Cuddy and House were now at home. It had been a month since they had the honeymoon in heaven and they were now currently back into reality, House was at work, Cuddy was on Maternity leave, spending time with Rachel before and after school.

She was in her ninth and final month of pregnancy and she was getting bigger by the day. House would often tease her about how big baby House was going to be, but she wasn't fussed, she just couldn't wait for the baby to be born as being nine months pregnant was a strain for her small frame- she was just becoming a bit impatient about the whole thing.

Today however she was going into work to check up on the hospital, even though House insisted that her replacement was doing a good job- she was not convinced and demanded that House take her to work with him.

Once they arrived at the hospital House went straight up to the diagnostic department, but not before kissing her on the cheek and tenderly stroking her belly.

"Be careful Mrs. House, you're carrying important cargo", House called to her as he stepped into the lift and waved to her as the elevator doors closed.

On her way to 'her' office she bumped into many familiar faces and received many congratulations and many questions from her staff, many were genuinely happy for her but the majority of staff were just nosy and probably had bets on when House and Cuddy's marriage would fail, but she didn't care, all she knew was that she was happy and so was House so why should she be bothered about what everyone else thought.

It wasn't until she was halfway down the hall to her office when a sudden gush of water began as suddenly her waters broke. Damn, she thought to herself- well at least she was in the right place for it. It wasn't until the excruciating pain of a contraction hit her that she realised she needed to get up to the maternity ward, fast!

A near by nurse witnessed the scene and rushed over to Cuddy as she could tell Cuddy was struggling to stay upright.

"Lisa," the nurse called. "Come on". She stated as she helped support Cuddy's nine month pregnant frame as best she could.

"Shall I ring Doctor House?" she asked, and with a nod from Cuddy she instructed another nurse to ring the diagnostician.

It didn't take long for a frantic House to stride out from the elevator and reach Cuddy who was now surrounded by a group of nurses who were all getting ready to take her to the maternity ward.

"How fricken' long does it take?" she yelled, obviously becoming impatient due to the mass amount of pain she was in, and even though it had only been ten minutes since he had gotten the call, to her it had felt like a lifetime.

The nurse pushed the wheelchair and House held Cuddy's hand, well more like Cuddy squeezed House's hand as they approached the elevator which was being kept open by another nurse.

When they finally reached a room that had been cleared and organised especially for the Dean of Medicine, Cuddy was quickly seated on the bed and suddenly surrounded by a mass amount of doctors and nurses who were checking both her and the baby, and seeing how much she was dilated.

"Wow, it's nearly there", House gasped in awe at how dilated she was.

"Arrrrrghhhhhh", Cuddy screamed as another contraction hit her, followed by many more close behind.

"I don't think I can do this House", she screamed, feeling exhausted.

"Well babe, you should have said that nine months ago", he laughed, finding the screaming Cuddy quite amusing, yet a part of him was also feeling almost guilty and helpless that she was in so much pain and he couldn't take it away from her. At least something good would come out of the pain; a beautiful little life would arrive in the world after her pain, a baby, their baby.

"Come on Lisa", one of the nurses encouraged, "Not long to go, this little one's very eager to meet you".

"Well as much as I'd like to say hi, I should probably leave you to it", House stated, not sure what he was supposed to do at this point.

"Sure as hell you are, get back here you coward", she yelled to House and she wiped her brow with her hand, hoping that it wouldn't be long now.

"Okay, come on calm down", House smirked, but Cuddy was not laughing at this point.

"Oh my baby", Arlene yelled, as she ran through the doors.

Great, Cuddy thought- just what she needed.

"I'm so glad I didn't miss the birth", she beamed, but at this point Cuddy had long since stopped listening to her, or any one for that matter and began cursing every single man on the planet for getting women pregnant, and she sure as hell had a lot of words to go along with her rage that in normal circumstances Arlene would be disgraced at Cuddy for shouting, but due to her being in labour, Arlene decided against giving her daughter an ear full on her language.

"Oh dear, that wasn't a very nice word", House mocked, knowing that Cuddy swore, but finding it funny that she was swearing in front of her mother- I'm sure House would always tease her about that from now on.

"Oh Greg", Blythe called, followed by the rest of House's team and Wilson who surrounded Cuddy looking down in sympathy as Cuddy carried on her rage and screams of labour pains.

Great, she thought again, an audience. But by now she didn't care at all, she just wanted the pain to be over, and she wanted the baby to arrive soon.

"It's like Cuddy's 'downtown' show", House smirked, as he watched the many faces staring down at Cuddy and then to the baby's visible head.

House stood by her side, and held her hand- as judging by the head it wasn't going to be long until baby House made an appearance.

"Oh, I can see my little grandchild", Blythe and Arlene called simultaneously much to Cuddy's annoyance.

"Great, well I can sure as hell feel your grandchild, and it aint no bed of roses", she screamed through the contraction, feeling like she was the only woman who had ever been in labour.

"Oh sweetie, you were a lot of pain for me too, I mean your head was huge", Arlene stated, much to Cuddy's embarrassment.

"Mom, I'm sure my head wasn't big, I mean it's perfectly fine isn't it", she cried, trying to level out her breathing.

"Your head is beautiful, the best I have ever seen", House assured, looking over to the rest of the 'audience' who were watching the scene In front of them- not daring to say a word. And that's when a sigh of relief sounded from Cuddy and the sound of 'babies' cried filled the room. Two, Cuddy had given birth to twins, and at that point House fainted...