: Any AU head canon (modern, school, medieval, and so on)
Back at the Academy, Rose spent a lot of time thinking about what life might be like if she gave up being a guardian. She fantasized about Dimitri sneaking her off the Academy grounds and running away with her, taking her back to his homeland. Of course she had never seen the small town—at that point—but her mentor had described it in such vivid detail that she could picture it quite clearly in her head. She saw them settling down in a little cottage and living a normal life, far away from the constraints and demands of their society. They would find normal jobs, growing old together—safe and content in anonymity.
In her mind, that alternate life in Siberia would be heaven on earth—it would enable them to be themselves… free to be happy and in love, putting each other first instead of the Moroi.