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• Scrambling for a Hand in the Darkness by PsychedelicBumblebee

  Fandoms: How I Met Your Mother  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  20 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Lily Aldrin/Marshall Eriksen
  • Lily Aldrin & Marshall Eriksen & Ted Mosby & Robin Scherbatsky & Barney Stinson
  • Robin Scherbatsky/Barney Stinson
  • Ted Mosby & Barney Stinson
  • Marshall Eriksen & Barney Stinson
  • Lily Aldrin & Barney Stinson
  • Barney Stinson
  • Marshall Eriksen
  • Ted Mosby
  • Lily Aldrin
  • Robin Scherbatsky
  • Victoria (How I Met Your Mother) (Mentioned)
  • Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Attacks
  • hand-holding
  • that should be a tag
  • Cuddling & Snuggling
  • Platonic Cuddling
  • Nightmares
  • Endgame Robin Scherbatsky/Barney Stinson
  • friendships
  • Marshall Eriksen is a good friend
  • Marshall is the dad of the group
  • 5+1 Things
  • sorta lol
  • Barney Learning to be vulnerable
  • and ask for help
  • Autstic Barney Stinson
  • Ted Mosby also has anxiety disorder
  • That'll be important later
  • Emotionally Repressed
  • Barney is I mean
  • Anxiety Attacks
  • Men Crying

  Summary

  “I- I don’- I can’- Lily-”

  -Marshall feels his heart stutter because-

  -Barney is crying, sobbing, fat tears rolling down his face and this frantic look in his eye that Marshall can’t bring himself to tear his eyes away from.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,192

  Chapters:

  4/4

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  16

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

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