TITLE: Me and You

AUTHOR: Verity

PAIRING: Susan/Chuck

DISCLAIMER: I don't own ER or Susan and Chuck or any other thing ER related.

"Chuck…" Susan whispered as she jabbed him lightly with her finger.

"Chuck!" she said again a little louder. Susan sighed as she pulled herself out of bed and looked down at the mess her sheets were in. She shrugged as she made her way to his side of the bed.

"Chuck!!" she yelled in his face. He sat up instantly, nearly knocking her out as his head narrowly missed hers.

"Wha – what?!" he spluttered as Susan frowned. "Oh my God!" He fumbled his way out of the bed. "It's time?"

Susan nodded, as the contraction eased. "It's time..!" she said, trying to sound enthusiastic, but failing miserably. She was scared, and uncomfortable and – what the hell was Chuck doing? She laughed out loud as he tripped up and stumbled as he tried to dress. "Dressing yourself long?"

He looked over at her. "I could say the same for you," he smiled, as he watched Susan struggle with her shirt. He took the shirt out of her hands and without much forcing, Susan allowed him to help her dress. She sat on the edge of the bed as he helped her with her shoes, and she looked down at him.

"What's wrong baby?" he asked as he looked up at her.

"We're having a baby…" she said, somewhat frightened. She always knew this part was coming, but now that it was here she realised how unprepared she was. She remembered back to a conversation with Carter weeks previously, he had asked how she was and she had answered 'tired and scared'. He asked if she was scared about giving birth, and she said she was scared about what came afterwards.

Chuck placed his hands on her knees and ran them up her thighs. He laughed lightly as he kissed her sweetly on her forehead and then again on her lips. "We are…and it will be fine Suze, I promise."

She smiled at him as he took her hand to help her off the bed. He led her through the apartment and picked up her overnight bag as they made their way out the front door.

Susan screamed and Chuck gasped loudly as another contraction hit and she squeezed his hand blue.

"I told you to drive faster!" Susan said through clenched teeth.

"Babe – I couldn't – "

Susan cut him off. "If you went faster, then we would've got here sooner and I could've had the drugs! Dammit!"

She screamed out again and Chuck tried to prise his fingers free.

"If you don't want to hold my hand you could just say so. I'll get one of the nurses to tie a cord around your balls and I'll pull it whenever I have a contraction – how does that sound?"

Chuck froze in his movements, using his hand to push the hair out of Susan's face instead. "No, no…hand is good."

"Thought so," Susan smiled as the contraction subsided and she leaned back against the pillows. "How much longer?"

"You're doing great Suze…"

"Define great. Because right now – " Susan tensed as the pain shot through her. Chuck held tight to her hand and crossed his legs for good measure. He didn't know whether she would live up to her previous threat. Susan couldn't help laughing at him and the petrified look on his face. No matter what, he always made her laugh. And he made her feel happy and safe. "I was only joking!" she smiled as she ran her thumb over his hand reassuringly.

"Yeah, but you're a different woman when those contractions hit!"

"But you still love me right?"

"I don't know…the screaming, ball grabbing Suze isn't as fun…" he laughed as she swung her hand in his direction. He caught her wrist and gently kissed her palm. "Of course I love you Susan."

"We're having a baby…" she whispered excitedly.

"We sure are!" Chuck laughed; she looked so cute – especially when her emotions swung from one extreme to another. He lent forward and kissed her softly, running his free hand over her belly.

"She better come out soon." Susan sighed.

"He might like it in there," Chuck replied.

"Really? You still on that boy thing huh?"

"Hey…little Chuck in there…"

"Little Chuck? I don't think so."

"We've had nine months to come up with names…how come we still haven't picked one?"

"I need to see her before I name her" Susan smiled as she affectionately ran her hand over her belly.

"Still on that girl thing huh?" Chuck teased her.

Susan pulled a face at him and rolled her eyes.

"How about dishes for a week?" Chuck looked at her and Susan looked at him confused. "You say a girl, I say a boy. Whoever loses has to do dishes for a week."

"We're betting on our unborn child?"

"We married in Vegas."

Susan shrugged he had a point. "I don't know"

"Chicken…" Chuck taunted her.

"Fine. You're on!" Susan challenged before cringing. Chuck just held up his hand for her to take – bracing himself.

"You owe me for this" he mumbled.

"You got somewhere else to be? Because you were more than enthusiastic in the making of the baby!"

As Susan's contraction subsided the door quickly opened and the Doctor smiled at them. "How are you doing Susan?"

"You tell me. You're the one who's looking." Susan cringed slightly as the Doctor examined her.

"8cm dilated and 90% effaced – very good"

"Should be soon" Chuck told her.

Susan rolled her eyes at him "I am a Doctor."

"But, you're also my wife…to be," he added quickly when it looked like Susan was going to correct him. "And that's my kid in there and I don't want anything to happen to either of you."

"We're you always this mushy?"

"You're the one that's nearly crying!" Chuck laughed as he brushed a few stray tears from her face.

"Hello…hormones!" she laughed.

Chuck smiled broadly as Susan braced herself for another contraction. "I've gotta push!" she yelled suddenly.

Chuck looked at her in surprise. "Now?"

"No tomorrow." Susan groaned as another contraction quickly followed the first.

"Ahhh…okay, I'll go get…"

"Don't you dare leave me," Susan pleaded as she grabbed his arm as he went to leave.

"Okay, its okay Suze…" he took her hand and sat back down, running his hand lightly over her hair before reaching for the call bell. A nurse arrived almost immediately.

Susan yelled aloud as she continued to push. She had been present at many births in the ER, she had seen the good and the bad, but with all of that she realised she was never prepared for her own labour.

Chuck counted her through and she collapsed in exhaustion after he reached ten. "You're doing great Suze, "he encouraged her. "We're almost there."

Susan didn't say anything, so many overwhelming emotions ran through her – love, sadness, gratefulness to Chuck for being there and hate for him and his part in putting her through all this pain. She turned her face towards him and tried to give him a smile. He leaned forward and kissed her sweetly. "We're nearly there…" he whispered again as she began to push again.

"Heads out." The Doctor announced and Chuck made his way down the bed to see.

"Oh my God Suze, it's a real head!"

"You don't say…" Susan muttered as she felt the need to push again, and signaled for Chuck to take her had again. "Kill me now…" she said through gritted teeth.

"Susan, honey, you are doing great, just one more push," Chuck encouraged her.

Susan gave her final push and the whole room went quiet for a few seconds before a piercing scream rang out.

"Congratulations Susan, Chuck you have a beautiful girl."

Chuck stood up and looked from the baby to Susan and then at the baby again in awe. The tiny girl was placed in Susan's arms and she cried out a little as the baby reached out towards her.

"She's so small…" Chuck said, slightly amazed.

"She's so beautiful…" Susan gushed, as a few more tears streamed down her face. She was exhausted, but couldn't take her eyes of her beautiful daughter.

Chuck sat next to Susan on the bed and gently ran his fingers over the baby's face and took her little hand. She instantly gripped his finger. "Oh she is definitely like her mum," he laughed. "She grips as hard as you do."

Susan laughed wearily as she rested against the pillows. She looked up at Chuck and then down at her daughter, she had never felt happier then at this very moment. "I win." She said suddenly. "You owe me Chuck Martin."

"We still sticking to that bet thing?" he joked with her and she laughed lightly as the baby yawned in her arms.

"So have you thought of a name?" he asked her.

Susan shook her head. "I have a few but I don't know" she replied.

"What are they?"

"Emily?" she looked up at him.

"Nope, she doesn't look like an Emily. How about Grace?"

"I knew a girl in high school called Grace and she was an absolute bitch."

"So that's a no for Grace?"

Susan nodded. "Sarah, Catherine, Laura?"

"Sarah."

"Sarah." Susan looked at the tiny girl in her arms. "Hi Sarah." The little girl opened her eyes and looked up at her mother.

"I think she likes it." Chuck said proudly, standing as Susan shifted in the bed.

"Don't move…here," Susan said as she handed Sarah to him.

He held her lightly and smiled down and his baby girl, before leaning over to kiss Susan again. "I love you."

"I love you too." Susan rested against the pillows further and slowly shut her eyes. Chuck silently stood and carried his daughter out of the room, leaving Susan to sleep peacefully.