Title: Asparagus
Summary: Ted and Marshall make a discovery.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13. 
Word Count: 366
Challenge: barneyrobin comm Fanworks round 1
Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM, Gen
Spoilers: For Season 6 - Legendaddy

( Barney jumped and slammed down the lid of Ted’s laptop with guilt written all over his face... )

Title: Lost
Summary: One by one, the gang end up stuck in the Oceanic executive flight lounge.  But for each of them, something is very different
Rating/Warnings: PG, crack!madness. Just daft.
Word Count: 2,207
Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM: Gen
Beta: da_phoenix13 
Spoilers: AU, future!fic, or something. Heavily inspired by a certain TV programme about ( Read more... )

Lily could feel her body being dragged upright, the discomfort under both arms, the pain in her toes as they scraped along the floor behind her. She was dimly aware of rough hands mauling her, of being manhandled by two hulking shapes, two things that might have been men a few months ago. They might have just been normal guys, ( Read more... )

Part 3

Good and evil, they seemed such old-fashioned terms. What, really, is good? What is evil? Someone had to have the power in this lawless place. Someone had to pull everyone together. So, it turned out to be him, and his years of experience dealing with jerks of all ages, creeds and social statuses had put him in the ( Read more... )

Part 2

Ted raced down the stairwell of the deserted police station. Barney wasn't far behind him, making the occasional grumble of complaint about the narrowness of the corridors and the number of feathers he'd lost during this mission so far. The place was shrouded in semi-darkness lit by tiny emergency lights at floor level. The ( Read more... )

Title: Hell can be anywhere
Co-fic with: snogged 
Overview summary: This is the story that Ted will never tell his kids...
Rating/Warnings: Adult - dark, slash, adult language (sexual slurs), violence, abduction, mind-fuckery, dub-con/non-con.
Word Count: 1,526 in this part
Fandom/Pairing: HIMYM/Buffy: Angelus/Ted with a Willow/Marshall friendship
Spoilers: ( Read more... )

Part 4

"You idiot!"

Lily thwacks Barney across the back of the head with a rolled-up MacLaren's menu before sliding into the booth beside Marshall. "What in the hell, Barney?" She rounds on him, mascara smeared across her cheeks. Marshall drapes his arm around her but she shrugs it off as she realizes the mess Barney's in, ( Read more... )

          It's funny how your brain suddenly doesn't know the way from A to B. How, in the moment after you hear that your friend's been shot, your mind decides to do a dump of unconnected thoughts, right into your frontal lobe.

But there are things that stand out; Memories and fragments, snatches of conversation.

~ "I wasn' ( Read more... )

Part 2

It gets worse over the next few days. Barney gets ragged. His usual polished appearance degrades. There's a shadow across his jaw, and beneath his bloodshot eyes. He gets drunk every night and clumsily hits on anything that moves. There's an air of desperation about him that seems strained.

Marshall's always secretly ( Read more... )

          Marshall's fingers wrap around the metal cord and yank, sending the shutters tumbling down across the window. Blinking in the gloom, he sits heavily on a conference chair and bows his head down, resting his cheek against the cool wooden table.

There are words trapped inside him, suspicions and secrets. And as much as Marshall ( Read more... )