Barney and Robin were the first to talk, like they did at her funeral years earlier. They had been clinging arms together, beside each other when they were all quiet but now they have broke their hold on each other for Barney to start off this part of this small but intimate among the gang's tribute to the friend they all love and miss.
"Tracy, I want to thank you for your help and guidance because when we first met I wasn't in a happy place in my life. In fact, that time I was deeply depressed and hurting over Robin and the year I just had back then." Robin, looks at her husband and gives him a saddened but sorry look but he didn't notice because his eyes were on Tracy's grave. "If, it wasn't for your pushing me in the right direction to my realization that maybe Robin and I might have had one last chance to truly be together. Your, guidance and sincere concern was the best thing to ever happen to me." His, eyes start to get more blurry as he says this next part. "Because, Robin and I are together. We might have had our ups and our very low downs but we never stopped loving each other and with your help you saw something between us that we didn't. So, thank you for your guidance, support, concern, love and most of all your friendship. I'm saddened today because you never got a chance to meet our five year old daughter and that makes me a bit mad but also a lot sad because you would have adored her and she would have loved you. You, were that motherly appearance in our lives and if it wasn't for you seeing what me or Robin didn't then she would have never been born." Barney, finishes with, "I miss you, Trace thanks for the guidance it will always be missing in my life now that you're gone." And, the tears just kept coming for him and the rest of them after this moment.
"Tracy, I pretty much agree with everything Barney has said. Firstly, we do all miss you and I miss having another girlfriend in my life. Your advice and guidance really helped my life, if it wasn't for you then Barney and I wouldn't have gotten another chance to be together. I realized that Barney was always my saving grace in my life, he was my anchor but when we divorced I found myself feeling lost without my anchor or your advice. But, when you saw that we were obviously happiest while being together, I realized that my life was always the most happy when I was with Barney. You, didn't know this, we had kept this from everyone for a long time but Barney and I got married again a few months before you and Ted married. And, after a few years together and working on our relationship we had our daughter, and she is the best thing to ever happen to me and to us. Thanks, for helping me and guiding me towards my happiness again, the happiness I have always known." Robin, pauses to clear her throat and wipe her teary eyes and wet face to finish with. "Thanks, for being my friend I miss you a lot."
"Trace, I want to thank you for your friendship. I know we hadn't known each other for long after we met but I really had a great time hanging out with you and being a mom along side you. You, also gave me advice on lively things as well, whether it was on my kids or cooking or work, you had given the best advice even when we all didn't think we needed advice. You, were not only a great mom but also a great friend and I will always be grateful to have known such an incredible person, even though with the little time we had known each other before we actually met, because it seemed as though we have been friends for years already before then. I miss you, Trace wish you were still with us." Lily, stops to calm her emotions and then it's Marshall's turn to speak.
"Hey, Tracy. Even, though we didn't really know each other well enough in the few short years when you were with us. But, as everyone else I too miss your guidance and support, you were really a wonderful friend and presence in our lives and most importantly you made Ted very happy. For, a long time he was not happy, he missed you and was deeply depressed but now he's back to being the guy you loved and married. He misses you a lot, probably most out of all of us because you really did change his life and it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Thanks, for being a friend, a caring shoulder to vent on or cry on and this beaming presence in each of our lives." He, pauses and finishes with, "thanks, again Tracy wish you were still with us." Marshall, ends his speech and by this time everyone including the kids were crying, it was that emotional but also beautiful.
Hi, Trace. It's me, I don't know how to start this speech off but first I want to say that I miss you. I miss you so much, I have been so lost without you for all these years, it only took a recent event for me to snap out of this horribly sad depression because I missed you a lot. I don't think I have really had this all sink in, the fact that you're no longer here, with me and the kids. They really miss you too, we think about you every day, even when I was trying so hard to try to forget about knowing you." Ted's voice, started to crack a little as he tried to get through this speech. It was just as tough to express his feelings on Tracy as it was when he had to do her eulogy, but he tried to not get to overly emotional as he continues with what he was saying. "I miss you, I love you and most of all I have never forgotten you even if I tried to forget you are always there and I am always going to love you. I wish we had more time together, I wish we were able to grow old together, I wish you could see our daughter get married someday, I wish you were here to make me laugh in the mornings with your singing breakfast foods, I wish the kids got to know you better, they only had a few years to know how great a mom you were and how much they adored you, I wish that I can get back those missing years both before we met and after we lost you, we met too late and had too little of time together. But, I realize now that those times we shared, even though they were very short for my liking, I will forever cherish those times and those wonderful memories." He stops to clear his throat and to get in control of his emotions.
"I wish you could see our children growing up so fast that I don't even know if I want them to grow up anymore than they have already. I love you, always will and I will never forget meeting you or loving you. Wish you were here, we really all do miss and love you." He finishes, taking off his wedding ring, he had never taken it off and even thought it was a ring connected to Robin but it was and never would be because he has officially moved on from the past and is ready to move on to his new future. Whichever, way that would go.
The, gang all finished paying their respect and then shared a moment together in a circle hug. They all said a silent prayer then broke apart, after this they all gathered back at Ted's house for kind of a wake party, with how somber and sad they were at the cemetery it was good to be together and share in a laugh and make this day a happier one.
Barney and Robin, had stayed back at the cemetery for a bit taking in Tracy's grave sight and the new fresh flowers, balloons, hand written notes to her and Ted's wedding ring which is placed on top of her grave plaque. It was all so real and still new to them that Tracy even though it's been six years since she's been gone, the fresh items all around her grave seems fresh enough for a more recent death and not six years. It's just so real, present and current that it's even more emotional six years later than when Tracy just passed away. The couple just needed a bit more time alone after the others left to go back to Ted's house.
The official meeting between Ted and Brailyn hadn't been met yet because of the emotions over this day and the memories of the gang missing Tracy. So, they waited to officially have Ted and their daughter meet more properly, but first they did need sometime alone together.
"This, day was just like six years ago all over again. It was like it happened yesterday, I can't believe it's been six years." Robin says, her and Barney are in front of the grave sight staring down at it while she talks through some recent current tears.
"I know, it was just that horrible. I wish, she could have met Bri, she would have adored her and I wish she knew about our reunion and our second marriage. She has missed so much not just in our lives but her own kids lives and Ted's. She," Barney's voice gets shaky and emotional as he says this. "Should be here, to see it all." He says, Robin clings to his arm as her tears get more stronger. It really is just like yesterday that she's been gone, she has missed so much.
It took another few minutes for them to control their emotions but after sometime alone and taking in this sad scene in front of them, they finally gave her one last goodbye then they leave to join the others at Ted's house.
They arrive back at Ted's house 30 minutes later because they were still sitting in their car at the cemetery letting this whole event and day sink into their minds, it was that emotionally exhausting of a day. It really is exactly like the day of Tracy's funeral all over again.
"So, Ted. We would like to formally introduce you to our daughter. Ted Mosby, meet Brailyn Elisabeth Stinson or Ellie Stinson for short. Ellie, this is your uncle Ted." Barney, had made the official meeting or in this moment greeting of his daughter and his best friend (yes, he means best friend) Ted. It was a very emotional day for everyone, maybe this moment and meeting is a good way to change the mood.
"Well, hello there Ellie (Can I call her Ellie?)" Ted, asks Barney who nods and says "Yeah, everyone who really knows Bri calls her Ellie instead, we (meaning, Robin and myself) call her Ell most of the time. It's fine if you want to call her Ellie too." Barney, smiles at his daughter who was beside him, looking shyly on at her father and new found uncle talking.
"He-hello." Bri, shyly extends her hand to shake her new found uncle's hand. Smiling, lightly and nervously, look up at her father then at Ted.
"It's really nice to officially meet you, Ellie. "Ted, smiles for the first time this day at the daughter of his two best friends, realizing for the first time that Ellie really does look like Robin, a little too much in fact, she has her hair, her lips, her chin, her nose, but Barney's high forehead and eye shape. The blue in her eyes is the exact color of Robin's it's like looking at a mini Robin.
"Wow, she really does look like Robin. It's really uncanny." Ted, says not really shocked at all that Robin's daughter looks just like her, but also has a little bit of Barney in her face. For the first time since finding out that Barney and Robin have a child together, Ted finally realizes that she is real and she is really Barney and Robin's biological daughter and not just Barney's daughter.
"Yeah, she really lucked out on the looks. I'm so glad she looks like Robin and not like me." Barney, admits, having Bri looking like Robin was something he had always imagined if he had a daughter because he had always pictured himself being together, as a family with a daughter who looks just like her mom, Robin.
"Oh, why's that?" Ted, asks curious about why Barney said what he just said and he said it out loud for him and Robin too to hear.
"Because, I had always pictured, imagined that if Robin and I had been given another chance to be together that we would have a daughter that looks just like her. Robin, pictured it too. She, even pictured a son, our son who looked like me and suited up like me. We, we both wanted this life, the whole picture together, and after sometime we finally did get our relationship right, and got to have the family with the daughter we both imagined having who looks just like Robin." He pauses, looking over at Robin who was sitting in the living room talking to Lily. She, was beside Barney when he and Ted started talking but moved over to the couch then started to talk to Lily.
For, another first time in a long, long time Ted finally admits to himself that Robin was always meant to be for Barney. It was the first time since knowing Barney, that he finally admits that he's actually good for Robin and really does make her happy in a way nobody else including himself did or could.
The two friends, share a smile then Ted unexpectedly hugs Barney in a friendly bro-like manor then they go over to where Robin and Lily are currently sitting a chatting together.
"I would have never thought I'd see the day when you, and Barney are actually parents. But, this little girl clearly loves you both, I'm really happy that you two found each other again after your divorce." Another, sadness comes on around the living room as Barney and Robin share in a saddened but meaningful and loving look, thinking to themselves once again how meeting Tracy really did change their once miserable, lonely, lives and it really was the best thing to ever happen to both of them.
"Well, she clearly likes you already. You, two will quickly find the right balance as uncle and niece soon enough. After, this day we had it's nice to see you smile again for once in a really long time." Robin, paused her conversation with Lily when the guys came over to them. Barney, sits beside Robin taking her hand in his after giving her a quick kiss then continues to say what she was saying.
"It is, thanks for bringing her here and helping me get out of the funk I was under. I really did miss Tracy, I still do but I'm starting to move forward and on with my life because that's what Tracy would have wanted for me." Ted, is finally ready to move on, he isn't quite ready for any other relationship but he is moving on with his kids and his job because that is best for now after being so depressed for six years.
"We all miss her, we're glad you're out of that funk Ted we missed you just as much as we have Tracy." Robin, says putting one hand on top of Ted's as she smiled happy to see Ted finally admitting that he needs to move on but never forget having had Tracy in his life.
This day had been really depressing and sad but after six years of denial, depression, sadness and a life that could have been. Things, look better in the lives of each of the friends that Tracy made and the impact she made on the five friends. So, after six years after Tracy's death the gang, everyone's lives was happier because of Tracy being part of their lives. Barney and Robin, finally got their lives together as well as their relationship, getting remarried and having their daughter was the best thing to ever happen to them. After, this meeting-get together-wake Barney and Robin made the decision to have another baby, they had a son who they named Robert Tracy Stinson. Barney and Robin had finally moved out of the city to Westchester, close to Ted but not in White Plains. They, bought a house after they had that intervention for Ted and they never looked back.
As, for Ted he officially moved on with his life with his children. After two years, he did meet a new woman, he had been dating her for a couple of months but not in a serious way. They, were taking it slow but they really liked each other, Vivian had met Ted's kids and Ted met Vivian's son. Penny, would be getting ready for college in the next year and Luke would be a Junior in High School. But, Ted nor his kids ever forgot Tracy and will forever remember how important and special she was to them all.