Disclaimer: The characters and locations don't belong to me, I'm not trying to become rich whit this, blablabla. I think is clear, all belong to Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.

Author's note: this is an alternate ending of the series and, so, although it tooks several things about the finale, ignores many others. Nobody gets divorced and no body steals some blue french horn and probably nobody dies. It's focused in my favourite pairing: Barney/Robin. Also, english is not my mother tongue, but I can't imagine translating all the usual expressions of the characters, so...

A ten

Twenty four hours married. If someone told Barney that he was gonna marry Robin eight years ago, he surely had laughed. But it happened. And now they were married for twenty four hours and it's 100% awesome.

"So, Mrs. Stinson or... Mrs. Scherbatsky?" he asked, finale.

"Seriously we never talk about this?"

"Nope. We're busy having sex, planing disasters as bachelor's partys and rehearsal dinners, being awesome, planning a wedding... That kind of stuff," he resumed.

"Get it."

"So...?," he asked again. "Of course we can forget about it and instead have sex. Or get drunk to celebrate that we're survived to this twenty four hours. Or both."

"I think Scherbatsky sounds better," she finally said, cautiously, "at least with Robin Charles." It was true that they never talked about things like their last name, and she wasn't sure if Barney was going to be okay with her decision of keeping her last name.

"Decided," Barney said as fast as Robin end the sentence, like if that doesn't was a big deal. We'll it was not a life-or-dead decision."So... Sex again?"

A phone rang. Robin go to the budoir and looked at her cellphone. Really her friends can't survive twenty four hours without her? She draw a smile on her face when she read the message.

"It's Lily," she said.

"C'mon! I tell you, these friends don't know any boundaries. It's our honeymoon!," Barney complained. "Twenty four hours? Really?"

"She says something about a ten."

Barney stood up and reached Robin.

"I tell you, they can't survive without our awesomeness. Or it's a gossip and Marshall isn't there and she has to tell to someone urgently and it's really a ten?," he guessed.

"Ted doesn't go to Chicago," said Robin just after open the next text Lily sent to her. "She met a girl."

"What?!"

"The bass player."

"What?!"

"He called her fifteen minutes ago."

"What?!"

"I think is everything." Robin left the cellphone in the budoir again ant stared at Barney's face. "So... What are you just saying about how to enjoy this honeymoon?" The she realised that Barney's already took his cellphone and he was making a phone call. "Oh! Really? It's our honeymoon!"

"Two seconds," he said and then he shout to the cellphone: "Three days! It's not difficult to wait three days. Three days, Ted, damn it! And my hand still hurts, by the way!" Then he hung up the phone and looked at Robin. "Drunk with Scotch, sex or both? I don't want more interruptions."

Yeah, that totally happen in my mind. After all the drama with Ted moving to Chicago I suppose that Marshall and Lily can't wait to give the news.

Andrea Poulain

November 27, 2014