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Title: Aspirations by Lexie
Fandom: How I met your mother
Character/Pairing: Robin Scherbatsky, Barney Stinson, Ted Mosby, Lily Aldrin, Marshall Eriksen
Word Count: 1181
Summary: "Robin finally gets the break she's been waiting for, and she is totally, 100% professional and mature about it."
Why I Rec This Fic: The shows treatment of Robin made me really angry and sad at times, I wanted her to find her way and the show seemed so determinded to break her down to fit gender sterotypes (note I havent seen the show in years and not all of it, or all of what i saw chronological so this is my personal impression and may not be what you remember/know) – so this fic is a nice contrast to that. Its funny and sweet too.

Barney: aren't you supposed to be at that fancy new job now, anyway?
Robin has one panicky leg in a pair of trousers, her toothbrush hanging out of her mouth as she hops, before she realizes that it's Saturday morning.
"You're the worst," she tells Barney, with no preamble, when he picks up his phone. He does the evil laugh that he's been practicing for his latest hook-up persona (a supervillain who owns his own island), and she hangs up on him.

Title: And some stories you don't tell by Kyra
Fandom: How I met your mother
Character/Pairing: Lily Aldrin/Ted Mosby
Ted Mosby, Lily Aldrin
Word Count: 1121
Summary: "Here's the story Ted's never told:"

Ted knows a lot of things about Lily. How when she was a kid, she used to wet her toothbrush in the sink, so her mom would think she'd brushed her teeth even when she hadn't. That there are a lot of things she can pass up, Ted, but a half-off shoe sale is not one of them, so hold her purse, she'll be back in ten minutes. Fifteen, tops. That her favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry. How she sounds during sex.
The last is from four years of college on the top bunk, and six more years across the apartment. Discreet Lily and Marshall are not. "God, how can you stand it?" Robin asked when she first started staying over, and it took Ted a minute to realize what she was talking about. ("Oh, Marshmallow!" Lily said.) "I... guess I don't hear it anymore," he said, which wasn't entirely accurate. It's more that he hears it and doesn't think about it. It's just normal.

Title: Sitting in the Dark by torigates
Fandom: How I met your mother
Character/Pairing: Marshall Eriksen/Robin Scherbatsky
Marshall Eriksen, Robin Scherbatsky
Word Count: 1299
Summary: "It wasn’t that Robin couldn’t love, or even that she didn’t want to, it was just that she had never allowed herself to open up to another person in the way that Marshall and Lily opened up to each other. She couldn’t, not even with Ted."
Warning: Sex, 

She banged her head against the roof of her car. “Ouch,” Robin said chuckling slightly.
“Are you okay?” Marshall asked, his hand cupping the base of her skull.
Robin nodded. “Just clumsy,” she said. “This was a lot easier when I was sixteen.”
Marshall chuckled. “We’re too tall for your tiny car.”
Her smiled faded. Lily wouldn’t be too tall for this.

Title: Not Always Going to be This Grey by cashewdani
Fandom: How I met your mother
Character/Pairing: Marshall Eriksen/Robin Scherbatsky
Marshall Eriksen/Lily Aldrin
Robin Scherbatsky/Ted Mosby
Marshall Eriksen, Robin Scherbatsky, Ted Mosby, Barney Stinson, Lily Aldrin
Word Count: 3950
Summary: "Oh, Ted, by the way, I dream about having sex with your girlfriend, so, I probably shouldn't be left alone with her. You agree, don't you? Wonderful."
Warning: Unresolved Sexual Tension, Infidelity, Masturbation

It's the third morning in a row that Robin's come to eat breakfast wearing only a t-shirt of Ted's. She's got on purple underwear. Yesterday it was pink, and yellow the day before and he doesn't like that he knows that. Even with her bare legs under the table he can't stop thinking about it. It's turning him on a little and at the same time making him miss Lily and he's not even sure if those two things are related. Lily only owned black panties.
Looking at Robin, Marshall's suddenly not very interested in the toast Ted made him promise he'd eat. But, it's not like he can just stand up in his boxers right now and not have both of them know he's kind of hard. He's trying not to blush, and not be a pervert like Barney, and starts working on ripping his crusts off as a distraction. She's left to go get ready for work before he's even made it up to Boise in listing the state capitals. Looking down, there's two mutilated pieces of bread on the dish in front of him and his hands are shiny with the grape jelly Ted had also insisted on because it's kind of a fruit.