with a smile trying no not give herself away too much so she acted as she just arrived too.

"Robin, I didn't know you were going to be here I thought you were working?" Lily says after giving her friend a hug.

"Turns out I don't have to work tonight." Robin gives Barney an unexpected glance and he nods back.

Earlier that night!

"Are you sure this will work?" Robin is a little nervous about what will happen tonight, she's been walking around in a daze with worry that this plan won't work well and her and Barney will be made. She's not ready yet to expose their relationship, she loves Barney but now isn't the right time to tell their friends that they are engaged.

"Positive. It has to work because they think we are broken up and we are both not ready to tell them that we aren't broken up but engaged instead and we know that you tried to break us up during out rough patch. We will keep it together and just ask the questions we chose to ask them. They won't suspect a thing because we will not tell them anything and keep playing the games until it's time for game night to end.

"I know you're worried but everything will work. When we're ready we'll tell them but this is just revenge for trying to break us up. I am not worried about them I worry about you and our relationship, the rough patch we went through was the wost point of my life Robin. Losing you." He pauses looking down at his hands which were entangled with Robin's and then looked up. "That was the worst time in my life, I thought that I didn't want to be in a committed relationship let alone get married but when I fell in love with you I knew that it was right. That you are right for me. You make me happy, happier than anyone or anything has ever made me and even though what our friends did pissed me off that doesn't take away from how I feel about you. So, yes this will work it has to work because we have to at some point tell our friends that we're getting married and not parting ways." She looks at him in awe of this man, it's incredibly sweet that he told her these things she's never heard anything so sweet in her life and this is Barney Stinson someone who would never be caught dead saying sweet things to a girl. She smiles and then kisses him really passionately on the lips.

"I hope you're right Barney, I'm more worried about their reaction than anything else. The fact that we're engaged will shock them and I know what their reactions will be. I just don't want them to judge us or look at us with some disgust, I know them they won't take it well. They probably won't believe we're engaged, Marshall will stare at us with the are you seriously look, Lily will be happy but will ask too many questions I don't want to answer and Ted won't take that I'm committed to someone that isn't him." Barney rolls his eyes at the last part. She's right, Ted will start to act weird around them after they tell him that they are engaged this angers Barney more than he wants to admit. Ted's a question, an unanswered but predictable question he already knows what Ted will say to him and it makes his face turn red at the thought of facing him with this.

"Ted worries me too, but I will deal with him later for now we have to concentrate of Marshall and Lily. We will, by the end of the night will tell them about us I just don't want this to come out just yet. The revenge is first and then we'll tell them what's really going on cause then they will get suspicious and probably won't take this news well." Barney knows his friends better than they think they do.

When Barney Stinson asks a question he always gets a yes even if it's a slight hesitation so the moment he asked Robin to marry him he wasn't expecting her to give him an answer so fast. By the end of their conversation that day in their diner, the diner they had been going to for weeks not knowing what to do next about their day. But in that one moment when they thought they would breakup Barney was terrified of what will happen next. After a breakup of a serious relationship, the only seriously relationship Barney has ever been in and he put everything he had into making something work with Robin. The question only came to him out of the spur of the moment but it was one question he wasn't sure of getting the yes to.

They were in a complete silence for along time before Barney looked up at Robin who had tears streaming quickly down her face and all he could think of is trying to save their relationship from diving into the Hudson river.

"What if we get married?" This was more of a question for a couple who weren't about to breakup but the way Robin looked right now with the tear stained red face breaks his heart so in that moment he realized that he can't lose this woman. That he loves her and wants to still be with her, he would do anything to make her smile in this moment and when she looks up at him she starts to wipe the tears away from her eyes to see Barney more clearer and then she said "huh?" "Are you serious?" Barney stood up from his side of the table and came to her side of the booth then knelled down beside her and took her hand in his.

"Yes, Robin I'm serious. I know this doesn't sound like me or seem like something I would do when I try to get out of a relationship or a one-night stand but I am serious. I love you, I know these last weeks have been stressful on our relationship and we've been drifting apart but I don't want to breakup. I thought the only way to make you happy would to breakup because I know you haven't been happy and I'm mainly the cause of that... But, I want to be with you and I never felt this way before. Until I met you I didn't want a serious relationship because I just never felt like it was right for who I am but with you." He pauses wiping away a tear in his own eyes and then continued. "You make me want to be a better person, you make me want to try in a relationship, you make me happy. Happier than I ever been being single, I never thought I wanted to be in a relationship but these last 6 months was the best months of my life. Being with you is the only thing that makes my days not suck... So, Robin Scherbatsky will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?"

This made Robin's head spin but not in the dizzy sense just everything that just happened seemed so fast and out of the blue when only a few seconds ago they were about to end their relationship because both weren't happy. Now, he's here in front of her asking her to marry him it's so crazy.

She didn't know what was going on but the next thing she knew was that he was kissing her and slipping a ring that appeared out of no where on her finger. It was all such a blur. That's how they ended up engaged and committing to this relationship.