So, I was rewatching HIMYM and being bitter about the finale, and then I came up with a fix-it AU, in which Tracy doesn’t die and Barney and Robin stay together forever:
In the hotel room when Robin gives Barney the out, he doesn’t take it. He says that it’s hard, but he loves her, and being together is worth a little pain. (something a la “With you, the trouble doesn’t seem so troubling”)
Anyways, so they agree to try couples’ therapy because they want to save their marriage. They go maybe twice and sit their awkwardly before deciding it’s really not for them. But they don’t give up.
Robin talks to Lily who tells her that marriage sometimes requires sacrifice. Robin mulls over this for a few weeks. Things are weirdly tense between her and Barney, but they still love each other and that’s enough to get them both through.
Robin really doesn’t want to give up her job, and she knows Barney would never ask her to do that. This is her dream. But, she realizes, the traveling…That’s not her dream, even though she loves it. Her dream is to be a journalist. At this point, she has enough esteem as a journalist to get a local job, writing for some big name news company…Maybe the NY Times, I don’t know.
They stay in New York permanently, but when they can both get time off from work they go on vacations and travel.
And it’s not like Robin gives up her dreams for Barney or anything like that. Her local job is just as amazing and rewarding as the international one. And he never asks her to do it. He never makes her choose between her dream and him. He’s ecstatic when she tells him, but he makes sure it’s what she really wants.
Eventually Robin wins Pulitzer. Or maybe two? I don’t know, the point is, she’s wildly successful
They get some dogs. They have like four dogs at any one time for the rest of their lives.
At one point, Robin asks Barney if he wants to adopt a kid, because she can’t have children. Barney says that he knew going into it that she didn’t ever want kids, and that if he had really wanted kids that much, he wouldn’t have married her. He’s happy just being the world’s most awesome uncle to Marshal and Lily’s three kids, and Ted and Tracy’s two kids. (it’s important to me that Robin never has kids)
Tracy gets sick, but she gets better and she DOESN’T FUCKING DIE. She and Ted are extremely happy together.
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