crack_van | 75 Skills Barney Stinson Has Mastered by holy

Fandom: How I Met Your Mother
Pairing: Barney/Robin
Author on LJ:

holy_whatever
Author Website:

weetinyfic

Why this must be read:

The end of Season 3 left the Barney/Robin fen squeeing in delight and asking for more.

holy_whatever takes off from the finale, using Esquire's 75 Skills Every Man Should Master as the theme for every section. The relationship is built up slowly, the voices are just perfect and the end result is an absolute delight.

14. Chop down a tree.
She'd been on the phone with the Brooklyn Department of City Planning on and off for three days, and the conversation she had every time was the same.

"Yes, it's a beautiful tree, it's just that it blocks my view, it's directly in the path of my door, and every bird on the block lives in it. As a paying resident, don't I get any say in what's placed directly outside my building?"

Pause. "...yes, I know, ha ha, a tree that's growing in Brooklyn."

Pause. "Yes, I love trees too. No, I'm not anti-forestation."

Pause. "No, I just want to know if something can be done about it, you overreacting, overprotective tree-hugging jackass."

They usually hung up after that.

75 Skills Barney Stinson Has Mastered, Part One

75 Skills Barney Stinson Has Mastered by holy_whatever (R)