Rose Hathaway was just the type to be a teenage mom, reckless, insubordinate. Everyone thought she was going to get pregnant, until she proclaimed her love for Dimitri Belikov. It comes as a shock to everyone that she gets pregnant, and since dhampirs can't have children together no one believes it's Dimitri's. So what does a girl do when she's a hormonal mess and no one believes her? She runs away.