Who: Barney and Red. At it again?
Where: Red's apartment
What: Barney says that he
wants his scrapbooks back. Really, he wants to help.
When: Backdated to last nite. After Barney went out with Robin. So..late last nite!
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Barney was worried that he was Tedding out about things. )
He looked down at her tugging hand and grinned a little. "I'm racking up points to cash in later."
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"I have a tally board. You haven't seen it?" He snorted a little, grinning. "And you have fifty seven points. I have one hundred and three." Right. Of course he did.
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"Fifty points. At least."
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Barney paused, thinking, "Fourty five points." Putting her at one hundred and two. Still one behind him. Hah.
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She had looked through his scrapbooks, of course, both amused and a little weirded out. It consoled her, on an odd level, that Barney was the sort to keep trophies of his conquests. "Why didn't you finish my pages?" It was kind of depressing.
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"Jealous. That's all you are." He grinned, then shrugged the unoccupied shoulder when Red asked why her pages weren't done. "I--" Paused, "Haven't thought of awesomeness for the page yet. We've done a lot of crazy things." Barney replied with a laugh.
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"You didn't finish Robin's page either."
Yes, there it was again -- that monstrous envy and the forbidden "R" word. She was jealous, and though Red wasn't about to answer his accusation, she wasn't about to deny it either. She wanted him. For herself. Of course Red was accepting of the idea that other women were going to get their hands on him, but she had a boundless confidence in two things:
That no woman could do the things she did to him.
That he would always -- always be Hers.
She'd claimed him, and now they were inexorably tied.
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"She knew about the scrapbook before. Threatened me if I finished it!" He rolled his eyes, as if put out by that. Which he would have been! "Can you believe it? Pft."
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Sitting on the couch, she pulled Barney along with her, using his lap gently as her personal pillow because her real blanket and pillows were on the floor.
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"You know. I like you all drugged up." Said in teasing as he sat down and shifted so that she could lay her head in his lap. Using some awesome moves of legs and a slight bend, he picked up the blanket and laid it over Red.
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"And, you know, you're all in my lap and stuff. So. While you're down there.." He started, still grinning.
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Closing her eyes, Red began to drift.
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His hand lifted, as if to play with still damp hair, but dropped it until she fell deeper into sleep.
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