Fic: After Sunset

[roland44]

Title: After Sunset
Fandom/Pairing: How I Met Your Mother, Robin/Barney
Spoilers: All the way up to 405- Shelter Island
Rating: G
Summary: How things pan out as the sun sets on Shelter Island
Length: 2,369 words.
Notes: This is my first fic, unbetaed, first ever post to LJ so forgive me if my formatting sucks, I need help! Please comment! =)

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Comments

[tigersroar]

Yay! High five for the first lj post! (I myself posted for the first time a couple of days ago.)

I'm liking this story so far, and really hoping that you'll continue; you will continue, right? Well I enjoyed it anyway, especially this line: and Barney had a blond dreadlocked girl with unshaven armpits (eww!) tied to his headboard. Hehe.

I love Barney's loyalty to his friends (love that trait on the show) and it's totally reflected in this fic, and also you included Drunk!Ted!! I love drunk Ted.

Thanks for sharing =)

[roland44]

Omg, first comment!! Yays!!
I loved your first fic, and am definitely looking out for more. You really took it to the next level, plotting out a whole awesome future for Robarn...

I'm so kicked that you'd like to read more! HIMYM usually doesn't follow up with plots immediately after something huge has happened (except the morning after scene in The Goat) so I thought I'd write about the simple but important repercussions of what's just happened, since the next episode is probably just going to cut to a few days later and not address the night after Shelter Island.

I got to cram a whole lot of classic HIMYMisms into this one since its the first one :P Prizes for anyone who can spot 'em all! (uhm, actually I'll get back to you about the prizes later...)

Do you think I should stick to this style? Its more descriptive than predictive, since I want it to closely follow the actual development of the show and not get into my own story arcs. Just wanted to write something to fill in the blanks...

[jamie55]

"she just closed her eyes, took a deep breath and counted to…around eighty-three…"
reference to 83, nice.

btw is this right:
"She needed to just…escape… from everyone, but especially from herself and her old life, which- no matter where in the world she was- just didn’t seem to be going anywhere. Type your cut contents here."
What's with the 'type your cut here'?

No way Barney would say Marshall was Ted's bestfriend. Only reasonable excuse would be Robin distraction.

sorry about that quoted as I read, should stop doing that..
Anywho I like your story so far too, and that barney sending an 'urgent' message to find Robin a place.

[roland44]

Thanks for pointing out the typo jamie! As I said, new to LJ and dealing with formatting issues - argh!

Yeah, I didn't mean Barney was settling with not being Ted's best friend, more like accepting Marshall and him being co-best friends to Ted, that this situation warranted Marshall to be with Ted. As you say, Barney had Robin on the brain too so maybe it was also due to subconscious Robin-distraction :) Thanks for mentioning it!

Quote as you read, by all means!!! I appreciate all the input I can get!

[jamie55]

Well that is good to know and you are by all means welcomed :)

[idioticonion]

Now I know this was posted ages ago but did you get any further with it? Because it's ace and the tone and character voices are really great...

(That's it, I'm caught up with your blog now!)

[roland44]

Thank you!! It was my first fic, first time I was letting out all my thoughts and feelings (yup, this show provokes feeeelings!) about what was happening to the characters. Unfortunately I didn't get equal inspiration from the episodes that followed (nor did I find time, and the drabble-a-thon pretty much left me drained), and didn't do more of what I call "episode follow-up fics".

I'll try doing more, let's see how Little Minnesota goes :)

[maybeitis]

omg! that was great! very well written!

im in ur livejournals, reading ur awesome fanfic!