Iris gasped awake, she was panting and shaking all over she groped around the alarm clock and saw that it was six thirty in the morning, merlin that was a reminder she thought, every detail of the particular night was etched into her mind, she couldn't believe that she had a mild crush on Riddle when she had come across him in the diary.
Iris shoved that all into the back of her mind and dropped back down onto the bed staring up at her white ceiling
"It's all in the past" she murmured to herself "no need to re-live it"
With that thought she focused back on to today where she remember that it would be night of the Founders parade, there was a small part of her that was excited by the prospect of getting dressed up, and for the first time in a long time being very, very girly.
She smiled at that and rolled on her side and closed her eyes relaxing her muscles.
After about another fifteen minutes in bed she swung her legs out of bed and headed towards her bathroom. She went through her usual morning routine and had a quick shower. Iris dried herself off and slipped on her underwear and bra, the raven head rummaged through her closet and slipped on a simple skirt and a navy blue peasant top.
She brushed her thick hair and pulled it into a low bun.
Iris slipped on her flats and rushed downstairs she must've taken longer than she thought since she was running late. She slurped down her tea but then immediately spat it out
"Oh, oh, hot, hot" she waved at her tongue attempted to cool it down but it was no use, iris poured herself a glass of water and sighed when the cool liquid slid down her throat.
She jumped when her phone beeped and saw that she'd got a text from Elena
'That was the funniest thing I've seen in ages"
Iris eyes widened she looked out of her kitchen window and saw Elena, Jeremy and Jenna all laughing with wide smiles across their faces, a blush bloomed across the apples of her cheeks
She replied back to Elena's text
'I hate you'
Iris looked through the window and witnessed Elena showing the text to Jenna and Jeremy who laughed even harder; she rolled her eyes and shook her head. Iris felt oddly light knowing that the brunette teen looked as if she had patched things up with her brother. After all Elena had told Iris what happened and how Jeremy remembered what happened that night when Vicki attacked.
Iris grasped the strap of her messenger bag and her keys and headed out.
"Oh I'm looking forward to tonight" Caroline grinned
Iris nodded along wanting someone to come and rescue her from the chatty blond as if her prayers were answered Stefan appeared
"Stefan" Iris smiled brightly at him, he gave her confused looked, she discreetly nodded towards Caroline who was looking over to Matt walking past her
"Save me" she mouthed
He held in a laugh but nodded
"Caroline you don't mind if I borrow Iris do you? Elena needs to talk to her about…"
"Dress" the petite teen blurted out
"Oh, are you coming tonight then?" Caroline asked getting excited
"Yep, got to make sure Elena got the right size"
"Of course, go" Caroline shooed her away, Iris grabbed Stefan's arm and practically dragged the taller teen with her
"Thank you" Iris muttered as they arrived at the history classroom, she sat in her usual seat next to Stephan and behind Elena "I like her, but my god that girl can talk, how many ways are there to say a guy is good looking?" she asked rhetorically
Stefan shrugged and smiled when he saw Elena coming in, Iris snickered lightly seeing this
"You are so lovey dovey, the pair of you" she commented just then Alaric strolled in starting the class, Iris caught Bonnie's eye and was relieved when the dark skinned girl sent her a small smile, which she returned whole heartedly returned.
Elena chuckled and whispered "Watch when you find someone you're going to be like us"
Iris snorted loudly much to their amusement; she felt her cheeks heat up when she saw the whole class included Alaric looking at her
"Erm…Stefan don't do that" she scolded making Elena, Bonnie and Caroline as well as the rest of class to snicker
"My god why do you always pick on me?" the vampire asked grumpily
"Because I like you the best" she whispered giggling
"Was there something alcoholic in your tea in the morning?" Elena asked amused
"Nope" Iris murmured "just have to push the attention towards the Stefan"
"Iris" Alaric sighed "do you have something you would like to share with the class?" he asked getting tired of the whispering in his class
The raven head shook her head
"Well would you listen?" he asked
Iris bit her lip and nodded feeling a tad bit guilty and proceeded to pay attention to him.
Iris sighed as she finally arrived home; it was quarter to four she had made quick work of re-shelving all the books in library and quickly drove home.
She dropped her bag on her desk and looked through it and pulled out some books she had taken out. Iris grabbed her car and house keys and made sure her door was locked behind her and walked towards the Gilbert's house. She raised her fist and knocked twice waited, the door opened revealing Jeremy
"Hi Jeremy" she smiled at him
"Hey" he greeted her and let her in.
"Are you ok?" she asked frowning at his abrupt attitude
"Apart from having my mind erased I'm peachy, you knew what happened on that night as well and yet you didn't tell me"
Iris shut the door behind her and held up her hands in a surrender position "Whoa, it was between you and Elena and frankly it wasn't any of my business" he scoffed and stormed off towards the kitchen, Iris frowned and raced after him
"Jeremy" she grabbed his arm but he shook her off
"No" he snapped "I thought you understood what I was going through, and you let Elena do that to me-"
"Hey" she placed her hand on her hips "Your memory was wiped before I even knew about it, and I do understand, Elena thought it was best she didn't want to expose you in that kind of world, it's dangerous"
Jeremy stared at her for a moment and frowned "Whatever" he muttered and walked away.
Iris sighed and headed upstairs walking into Elena's bedroom.
"Iris, I thought you came in a while ago" Elena said curling her hair she was sitting at her vanity
"I did" Iris said dropping down on to the bed "had a run in with Jeremy, he's not too happy" she saw Elena frowning and sighed "he'll come round Elena, he is family after all"
Elena gave her a thankful smile and jumped up off of her seat "Should I show you my dress?"
Iris nodded and sat up excited, she waited as Elena went into her closet she returned a moment later with two heavy looking garment bags
"This one is mine" she held it up and unzipped it, revealing a beautiful cream coloured pastel pinkish dress
"Wow it's beautiful" she said standing up and lightly ran her fingers over the material "It's going to be a nightmare getting in" she said seeing the laces on the back
"I know, good luck with yours" Elena then grabbed the other garment bag and waited with baited breath as Elena unzipped it. She felt a rush of gratitude and excitement when she saw an emerald green coloured dress
"Elena, oh- it's beautiful" she muttered and lightly ran her slim digits down the dress where it was a cream coloured, the dress was gorgeous she never owned something this extravagant before, not even her dress for the Yule ball was this great.
"Thank you Elena" Iris smiled and surprised the brunette by hugging her, it took a moment for Elena to respond but she returned the hug,
Iris pulled back, Elena was surprised when she saw the raven head hastily wiping away a few tears
"Whoa, Iris no need to cry" Elena said placing her hands on the smaller girl's shoulders
"Sorry" Iris chuckled "It's just no one has ever done something this nice for me"
Elena frowned at that thinking who were Iris's friends beforehand and was she even mistreated by them.
"Thank you" Iris smiled wildly turning back to the dress
"You're welcome" Elena replied sincerely, Iris nodded and plucked up the dress
"So-"
"We're going to need to do your hair first" Elena lightly shoved her towards the vanity.
"Oh Merlin" Iris groaned clutching her stomach; she was roaming around the square having lost Elena since the brunette had wondered off to find her boyfriend.
"Looking good Iris" Stefan smiled appearing in front of her, he frowned seeing her flushed face "Are you ok?"
"How the hell did women wear these dresses before" she said, Stefan chuckled and offered her his arm
"No clue" he answered they walked closer to the floats she saw that people were getting ready to set off.
"Wow flower you do scrub up well" a cocky voice said from behind her, she turned and saw Damon
"I see you didn't dress up for the occasion" she drawled just then Elena emerged and greeted Stefan, Iris noted the way Damon's eyes seem to linger on Elena
"She isn't Katherine you know" Iris murmured low enough for both vampires to hear. Damon glared at her but she simply shrugged
"I know" he whispered into her ear
"Well that's good" she smiled at him "go find someone else Damon, someone who is definitely worth your attention"
Damon looked at her, he felt warmed knowing that there was someone here who no matter what his done still cared for him, and it was surprising to him that it turned out to be Iris since he had used her on more than one occasion.
"So, my pretty little flower" he wrapped an arm around her shoulders
"Ergh I hate that nick name, and I definitely not little"
"To me you're are" he smirked and raised his hand to ruffle her hair but she ducked out of the way
"No way Damon" Elena scolded "you know how long it took me to do her hair?"
"Not really" he said and reached out tugging her back towards him, and pinched her side making her laugh
"A hell of a long time" Elena countered
"Too true" Iris muttered, Stefan shook his head amused at the display wondering how Damon at times could be completely tender and gentle with Iris, but then switches to being a complete bastard at other times.
Iris saw Stefan leading Elena away, Damon saw her confused look and decided to enlighten her
"Wanna know what's going on?" he said walking her slowly towards the float, Caroline had caught her beforehand and told her that they were short one person thus stated that Iris would be stepping in
"Always" she quirked an eyebrow
"Well I found out whose Elena's biological father is" he said, Iris looked at him, they were getting small shoves from the crowd as they were walking up towards the floats.
"Who?"
"Turns out to be dear Uncle John" he revealed, Iris eyes widened not expecting that all
"You mean creepy Uncle John"
Damon nodded and chuckled "glad to think I'm not the only one who thinks he's a bit of a creep"
"Well he is" she muttered and tucked in a stray curl
"That's an understatement" he murmured
"Iris" Stefan called "Come on, the parade's going to start"
"Good luck flower and try not to fall" Damon smirked and disappeared into the crowd.
Iris saw the float and hitched her skirts up, she accidently stepped on the fabric of her dress and tumbled forward before her face could hit the floor Stefan grabbed her
"You ok?" she could tell that he was keeping in his laughter
"Yep, Damon's just jinx me" her cheeks were flaming red seeing that other people on the float were sending her an amused glance,
"Come on" Stefan grabbed her and led over to where Elena was standing, the raven head was on the other side of the vampire
"So what do we do?" she asked having never done anything like this before
"We just smile and wave" Elena informed her, she demonstrated to her and Iris nodded.
She plastered a smile on to her face and waved
"Whoa, whoa not like that" Stefan laughed nearly getting hit in the face by Iris's haphazardly waving "You're going to take someone's eye out the way you're going"
Iris rolled her eyes and waved again, this time much more gently and composed.
The float started too moved and about half an hour into it, her cheeks were aching, she spotted Damon in the crowd and saw him mocking her wave, she rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him childishly which to her surprise he returned.
"Thank Merlin" Iris muttered when she was finally allowed to get change, she grabbed her clothes from her car and hurried into the grill and after a few minutes of fumbling with the laces she had stripped out of the dress, she pulled on a pair of jeans and a random t-shirt.
Iris entered the grill and frowned when she saw that Stefan was looking panicked as well as Damon, she noticed that the younger Salvatore boy had dragged Elena out; Damon spotted her and made a bee line towards her
"What's going-hey" she cried out when he grabbed her arm and dragged her not too gently out of the grill he stopped when they finally arrived at her car
"Damon what's going on?" she felt fear shoot through her when she saw the usually cocky arrogant vampire looking worried
He tightly gripped on to her shoulders she felt the wind causing her curls to be blown to be forward, his gripped momentarily tightened she winced in pain
"Damon, what's going on?" she asked her voice slightly shaking
"Iris, you need to go home now" he ordered, gone was the playful way he usually spoke to her, now he was completely serious
"What? Why-"
"The tomb vampires are running free, you need to leave they'll drain you dry once they got your scent"
Iris eyes widened "I can't leave you what about-"
"Go, we can look after ourselves now go" he said pushing her towards "I'll call you later"
Iris was about to argue but she saw the look on his face and knew that he would literally shove her into the car if she didn't move.
Iris pecked him on the cheek "Look after yourself, don't do anything stupid" she whispered and then climbed into the car.
Damon watched as she drove away lightly touching his skin where Iris's full lips had met it, it tingled slightly. He took a deep breath and ran further into the square.
Iris entered her house and locked the door firmly behind, she knew that vampires would needed to an invite to come, but she would rather be safe than sorry.
Iris kicked off her shoes and grabbed the heavy garment bag that held her dress; she switched the light on and placed the garment bag into the back of her closet. Iris sighed and bit her lip, she was worried for Damon and the others, and she knew that this had John Gilbert written all over it something big was going to happen tonight.
She groaned and flopped down on the bed contemplating on just going back to the square but knew if she did both Stefan and Damon would be on her ass.
She paced up and down her room she was never one to sit back and wait on the side-lines, more like jump into the fray.
"Screw it" she muttered and grabbed her jacket and her keys and drove back, she would rather risk the wrath of Damon then not knowing what was happening.
Iris arrived and saw people running around and fireworks going off, Iris ran through the crowd and stood on her tip toes, she spotted bug burly men heading in one direction carrying Anna and Damon, who looked like they were writhing in pain.
"They're rounding up the vampires" she gasped now knowing John Gilbert had definitely something to do with this, since Damon had told her that he had a certain device that could get rid of the town's vampires.
She pushed through the crowd and felt someone grabbing her arm
"Let go" she attempted to pull her arm away and was ready to punch whoever it was since she thought it was either a vampire or a council member.
"Iris, it's me" she turned and saw Alaric
"I'm not going home Ric, they got Damon" she argued, Alaric nodded knowing that she was loyal to her friends "and possibly Stefan"
"No Stefan's fine" Alaric shook his head "they're taking them to the Gilbert's old place"
Iris nodded "Why is this happening? Damon mentioned the device-"
"And Bonnie was supposed to un-spell it" Alaric revealed,
"But she probably didn't" Iris muttered realisation hit her, she knew that the witch had a hatred towards the vampires, since she saw then responsible for her grandmother's death
"Oh they're going to kill them all" Iris said looking up at Alaric, "I'm going in there Ric"
Before he could say anything she tore her arm away from his grip and ran towards the Gilbert's old place ignoring his shouts for her to stop.
AN: Thanks for the reviews so far, can't believe its over 100, never thought that would happen...anyway Iris has gone back ignoring Damon's order of staying home...should be get exciting since these are the last couple of chapters of season 1...so season 2 based chapters are going to be happening soon.
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