"Connor!" She called in a louder voice than she intended. The result was hearing a loud crash and her husband cursing before he burst into their bedroom.

"Sarah, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

She immediately felt bad, she had ruined their first day off together in weeks already and it wasn't even breakfast time yet.

"Sshh." She hushed him and beckoned for him to come closer to her. She lay her head back on the pillows and tried to lie very still. She had been pretty sure she had felt something…

"What…? Are you sure you're alright?" He asked in a whisper, now climbing onto the bed to sit beside her.

She broke into a smile the second she felt it again, she didn't know if he would be able to feel it, but she took his hand anyway and placed it on her lower stomach.

"Oh. Oh, Sarah that's…" He tripped over his words and she knew he could feel it too. Their baby was saying hello.

According to her books and research, she could start feeling the baby kicking around twenty weeks but she hadn't really expected it to actually start this soon.

Breakfast, apparently, could wait. Connor made himself comfortable beside her and they stayed there long after the baby had stopped it's little kicks.

It wasn't such a bad start to the day after all.

Now that the morning sickness had eased off, Sarah could actually eat breakfast. As soon as her stomach started growling about an hour later, Connor hopped up to finish whatever he had been in the middle of making when she had interrupted him.

She had a shower, putting on one of his shirts to lounge in, one of the benefits of not having to leave the apartment that day.

These kind of days were rare, but just made her want to enjoy them more. It was crazy to think that in just a few months, their days of being just the two of them would be no more.

They had always been a private couple but their world was going to expand soon. Claire was adamant she would be the best aunt ever and the way she was talking, she wanted to move in next door just to see them more, Natalie told her she had to accept her offers of babysitting and then there would be the obligatory visits from the baby's grandparents.

The thought of that alone was enough to made Sarah's stomach nauseous again.

Her mother, she could deal with at a distance and had long made peace with the fact that she would never get the love and support she yearned for from her, but the thought of her visiting was tiring. It was times like that when Sarah missed her own maternal grandmother. For all her Mom's lack of attention, her grandmother had always cared, showed Sarah love and affection before she died suddenly when Sarah was twelve, leaving her even more alone in the world than before.

Luckily she had married the right man. Connor for all his adamant reassurances that he was not a Rhodes like his father, could turn on the charm and keep her Mom talking until it was time for her to leave. And therefore let Sarah off the hook of having to listen to her Mom's tales of success while making snide remarks about Sarah's life.

Connor's Dad was an entirely different kettle of fish. To say that he and Connor had a fraught relationship was an understatement. For the first couple of months of dating, Cornelius Rhodes had quite frankly scared Sarah and she quickly learned that her husband and his father had drastically different views on Connor's childhood. It was when Cornelius had tried to pay her off to stop dating his son because she hadn't the right pedigree that she decided she wasn't scared of him anymore, he was a bully who was afraid of losing control. And she would like hell let him control her and Connor's relationship, and was adamant he wouldn't get too close to their child either.

A point which Connor fervently agreed on.

"Are you sure you don't mind me kicking you out of the house tonight?" Sarah asked, hugging Connor as he was making some eggs.

"I suppose I'll get over it." He tried to hide his smile.

"Are you sure…"

"Sarah, as long as you're happy, I'm happy." He turned to wrap his arms around her waist, "And they're nice to you so I'm warming to this whole 'be friends with people from work thing'"

"Better be careful you don't get too exited about it." She teased, "Next thing you know you'll be wanting to renew our vows and having Will as your best man."

He laughed in return and kissed her before getting back to breakfast. Leaving Sarah to trawl through their music collection for a playlist for that night.

Maggie had put her foot down last week and demanded everyone organise their calendar and clear a night for a girl's night out. Which had quickly turned to a girl's night in when Sarah had finally officially told them about the pregnancy.

Maggie had also started to make her sit down more and ensured she had all the bathroom breaks and food she needed. Nat had reassured Sarah that Maggie had fussed over her too during her pregnancy but regardless, Maggie was now Connor's favourite person in Med.

So Maggie, April, Natalie and Monique were calling over to Sarah's tonight. Sarah felt it was only fair that she host the night after she had derailed the bar crawl idea.

Sarah had not let Connor live down the fact that Will had invited him to Molly's seeing as his girlfriend was abandoning him for the night too.

They spent the day relaxing together, catching up on research, both baby and work related, watched a cheesy movie and Connor read while she played the piano he had given her as a birthday present after her much loved, slowly dying keyboard finally gave up.

It wasn't long before she had to properly get dressed and Connor left for Molly's. The women arrived right on time, April announcing she had just manged to shake Doris before she left the hospital.

Sarah thought it would be awkward for a little while, while she tried to act as hostess and get to really know these people but it all went smoothly after Maggie demanded she sit down and enjoy herself rather than fussing over them and Monique launched into a story of her latest bad first date.

"Honey, the answer is that your get yourself a doctor, look at Nat and Sarah, they're doing it right." Maggie said.

"Hey, Will and I, I mean, we're not that serious yet…"

"Please." April interrupted Natalie's excuses, "That man has been following you around like a puppy for years. He's serious."

"Be glad you didn't have to be around and watch the never ending will-they-won't-they." Maggie informed Sarah.

"Okay, okay, just tell me this. How on earth does a girl bag someone like Connor Rhodes?" April asked as she poured the wine. Which just sent the others into a fitful of giggling. Obviously the night was going well.

"By frequenting the same diner at unsociable hours and being stubbornly naive while he thinks he knows it all." Sarah summed up in one breath.

"Oh you can't just tell us that and leave it there!" Maggie protested.

Sarah had never really had that before, people to gush over Connor with. When they were dating, sure she was friendly with some of the other students in her class and she would mention her new boyfriend in passing but they were never close enough to ask any further questions.

She smiled, resting her head in her hand, "Well we apparently were this 24 hour diner's best costumers, Connor was always in late and I was always in early before classes but one morning, I don't he stayed too late and I arrived too early and we were the only people there and the owner stuck up a conversation that we were both doing medicine. We didn't want to talk..." She laughed thinking of the memory, Connor didn't trust people and she didn't think people would like her. "I was certain I would go into pathology and he was certain he could do no wrong. Then we just kept bumping into each other until he offered to take me out to eat some proper Chicago food, and the rest is history guess…"

Sarah shrugged, thinking the women might get bored of her talking and want to move onto to something else but they surprised her and ended up going through her wedding photo album instead.

With multiple yawns and the knowledge of early starts the next morning, her guests decided the girls' night in shouldn't go too late but left rather reluctantly with promises to do it again sooner.

Connor arrived home not long after, with hair whipped from the windy night and his ever reliable leather jacket.

They went to bed pretty quickly, considering the big day they had the next day. Their twenty week scan. Even though neither had a preference for girl or boy, Sarah wanted to know now if she could. She knew a surprise would be nice at the delivery but with her now perpetual state of semi-panicking and organising, she needed all the certainties she could get.

"Did you have a good night?" She asked, nestled up against Connor, tracing her fingers over his heart.

"Yeah, you?"

"It was great actually." She admitted with a smile.

"I'm glad." He said dropping a kiss on the top of her head.

He was too quiet, she could tell something was up. "What's going on in that head of yours?"

"I've been doing some thinking. And I want you to think about it…" He said.

"What is it?"

"What would you think of me coming back to work in the ED?"

A/N: Thank you so much for reading!