Okay guys! New story! I know this has been done a lot too, but a lot of those stories got me thinking, and I really wanted to put up my take on the whole what if Dimitri left Rose to Guard Tasha because he wanted Rose to be the best he could be, not knowing she was pregnant… and well yeah… I promise to change it up! This story will be told in complete RPOV.

Hope you guys like it!

My Reality

Chapter One-

He's gone

I ran to the gym, Dimitri had told me that there was something he needed to talk to me about. It had been a week since the Strigoi attack, and things had begun to turn normal. Things were really looking up for Dimitri and me. He had called me and said that he needed to talk to me, tell me something face to face, and he couldn't say it over the phone. I was worried, but thought maybe it was good news.

When I got to the gym, Dimitri sat me down to talk to him. I could tell that he had been thinking long and hard about what he was about to say.

"Roza, you know I love you, right?"

"Of course I do, Comrade. And I love you."

"Rose, then you need to understand what I'm about to say," he paused, thinking of how to phrase the words that came out next. "Rose, Roza, I'm holding you back. Without me in your life, you have the potential to be the most amazing Guardian of all time. You can't do that if I'm there for you to drag along, for you to think about, to stop you from reaching your ultimate goal. So I've decided to become Tasha's Guardian. She's a good friend, and I'll never be able to love her, but that doesn't mean I can't be her Guardian."

"So, what you're saying is," I started, holding back the tears that were on the verge of escaping," that you're leaving. Leaving the academy, leaving me, and we'll never be together again."

"I need to give you room. You have to spread your wings. I'm leaving tonight, Roza. I love you, I do, but I can't have you. It's not the right path for you."

"My path isn't for you to decide, Dimitri. I love you," I couldn't hold back the tears any longer.

"I know, Roza, I can never choose your path for you; I can only help you down the right one, and right now, this is it. I must leave, Rose. Please, trust my judgment; everything will work out, in the end."

"I hope so," I said, as he gave me one last heart stopping kiss, and left. All that I could think was, 'He's gone.'

I woke up, and for a second, I had thought it had all been a dream, that is, until I noticed the two little bumps in my bed. Dimitri had left three years ago, and it had taken about a month after he had left for me to discover that I had been pregnant, with his child, children, actually. I gave birth to twin girls, Karina Janine Belikov Hathaway, and Calina Lissa Belikov Hathaway, even though the Belikov part is a secret only a few know, a few being Lissa, Christian, Adrian, my parents, Mia, Eddie, and the girls themselves, but they were both very mature for their age, and knew how to keep it a secret.

The girls were completely identical, both having my hair and nose, Dimitri's Eyes and Smile, and that made them the two most adorable little girls in the world. But their personalities were almost completely different. Sure they both were mature, but Karina defiantly had her father's personality. Sur she could be just as mischievous as her sister, but she always had a level head. Calina was a lot more like me. She could never seem to think straight, but whatever she does, she does wholeheartedly. And they both have a love for books than could only be from their father.

Though Calina and Karina are both extremely intuitive, and will probably both grow up to be kick butt fighters.

"Girls, what are you doing in mommy's bed?"

They woke up, looking cutely disheveled. "Mommy, we heard you talking in your sleep… you sounded like you were having a bad dream," Karina said.

"Yeah! Mommy, you must have been having a baaaad dream!" piped in Calina.

"Don't worry girls; it was only a memory from a long time ago. It can't hurt me," I said, a hand on each of their head. "Do you girls want to go back to sleep, or can mommy make you something for breakfast?"

"Pancakes please," Karina said.

"No, waffles!" Calina piped in, and then remembered to add, "Please."

Ah yes, the everlasting debate that has been going on in this household since they could talk. At least it wasn't too hard to make them both. "How about mommy makes them both for her special girls?"

"Thank you, mommy!" My little angels exclaimed.

We had been living here at court since I had graduated. I had managed to hide my pregnancy all throughout the school year, and then finally announced I was pregnant when we arrived at court. I was Lissa's sanctioned Guardian, but at court Guardian's didn't need to be around their Moroi 24/7. And I am also second in command of all the Guardians at court. Plus I always had a standing babysitter with Mia around; the girls knew to behave while I was at work.

Oh my God! Rose I have some news! I'm coming to your wing now!

The girls and I lived with Lissa and Christian in their house with them, seeing as it was huge, my little family had our own wing.

"Rose!" Lissa called out.

"I was just heading down to the kitchen to make the girls some breakfast, what is it, Liss?"

"Well, you know how Christian and I are getting married next week?"

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Well, uhm, Tasha decided to surprise us by coming early and will be staying here for the next week… with…"

"With Dimitri," I finished for her.

"Yeah, with him, I'm sorry."

"Oh, great, what am I going to do?"

"We're in this together, Rose!"

"Thanks, well, I better go make Karina and Calina some breakfast," I said, quickly getting dressed, getting the girls dressed, and heading downstairs.

The girls ran into the other room while I made them breakfast, making extra for anyone who might want. I wasn't as good a cook as Christian, but I was better than Lissa, so it'd have to do. I put a pancake on Karina's plate, and a waffle on Calina's plate, and went into the living room, only to find the girls happily talking to Dimitri.

It was a heartwarming sight, actually. They seemed to have instantly connected. It was good to be able to imagine what things could have been like, had he not left me, no matter how pure his reasons. And even if I still loved him, I had to wake myself up. I'm a single mother, and that's my reality.

"Girls," I called, making them, and Dimitri look up, the girls with big smiles on their faces, and Dimitri with a shocked expression on his face. Then I continued, "you're breakfast is ready!"

"Yay waffles! Thank you mommy," Calina said. Then Dimitri realized that they were my kids.

"Thank you, mommy," Karina said, giving me a warm smile, a smile that reminded me very much of her father who at this point was gawking at me.

As the girls went into the kitchen to eat, and as I was about to turn around and join them, a voice laced with a Russian accent spoke up and said, "It's been a long time, Roza."

I hope you guys liked it! And I'm pretty sure I want to keep Tasha in character, but obliviously clinging onto Dimitri constantly. I don't know… what do you guys think?

~Caitlyn