[ EU ] Re-write the ending of How I Met Your Mother the way you wanted it to end .

Not exactly a rewrite - this is how I think it could have ended. 
 
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 Season 8 - through season 8 Ted slowly becomes more desperate as he fails time and again to find love. As Barney and Robin plan their wedding Ted realises that he has now lost Robin for good. He considers whether he really has feelings left for Robin but decides he does ***not*** and that he will be happy for his friends. 
 
 Season 9. 
 
 Barney and Robin get married at the start of season 9, episode 1 finishes after Ted gives his speech and then sits outside, despondent as he still has n't met his true love. He is trying to drink and get wasted but no matter what he drinks he stays sober. 
 
 As the evening goes on he speaks to his friends and one by one they tell him to be patient and hand out good advice. Eventually he decides reasonable and with good grace that he's going to head back to the city that night on the train. 
 
 Heading tot he station, he sits and waits until he looks up and sees the pretty bassist from the band who were playing. A thought occurs to him and he stands and walks over to her: 
 
 `` Excuse me, I'm so sorry but where did you get that yellow umbrella?'' 
 
 The camera moves back and we see them standing, talking, laughing and happy on the platform. Music starts and V/O - 
 
 `` And that kids was how I met your mother. Now the story doesn; t end there of course but that magical moment was where...'' 
 
 `` HORSE SHIT.'' 
 
 The camera cuts to modern day Ted and then spins to the Mother, standing in the doorway. 
 
 `` You really want them to believe that pack of lies?'' 
 
 `` shut up - we agreed that was the story we'd tell them.'' 
 
 `` Okay kids.'' mother sits next to modern Ted. `` Here is the real story. See your Dad did sit outside the wedding drinking but he has never been able to hold his alcohol.'' 
 
 Cut to Ted on grass, drunk. 
 
 `` He did ask his friends advice and they tried to help him but he was a little... distracted.'' 
 
 Ted slurringly asks his friends for advice, they try to give it to him and he ignores it/throws up/feels up some passing girl. 
 
 `` Then your father decided to go home.'' 
 
 Lily - `` Where's Ted?'' Marshall - `` Er, no idea, not with you?'' 
 
 We see Ted, drunk and swigging from a stolen whisky bottle running away and weaving his way to the train station. 
 
 `` and there your father met me.'' 
 
 Ted sits on the platform and swigs, he sees the mother and the music swells, he stands, walks over and throws up on her shoes.'' 
 
 Cut to: Kids - `` You threw up on her?'' How did you guys ever end up getting married?'' 
 
 Mother: `` Well, he wouldn; t leave me alone, followed me onto the train and then passed out. He woke up a couple of hours later, hungover as hell and still a little drunk but full of apologies and remorse. By the time we got back to New York he'd persuaded me to go for breakfast with me.'' 
 
 Cut to: Ted, head in hands. 
 
 Cut to: Mother: So that's the story of how we met kids. 
 
 Cut to: kids `` Ew, gross dad.'' 
 
 Cut to: Mother: but that's how we met, how we fell in love was a whole other matter. 
 
 End of episode 1. 
 
 Season 9 then covers their courtship and marriage which occurs at the end of the season. 
 
 In season 9: 
 
 Marshall becomes a judge - a night court judge who sees the most ridiculous cases. 
 
 Barney puts all his efforts into a new job, motivational speaking. He finds that he can use his powers of seduction on a whole new group - men - business men. He no longer needs to seduce women out of their pants as he seduced men to give up their money. 
 
 Robin finally becomes the anchor of a major show... on Fox. 
 
 Lilly works for the Captain in New York. 
 
 Ted and the mother - we see their relationship flower but it is the mother who is the seducer. We see Ted and her falling in love, doing things together and she integrates into the group. 
 
 We end on their marriage, the last episode the mother and Ted telling the kids about their wedding day and the final shot being their `` I Do''.
