Note: This isn't a very long chapter. I just wanted a cute chapter of them enjoying the pregnancy.

May 29th, 2004

Week 8

It was unbelievable. She was pregnant. Susan had always dreamt of being pregnant. A baby of her own...Her and Luka's baby. Susan giggled softly.

"Our baby." She said. Luka looked up from the newspaper.

"What?" Luka asked.

"I've been thinking about the baby." Susan said.

"Good. Me too." Luka said, "I've been thinking about names. It's tradition for men in my family to have the middle name Nikolai."

"Luka Nikolai." She giggled, "I God, I can't believe you're thinking about names already."

"Do you like Nikolai?" He asked her. Susan nodded.

"I think it's a perfect name." She said.
"I would really like to have names picked out soon." Luka said handing her a baby name book.

"Why?" She asked.

"Because it's my belief that life starts at conception." Luka said with a twinge of saddness in his voice, "I know better than anyone else does that life is a precious thing. I want my child to have a name if anything god forbid happens to it." Susan's face softened. She couldn't handle if anything happened to the baby.

"All right." She said picking up the book.

"Croatian or Russian names." He said. Susan smiled as she opened it up. There were already named highlighted.
"All right." She laughed, "Alexandra...No. Alena. Mmmm...No. Annabella. I like that one."

"You do?" Luka asked.

"Yeah." Smiled smiled.

"I also have Bryna, Daria, Erica, Freya, Cora and Matilda." Luka was grinning form ear to ear as she flipped through the book.

"Well, how about..." Susan thought for a moment, "Annabella Joy and Dmitri Nikolai?"

"Are you serious?" Luka asked.
"Well, yeah, Luka. you said to pick out some names and I did." Susan smiled with amusement "Don't you like?"

"I love." Luka said looking at her belly, "I can't believe you're having my baby." Susan blushed softly. She couldn't believe it either.

"Now, before you interrupt me again, I wanted to run something by you." Susan said.

"Okay." Luka chuckled as he gave her an apologetic smile.

"We're having a baby, " Susan said, "This is a two-bedroom house. We'll need something bigger."

"I know. I was thinking about that earlier." Luka said, "We'll go house hunting soon."

"Good." Susan smiled as she sipped her apple Juice. Everything seemed to be falling into place and going well. It was a little scary.

June 13th, 2004

Week 10

It was getting hard to button her pants now. Her stomach was queasy. her breasts were sore. She was falling asleep every single minute. She couldn't stop puking. Her hair was more oily than usual. This pregnancy thing was the worse.

"Move." Susan ran past Luka and into the bathroom. Luka stared at the bathroom.

"Susan? Are you okay?" Luka walked to the bathroom. He heard her coughing. "Susan?"

"Go away." She groaned.

"I'm not going away." Luka said, "Can I get anything for you?"

"Make my morning sickness go away." Susan moaned. Luka opened the bathroom door and saw a very pale faced Susan sitting on the floor. He sighed softly.

"Let's get you in bed." Luka bent down and helped Susan to her feet.

"That's how we got into this situation in the first place." Susan mumbled. Luka chuckled as he walked her into the bedroom.

"I know." he said. Susan crawled into bed.

"Is this how Danjiela was?" She asked. Luka nodded.

"She was so dehydrated we had to take her to the hospital a few times." He said, "We're going to pump you with water."

"I don't really like water." Susan chuckled as she cuddled into the bed, "I should talk to Kerry about maternity leave and what I can and cannot do I guess...Does County give paternity leave?"

"Oh...I don't think so." Luka chuckled as he got next to her in bed. Susan smiled softly as she snuggled into him.

"Oh Well." She said, "Do you think the baby will be born on Christmas?" Luka shrugged.

"It's a possibility I suppose." He said, "It'd be nice."

"Yeah It would." Susan smiled, "Suzie is already telling everyone she's getting a baby brother."

"What is she going to do if it's a girl?" Luka asked.

"I don't know." She chuckled closing her eyes. It was so cool to see Suzie so excited for this baby. It'd be a long road ahead of them with Suzie asking when it was coming every seven seconds. "I'm so happy, Luka."

"Me too, Susan." He kissed her head. "We really need to go house hunting, Susan. I don't want my kids to be all cramped together." Susan nodded as she thought about it.

"When we have time off of work, we'll go." She said. Susan sat up, "A real house, Luka. I want a two-story house with a huge back yard and maybe a whit picket fence." Luka nodded.

"Well, you're going to get it." He said, "Maybe even a garage." Susan chuckled softly.

"A garage would be nice." She said. Luka rubbed her belly.

"We should have a movie night tonight." He said. Susan nodded.

"Sounds nice. A family night." She said.

"I'll go to the video store and get a movie. Then we'll pop some popcorn and curl up." Luka smiled. Susan's face turned green.

"Oh god." Susan slid out of bed. The mere thought of popcorn sent her stomach soaring. "Oh god." She bolted for the bathroom and began to throw up. Luka sighed softly. This was going to be a very long pregnancy if the sickness kept up.

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