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If there was one thing on Earth that Maria loved, it had to be the little moments she got as Robin Scherbatsky—a normal woman who had friends and a real life.
Now, don't get her wrong. Maria loved being the Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.LD. , it had been her dream job as long as she could remember but Robin was... Robin had people she could call her family. Nick Fury was the closest thing she had to a friend and even then he wouldn't think twice before killing her if she ever messed up. Robin was... Robin was real for Maria.
It had been 2005 when Maria was sent undercover as a news reporter, crossing paths with Barney and Ted, the two men who inevitably ended up becoming the epic loves of her life. That's when she first became Robin Scherbatsky, a woman who though was very much like her real self but still knew how to live. Maria found the gang that way—Ted, the hopeless romantic, Lily, the chatty one, Marshall, who was Lily's boyfriend and the 'mama-bear' and finally Barney, the playboy Maria did not know she would fall for.
They were her friends... her family.
Maria knew it was wrong to lie to people who loved her so dearly but knowing her identity put them in danger... Robin wasn't supposed to know the Avengers or even know how to knock down three grown men without losing a nail. Robin was the wall behind which Maria lived.
"Robin?" Lily broke the girl out of her thoughts, "Black boots or brown?"
Maria smiled, "You know how good you look in black, Lil."
Lily grinned before walking back into her room. Maria was currently at Lily's apartment, getting ready to go to the bar where the rest of the gang already were. The Accords had recently been passed and Maria had come back after 'a holiday in Argentina' where she had actually been trying her best to keep the Avengers together.
The Avengers were really just a bunch of kids in spandex.
"So," Lily said as she came back to the living room after instructing her dad that Marvin will need his night-night song, "What's going on with you and Barney? You seemed a little... tense."
