This is a shorter chapter, just Barney planning his proposal with the help of Patrice. Like I said, there isn't going to be a play, there is no Robin play in this proposal it's just simple and sweet and very B/R. Simple, sweet and I'm not changing anything about the proposal from the show just not using the play even though I love it and will always defend it.

The proposal will be in the next chapter because I want to make that a really long chapter. Enjoy!

The perfect plan!

Some plans are planned out for years, other plans are planned in months spans, and others like Barney's proposal was planned in only two days with nobody but his father and himself knowing about it. She had no idea, she knew she wanted to be with him for the rest of her life but when she saw the rose petals and the lights on top of her favorite spot in the city she was speechless. Robin Scherbatsky, for once in her life was speechless to the moment her answer came out of her lips.

"This has to go smoothly, I can't have the biggest moment of my life get ruined so nobody can find out that I will propose to Robin. Especially my friends... As much as I love them all I just don't trust them to keep this a secret. So, that's where you come in." Barney has the perfect plan to propose but he can't do it alone, the only person he knows that can help him even if Robin hates her is Patrice. Patrice, who works with Robin and knows somethings that Barney doesn't and can keep a secret long enough to help him get Robin up to that roof.

"I know the perfect spot for your engagement but I feel like if I told you Robin would be mad at me." Patrice is really excited to help Barney with his proposal to Robin. She also knows that even if she doesn't want to admit it, Robin isn't her best fan so chances are it will be difficult to get Robin up to that roof without giving away Barney's proposal plans.

"Don't worry about it, she does like you it's just your clingy-ness that annoys her." Barney really likes Patrice, she isn't the most subtle person he knows but she isn't a bad person who loves to see people she likes happy.

"Anyway, tonight's the night this has to go smoothly." The rooftop is the best spot to have this romantic proposal and he has high hopes that by midnight they will be engaged. A place where Robin goes to clear her head or just get away from life, it's an escape from the world around her.

It's been a while since she was up there, the last time was around New Years which was one of the most tough and frustrating and also a little confusing times of her life. But, she went there to reflect on her life and the stuff that's been going on with Barney and Kevin recently. This was the time Patrice found out that Robin has secretly been coming up to the roof of WWN since the summer time and this is when Patrice found out about this very spot is Robin's sacred place to reflect on things and it has become her favorite place in the city to go.

"Hi Robin, what are you doing up here?" Patrice had just came to the roof on her lunch break and saw Robin on the roof looking out over the city with a slight breeze in the air which makes her hair wrap around the front of her face as she looked to see Patrice standing next to her.

"Just thinking, I like to come here once in a while it's a really intimate nice place to be. I like looking out at the city, especially at night." Robin tells Patrice taking her hair out of her face.

"Oh, yeah it is a nice place to be that's why I like it." Patrice excitedly says smiling.

The two women glance out at the New York City skyline quietly just standing there. They stood there for another five minutes before both ladies left to go back to work together. This was the first time Patrice found out about Robin's relationship problems. She didn't go into exact detail but with Robin's solemn attitude and quietness during their time on the roof. Robin told Patrice that very time that she was thinking a lot about Barney, in the last five month even though she was in a relationship. She said in a quiet tone of voice!

"I messed everything good in my life up. I just don't know how to get back the last five month, it's more like the last two months of my life and I don't know how or if I will ever be able to take it all back. I can't take what I did back but I wish I could go back and just tell him what I've been wanting to tell him since the summer." Robin started crying as Patrice looked at her sadly before hugging her, pulling her in to a hug that Robin really did need in that specific moment.

"She really said that?" Barney asked smiling, he knew Robin was feeling something during the summer but he didn't realize that she was in love with him. Now, it all makes sense why she was almost going to to tell him something then but didn't after they had that dance.

"Yeah, it wasn't in so many words but she just said that she messed something up and reflected on telling me that and then cried over my shoulder about it. She really opened up to me, I wasn't expecting her to confess anything to me when I saw her on the roof but that's why she said. I'm sorry if I'm overstepping or if I am supposed to say anything now that you're together but I could have sworn that she was talking about you." Barney's shocked, maybe not too much but it's still shocking considering she chose to stay with Kevin even with the feelings she was fighting for him.

"She wanted to tell me something in August. I didn't know what it was but now I do. She was in love with me then and wanted to tell me. I think that's also why she slept with me while dating Kevin. I can't believe it but also can believe it." Barney now understands why Robin seemed so closed off and not talking to him for a while when he was dating Nora and it's also the reason why she stayed with Kevin even though she wanted to be with him. "She was scared." The big smile on his face says everything he needed to know back then and everything he already knows. With his head down he smiles at the ground thinking that they wasted all these months being apart when they could have been together.

"She's been thinking of me this entire time and finally when she was in that helicopter incident she finally didn't want to waste anymore time apart. She was running from what she wanted it only took that life altering experience to step up and confess her feelings for me. Wow!" Barney's almost shedding a tear at the thought that Robin has loved him this whole time and never told him.

Later that day as Robin was at work Patrice finally got a chance to talk to Robin about tonight. It wasn't hard to get her up to the roof for a late lunch and conversation. It didn't take much pushing to get Robin to agree to meeting Patrice at midnight on this very spot in order for Barney to propose. Patrice texts Barney to say that the plan worked he responded with a emoji smile and a thank you.

The plan is set, everything has gone to plan and on time. Patrice told Robin to dress up for an event on the roof, she had her suspicious but agreed to meet Patrice up on the roof at midnight dressed up on the request of Patrice.