crack_van | Totally Pretend by boundbyspells (PG-13)

Fandom: How I Met Your Mother
Pairing: Barney/Lily
Rating: PG-13
Author on LJ:

boundbyspells
Author Website: Bound By Spells

Why this must be read:

While I completely believe in the one true love of Marshall/Lily, there is a part of me that is secretly drawn to the awesomeness that is Barney/Lily. Ever since the days of early S2, really. I can't help it, because they're cute and charming and Aly Hannigan has magnificent chemistry with NPH.

boundbyspells evidently felt the same, because she wrote exactly the thing that could have happened.

Sometimes, or maybe it's most of the time now, Lily thinks about what it would be like to be married to Barney. It's hard not to: she's intermittently pretending to be married to Barney, and she's supposed to be married to Marshall right now. It’s a weird thing not to be Mrs. Someone You Expected To Be. It’s even weirder to be Mrs. Not-Stinson.

Plus, she hasn’t had sex in like five months.

Totally Pretend