Iris groaned and rolled over hearing her alarm go off, she slammed her hand downs stopping the shrilling sound. She sat up bleary eye and used the heel of her hands to rub the sleepiness away. Iris sighed quietly it was weird now, she'd just got use to not living alone and now here she was once again living on her own. Iris frowned hearing her cell ringing she reached over to the nightstand and didn't bother checking the caller ID.
"Hello?" she grunted
"Wow, Elena was right you aren't a morning person"
"What's up Stef?" she asked swinging her legs out of the bed.
"I was wondering whether or not you wanted to come over for breakfast?"
"Eh, I don't know-"
She slowly made her way out into the hall and lightly pushed the door to the room Elijah was staying in
"Iris-"
"Not really in the mood Stef" she answered softly closing the door behind her, Stefan frowned knowing that the raven head was feeling low
"Damon's making chocolate chip pancakes" he offered
"Well why didn't you say? I'm starving" Iris exclaimed a slight smile coming on to her face, she could hear him chortling
"Great, see you in half an hour"
Iris bid him goodbye, she needed to move on from Elijah for the time being since she didn't want him to take her nor Elena away from her friends, friends that she cared for. Iris hurried to her bathroom and quickly stripped out of her clothes and turned the shower faucet on, she could see the steam rising, Iris stepped into the shower and relaxed her sore muscles under the spray of hot water.
Iris pitched her head so that her forehead was resting against the cool tiles, after a few minutes of just letting the water wash over, Iris began the process of cleaning herself. Once she was done she blindly reached out for a towel and dried herself off. As Iris exited the bathroom she glanced at the time and saw that she had spent about twenty minutes in the bathroom. She hurriedly slipped on her underwear and rummaged through her closet and decided to wear a pair of dark denim jeans and a grey long sleeve top with a printed design on the front, Iris slipped on a pair of ankle socks and pulled on her grey converses. She brushed her thick raven curls and pulled it into a fish tail braid. Iris grabbed her school bag and her jacket. She locked the door behind her and made her way to her rusty ford.
Iris pulled up to the boarding house, she exited the car and stood for a moment just staring at the boarding house, it made her nauseas thinking that in a dusty basement Elijah was there dead. She sighed and headed inside
"Iris" Damon greeted her smiling as he did so
"Hey Damon" she smiled, he could tell that she was still a bit off he didn't blame her
"So breakfast?" he offered her his arm
"Mister Salvatore, being a gentleman all of a sudden?" she asked with a teasing smile on his face
"I can be, so on we go milady" he asked a smile on his lips.
"Wow you go all out don't you" Iris uttered seeing the vast assortment of breakfast food.
"Only for my favourite girl" he smirked, they both sat down
"To be honest I was just expecting pancakes, I don't know where to start" Iris looked wide eye
"Well-"
"Holy crap is that pecan waffles?" she asked without waiting for an answer she grabbed a bunch of them and loaded it on to her plate much to Damon's amusement
"Iris" Stefan grinned seeing the raven head he strolled over and much to her annoyance took a large bite out of her food
"Do I have a sign written on my forehead, saying 'take my food'?" she asked rhetorically
"Sorry, flower but it's fun-"
"To rile you up" Stefan finished off earning a pout from the raven head
"Everyone says that" she muttered under her breath,
"So are you going to school?" Stefan asked as she ate her food, Iris swallowed down some of the waffles
"Yes-"
"Iris stay here, have the day off you went-"
"No, Damon I'm going to school, my assignment for Ric is due-"
Damon scoffed "I'm sure he'll let you off, just stay we can-"
"No I'm going" she snapped much to the pair of vampires surprise, her irritation deflated when she saw their faces "sorry, I just can't be in the same house as him"
Neither Damon nor Stefan need to ask who the 'him' she was referring to
"Iris don't take this the wrong way but why are you so attached to Elijah?" Stefan asked dropping down into the empty seat beside Iris
"You said he knew everything about you" Damon recalled from last night, Iris sighed she knew this was coming, "does that mean he knew you was a witch?"
"Yes" she muttered "I suppose you want to know why I came to England in the first place don't you? I- there was a powerful dark sorcerer who was taking over in England he was starting a war an uprising against those who didn't possess the gift of magic" she looked up and saw that she had both vampires full attention
"There was several witches and wizards" she glared slightly at Damon when he scoffed "fine warlocks, but unlike Bonnie's magic, we were known as wand carriers, since we channelled our magic through it" Stefan nodded he had about that kind of magic in the past "well there was several who went against the sorcerer not believing in spilling innocent people's blood, my parents were in that group" she smiled wryly
"Those were the dark times in the magical community, people were killed, others fled, families were destroyed, everything, hope, peace were lost, until there was a prophecy made, of some infant who would be marked as the evil sorcerer's equal so he sought to destroy that baby-"
"He was scared of a baby? What a jackass" Damon shook his head
"The baby was it you?" Stefan asked
She sighed and nodded "I- he went after us, my parents went into hiding I was 18 months old" she looked down, Stefan wrapped an arm around her and tugged her towards his side
"You don't need to tell us anymore Iris"
Damon reached out and lightly stroked her back soothing her
"No I need to, it's the only way I can move on" she murmured "my parents put a powerful charm on the house, they appointed a secret keeper so even if he came right up to our window he wouldn't see us, but they were betrayed he found us" she took a deep breath "he killed my father first, my mother needn't had died, she was trying to protect me he told her to stand aside, she didn't listen-"
"We can see where your stubbornness comes from" Damon smiled softly at her
"He killed her, and then he went after me" Iris licked her lips and pushed her half eaten breakfast away "I was supposed to die but I didn't- he, he fired the killing curse at me-but it rebounded-"
"How?" Stefan asked baffled, realising that Iris was far special that they all thought
"My mother, her sacrifice he was evil, she did something so good it's hard to destroy something that's been marked by so good"
Damon looked at her carefully, whoever Iris's mother was she was a remarkable woman, he thought.
"I was famous after that. I was- they thought that I-"
"That you destroyed someone so evil" Stefan intervened seeing that she was struggling with words
"I was famous" she spat "for, for something they thought was heroic, they seemed to have forgotten that I was made an orphan that a family was destroyed people's worlds were ripped apart" she furiously wiped her tears away
Damon grabbed her and pulled her into his lap, he rubbed her back up and down Stefan reached out and grabbed her hand giving it a reassuring squeeze
"Iris what happened next?" Damon asked quietly
"I was sent away" she chocked out a sob and burrowed her face into the vampire's chest "to my aunt and uncle, my mother was my aunt's sister, she was jealous of her because she was able to do magic, I spent eleven miserable years there" she sighed and laid her head against his chest looking at Stefan
"But then I got a letter, to Hogwarts a magical school, I was free from my relatives, I made friends and even had a boyfriend when I was fifteen, but that evil sorcerer Tom, he was still around, he-he wanted to come back into power and tried several times over the years, it wasn't until I was fourteen it happened, there was a tournament where witches and wizards from different schools competed against one another, it was for students who were over the aged of sixteen" she paused
Stefan handed her a glass of water "my name was put in, I was the youngest my friends thought I did it for attention that I wanted the glory, I was forced to compete, I was scared, I didn't want to risk my life for a game, funny thing was I was up against my boyfriend, safe to say we broke up, anyway it was a trap, Tom had followers they were known as Deatheaters, they wanted their master back. And I was a key-"
"You seem to be a key to a lot of things" Damon uttered, causing Iris to chuckle he was still holding her "So what happened next?"
"This isn't the first time I've been part of a ritual thing, my mother bloods run through my veins, it had a protection, an ancient one, they used my blood to bring him back, and the he rose again" there was a moment of silence "he was meant to kill me but I escaped, I told the others, my friends the teachers he was back, my headmaster knew I was telling the truth so did my godfather-"
"You had a godfather? Why didn't he take you in?" Damon asked angered that the man didn't since he knew Iris's life with her relatives was a horrible one
"He was framed for killing thirteen civilians, they also thought he was my parents secret keeper but he traded places with another of my parent's friend Peter Pettigrew, they didn't give him a trial and he was locked away, he escaped when I was thirteen and came after Pettigrew which so happened to be disguised as a rat" seeing the questioning looks a small smile came across Iris's face "it's magic, anything can happen, but Pettigrew escaped before he could be taken so there was no evidence that my godfather was innocent I helped him escape"
"So he came back Tom, people didn't want to believe since he was one of the most feared man at the time, I was made out to be a lunatic people shunned me" Stefan frowned at this, no wonder why Iris was closed off. "the killings started again, they thought it was my godfather but it wasn't, I started to have headaches, this scar" she shifted in Damon's hold as he pushed back her bangs to reveal the lightning bolt scar-"
"-It was a reminder of what happened the night my parents were murdered, this scar linked me to Tom, I had visions of him, of him torturing people, I could feel when he was angry or happy. He found out about the connection and tricked me, made me believe he had taken my godfather prisoner, I led my friends into an ambush" Damon could feel her shaking and tightened his hold on her, "He, it was just a trap, and I was stupid enough to fall for it" she muttered, Damon ran his fingers through her hair and Stefan sighed it was all starting to make sense, her closed off attitude, her whole demeanor
"My godfather was murdered by his cousin, I was so angry so angry, Remus, he was another one of my parents close friends, lost another person he cared about. I-the one who killed my godfather, you know what she did? When I confronted her about Sirius? My godfather?"
Damon shook his head as Stefan pulled himself closer to the pair
"She laughed" tears had rolled down her flushed cheeks, "she stood there and laugh, Sirius he was the first real person who saw me for me, not just a name but as a person, and he was murdered. I wanted to torture her, make her feel my pain but I- my heart wasn't-"
"Isn't that dark and cold" Stefan cut her off, "You've got a big heart Iris, so genuine so pure"
She nodded and wiped away a tear
"He came Tom, he possessed me ripped into my soul he wanted my mentor the only man he ever fear kill me, but I pushed him out, he couldn't stand being me"
She took a deep breath "I was told about the prophecy that was made, turns out I was the only one who could end him, neither of us could live while the other survived, it was a year later that I found out what I really used for, you see after my mentor was killed I had to go on the run-"
"On your own?"
"I should have but my friends came with me, we spent the year looking for magical objects, Tom wanted to remain immortal-"
"Why not become a vampire then?"
"He wanted his magic, he used a dark spell, he split his soul and placed them in those magical objects, throughout the year, me and my friends destroyed them one, by one, we had to go back to Hogwarts as some of the objects were there" she paused again, Damon and Stefan knew that this was taking a toll on Iris "that's where the final battle took place, the light side against the dark, Tom led the dark whilst I led the light"
Stefan and Damon both frown this was too much for a teenager to bare
"I found out what my role was, when Tom came to my home all those years ago, he was destroyed his soul split, and one part of it attached itself to me, since I was the only living being there. Everything that held his soul needed to be destroyed and I had a piece of that"
"What?" Stefan asked his brows furrowing
"I needed to die, and I needed to let him kill me, so then someone else can finish him off"
"You were raised like a lamb to the slaughter" Damon spat "that-"
"I wanted to protect them, people cared for me, or at least I thought they did" she whispered the last part "he killed me, I was dead, but then I found out that it was all part of some grand plan, I was meant to let him kill me-"
"That's a brave thing to do Iris"
"I…I was sent back to end it, and I did I killed him-"her eyes watered "I was coerced into killing someone, Tom, he was like me you know, never wanted in the end, everyone was happy, but-but then they became scared of me, thinking that I was going to become like him"
Damon frowned Iris couldn't become that cruel she was too innocent and kind "they put me on a pedestal and they ripped me down, I- my magic wasn't working for me, they took my wand away saying I was too dangerous, they snapped it, my so called friends wanted nothing to do with me, I wasn't right, I wasn't meant to come back and so I ran here"
Damon, Stefan and Iris sat in silence; the only sound was Iris's shaky breath "sometimes I wish I didn't come back"
Damon tightly gripped her chin forcing her to look up at him "Never say that again" he growled out "you are far too good for those people, Iris"
"He's right Iris" Stefan said seriously
It was beginning to make sense; Damon now understood why Iris had those short display of magic she had no longer any control over it.
"Thank you" Iris said sincerely she was feeling much better more at ease, but with Elijah she needn't had said anything yet he knew. "Can you not tell the others? I don't want them to start acting weird with me"
"It's a secret between us" Stefan assured her. She smiled and nodded and felt Damon's grip on her loosen, she slid off his lap and glanced at the time
"I should get going, Ric's going to be pissed if I'm late" she muttered fishing in her pocket for her keys "see you" she headed out and was at the front door
"Iris" Damon appeared in front of her
"Yes?"
"Katherine's out of the tomb"
Her eyes widened "What?"
"By killing Elijah, his compulsion broke so she's free"
"Wonderful" she drawled "the bitch is back"
"Hmm, now that's not nice" she turned around and found Katherine leaning against the doorway
"Is there any other way to treat you?" Iris cocked an eyebrow
Katherine smirked "I like your fire; anyway I'm here to help"
Iris looked over to Damon who rolled his eyes and shrugged "right, well…erm lovely to see you-I'm lying by the way"
Damon snorted at that, Iris there was never a dull moment with her around
"Don't you have school to go to" Katherine sneered. Iris rolled her eyes and left
"Iris if you could stay behind" Alaric called as the bell rang, Elena sent her a small smile, as did Bonnie and Caroline which she returned
She piled up her books and approached his desk "Is there something wrong Ric?"
He sighed and looked up at her from his desk "I just wanted to check up on you after last night, how are you?"
She smiled at him feeling slightly warmed at him caring "I'm ok"
"You know we had-"
"Yeah, but it feels wrong" Iris uttered looking down
"Iris-"
"It's fine" Iris shook her head.
It was now lunch time and Iris idly played with her food
"Iris you coming?" she looked up startled
"Huh?" Caroline giggled
"You totally checked out of the conversation didn't you?"
Iris smiled sheepishly "Yeah sort of, so what are was talking about?"
"How about we're all meeting at Elena's later tonight, you up for it?" Bonnie asked
"Well-"
"Of course she is" Elena cut her off "Iris is coming, we'll make a night of it" she didn't want Iris to go back to an empty house
"I guess that settles it then" Iris drawled.
"Brilliant" Caroline squealed "I'm so excited"
"We can tell" Iris chuckled seeing that the blond was literally jumping up and down in her seat.
"So Iris Stefan told me that Damon told you that Katherine is out of the tomb" Elena commented, Iris sipped her drink
"Yep, we met earlier in the boarding house"
"Ah did she-"
"Says she wants to help" Iris finished off her drink, Bonnie snorted at that causing the girls to grin
"I know, Katherine wanting to help?"
"She's the best chance we got" Elena shrugged her shoulders, Iris frowned slightly thinking that Elijah would've been the ideal person since he actually knew who Klaus was, and he was definitely much more powerful than either Damon, Stefan or Katherine. But she decided to keep her mouth firmly shut not wanting to cause a disagreement
"Elijah did mention something about a witches burial ground or something?" Iris commented, Elena nodded
"Yeah, Damon and Stefan are checking that out, by going through the old Gilbert journals there should be something in them"
"Hmm" Iris hummed and picked out the strawberries in her fruit cup.
Iris arrived home and dumped her bag on the couch, she sighed and stretched her arms above her head was set to close her front door but couldn't
"Iris" she jumped and saw Caroline at the door
"Merlin Care give me a heart attack" Iris muttered, she cocked an eyebrow when the blond didn't come into her house "what?"
"Seriously? You have a memory of a goldfish, we're supposed to be at Elena's"
"Oh damn, yeah I forgot" she grabbed her keys. "Do you think that-"
"No, time we're making Sundaes-"
"The ice cream?" Iris questioned locking the door behind her
"Is there any other type of Sundaes?"
"The day?" Iris answered cheekily, she managed to avoid the swat Caroline was trying to deliver, "I'm so going take all the cool toppings" the raven head called and ran down the gravel driveway, the vampire jogged after her
"Iris watch out-" but the petite teen didn't heed her warning and stumbled over a rock and landed in the bushes. Iris groaned and sat up
"Oww" she whined seeing the graze on her knees, she looked up when she felt a shadow over her and saw Caroline. She rolled her eyes seeing her expression "just let it out" and without further ado Caroline burst out laughing
Iris grumbled under her breath and got up on her own, they both walked, well Iris limped slightly to the Gilberts, the raven head sent an annoyed look at the vampire she kept bursting into small bouts of giggles
"Care really-"
"Yes, it was funny" Iris rolled her eyes and raised her fist and knocked on the door, a second later it was opened revealing Bonnie and Elena,
"Why do you have twigs in your hair?" Bonnie asked Iris who sighed and stepped past her "Long story" she muttered "Is Jenna around? Since she was the one who fixed me up before"
Iris headed in to the kitchen and saw the older woman leaning against the counter
"Hey-what happened?" Jenna asked taking in Iris's state, she hopped up on the stool and pulled up her jeans,
"Huh I swore I had a graze"
"Well you jean is ripped" Jenna walked forward "hmm you probably just torn it-is that a leaf?" she then plucked said leaf out of her raven curls
"So what happened?" Bonnie asked
"Long story-"
"Not really" Caroline laughed again "Iris fell in to the bushes"
With that the other females promptly laughed hard at that
"Serious?" Bonnie choked out
"Yes, ok, it was Caroline's fault" Iris pouted and folded her arms across her chest
"Hey, how was it my fault?" Caroline asked affronted
"She got me excited about Sundaes" the raven head muttered, causing a moment of silence then another bout of raucous laughter
"You guys sound like a bunch of hyenas" Iris grumbled
"Aw, don't pout" Jenna chuckled "I know what'll cheer you up" she headed over to her fridge and pulled out a tub of ice cream "here ya go"
Iris leant back "why does everyone think they can bribe me with food, first Stef, then Damon and now you?"
"You can have it all?" Elena added
"Aw crap you guys know me too well" Iris took the ice cream and dug in, with a spoon.
"So what are we up to tonight?" Bonnie asked and took a spoonful of Iris's ice cream
"Hmm we're deciding on pizza, but we don't know what film yet" Elena answered
"How about the notebook"
"Oh merlin no" Iris shook her head, the other girls were amused to see she had ice cream on her cheek "I hate soppy romance films, let's watch die hard 3, that's one of my favourites. What?" she asked seeing the women's looks
"You should go hang out with Jeremy" Jenna muttered shaking her head.
"Fine we'll watch a soppy romance film"
"So how are you doing Jenna?" Elena asked looking at the other woman. Iris vaguely recalled being told about her fight with Alaric on the night of the dinner party
"So I guess you know then about mine and Ric's fight?" Jenna asked
"Yeah, he feels and looks terrible Jenna" Iris added on
"Look's terrible?" Bonnie questioned
"Yeah his scruff" she patted her cheeks "Is getting out of control"
"Don't you like a guy with stubble?" Caroline asked, Iris shrugged her shoulders
"Depends if it suites him"
"Ok, anyway-"
"Is this some ambush to cheer me up?" Jenna asked
"Have I been coerced into another plan without-"Caroline slapped her hand over Iris's mouth
"You talk too much" Caroline mumbled, seeing Iris's exasperated look she released her hold on Iris
"No, it's just a girly night in, doing girly things, including watching a girly movie, but if you want to talk about something then we're here" Elena told Jenna
"So that definitely rules out watching die hard then?" Iris asked swirling her spoon in the melting ice cream.
"You know the whole Isobel thing, makes me think he's hiding something else" Jenna revealed as she pulled up chair towards Iris and took a spoonful of ice cream.
"Hmm, maybe he just doesn't want to hurt you?" Iris offered feeling disappointed that neither Elena, nor Ric had told Jenna anything.
"Maybe he thinks he's protecting you?" Elena said
Jenna shook her head "Yeah well that's not his call to make" she swallowed a mouthful of ice cream "I deserve the truth, everybody does"
Iris looked at Jenna carefully
"Sometimes it's harder than that" Caroline commented, Iris got the feeling that the blond wasn't talking about Alaric anymore
"She's right though, what's to say what happens after you find out the truth, he's scared that you'll reject him or don't want anything to do with him" Jenna looked up and met Iris's stunning emerald orbs, she thought she saw something there but the raven head looked away.
"Everyone deserves the truth, if you care about the person you should know the truth" Jenna said, a moment of silence descended on the group
"You know what we need?" Elena jumped up "we need, music dancing and alcohol"
Caroline grinned and nodded "there's a live band playing at the grill"
"I'm in" Elena nodded
"Me too" Jenna said they all looked expectedly at Iris
"But I thought we're-FINE LET'S GO" Iris shouted jumping off of the stool
Iris entered the grill with the others and saw that the place was packed
"Iris, come and help me get the drinks" Jenna shouted over the music and grabbed the small rave head's arm so she wouldn't lose her in the crowd.
They were at the bar
"Can I have four beers and lemonade-"
"What?"
"Iris really?" Jenna cocked an eyebrow
"Ok fair enough" Iris nodded knowing she wasn't a drinker
"Jenna, Iris" Ric greeted them as the barman handed there drinks over
"Ric hi, I'll leave you two to it" she handed a beer over to Jenna ignoring the glare the older woman and sent a wink to Alaric. She pushed her way through the crowd and saw Caroline, Bonnie and Elena sitting down,
"Hey" she grinned handing them their bottles
"Lemonade?" Elena asked seeing Iris's drink
"Your aunt, and I don't blame her" Iris sipped her drink and saw Matt walking past them,
"Hey Matt" Caroline called but simply ignored her
"Well that was awkward" Iris commented
"Hmm, I thought that you said the ball was in your court" Bonne said sipping her beer
"I thought you liked him?" the raven head asked, leaning forward in her seat
"Yeah but I can't do anything about it" Caroline sighed, Iris cocked an eyebrow
"Now that isn't the Caroline I know, you would've gone for it"
"Yeah" Caroline nodded "but I'm still keeping so many secrets from him"
"Alaric's in the same boat with Jenna maybe that's our mistake" Elena said "We're trying to protect the people we love by keeping them out of it but in the end we're hurting them anyway"
"And what by offering to sacrifice yourself you won't be hurting them?" Iris asked,
"Iris-"Elena glared at her "We're doing this-"
"At least try to fight" Iris cut her off
"You don't understand I'm not willing to let anyone getting hurt, and if you care for them you'd do the same" Elena snapped
Iris's eyes narrowed, the other two girls watched on
"I do care for them that's why I'm willing to go along with this" Iris swallowed the last of her drink "I'm going to get another drink" she muttered and walked off
"Iris" Bonnie called
Elena sighed and rubbed her temples "I can't believe she's being like this, I thought she accepted what's going too happened"
"She doesn't want to be used for a sacrifice Elena, but she'll do it anyway, for people she only known for a couple of months, what does that tell you about her?" Bonnie said "she's a good person"
"I know" Elena muttered.
Iris settled herself at the bar, she was facing the stage and ordered another drink, sure she'd went along with it the whole sacrifice thing like Elena she was willing to go through with it for them but now again she was having doubts but then it went out of her mind because they had Elijah. She sighed and took a sip of her lemonade. And decided to push all of this out of mind, tonight was supposed to a night of enjoyment.
Her eyes widened when she saw Caroline on stage
"I had no clue she could sing like that" Jenna said from beside Iris,
"Me neither" she spotted Caroline eyeing Matt who was at the other end of the bar. She hopped off of the stool and tapped Matt on the shoulder
"Duh, she likes you so what are you waiting for?" Iris asked
"I've got no clue, thanks Iris" Matt smiled, she watched as he jumped up on stage and pulled the blond into a searing kiss, the crowd clapped Iris whistled loudly
Iris turned around when she heard her name being called she was in the middle of the crowd and saw Elena running into the bathroom, Iris gasped as all the lights exploded shards of glass rained down, she used her arms to protect her face, Iris pushed through towards the bar and saw Alaric rushing Jenna out, she looked around and saw Bonnie looking panic she realised that the witch was talking to doctor Martin.
"Crap" she shouted as the fire flew across the bar top. People were beginning to panic and all ran out. "Bonnie" Iris shouted seeing the doctor placing his hand on the witch's head and made her go unconscious, the raven head tried to push her way through but there was too many people. Iris was pushed forward with too much force causing her to go crashing down to the ground
"Son of a bitch" Iris yelped as someone literally trampled over her and emitted another yelp of pain when she felt someone stomp on her ankle.
"Dr martin" Iris looked up and saw Elena and Stefan on the other side of the bar "Look I'm sorry about what happened to Luka, I never wanted that to happen but at least let us help you get your daughter back" Elena cried.
Iris groaned and pulled herself up into a sitting position, Stefan eyes widened and immediately located the small raven head he would have to get her out of here, but first he needed to make sure that Elena got out.
"Only Elijah can do that" Dr Martin replied
"You don't need Elijah" Elena yelled, Iris begged to differ they definitely needed Elijah she thought. Just then the fire spread more, Iris saw Stefan grabbing Elena and was gone, just then Caroline tackled Doctor Martin to the floor
Iris managed to get on to her knees as Caroline went to dove forwards to sink her fangs into the doctors neck, but instead screamed
"CAROLINE" Iris shouted and used her strength to get up, she hissed in pain when she put her full weight on her sprained ankle but at the moment she didn't care, Iris rushed forward
"Stop It" she shouted at the doctor as Caroline fell to her knees, the blond started sobbing
"You, you know where Elijah is" the doctor snapped "Iris Potter" she saw his eyes dart to her scar and went to move forward to grab her
"Hey" Matt shouted distracted him.
Iris dropped down beside Caroline who was still screaming
"Caroline" she grabbed her shoulders "what's wrong? He-"
"-did something" the vampire managed to choke out, Iris realised it was magic and quickly grabbed Caroline's cheeks, she recalled Elijah saying that she was the essence of magic, hence she could detect it or something,
"Caroline" Iris called her eyes glowing golden she could literally feel the magic and let it shoot through her arms, Caroline gasped feeling the pain fade away, she looked up and saw Iris blinking rapidly
"What the-" but she couldn't contemplate it further, the both heard a cry of pain
"Matt" Caroline said and shot forwards, before Iris could blink she felt an arm wrap around her waist and she was outside.
"Stefan" Iris blinked and shook her head. He set her on her feet and frowned when she hissed
"What-"
"What's wrong?" Damon asked
"Hurt yourself?" she saw the smirk on the brunette's face and knew it was Katherine dressed in Elena's close
"Bitch" Iris muttered they were at the side of the alley "where's Elena?"
"She's safe, now what happened?" Damon demanded
"Someone stepped on my ankle happy?" she snapped, Stefan sighed and bit into his wrist and offered it to Iris who was too tired to even argue and much to her displeasure swallowed it down. It didn't felt as good as Elijah's blood, she mildly thought.
"We've got to go" and in a flash both Stefan and Katherine was gone. Damon placed his arm around Iris's shoulder
"Come on I'll drop you off at home" Damon said knowing that it was likely Iris wouldn't have a ride home
"Thanks, so what's going on?" she asked as they walked to his car.
"Katherine came up with an ingenious plan-" both of them snorted at that "no seriously she agreed to swap places with Elena so when Doctor does show up again to talk to her, he would think it's her and she'll kill him" Iris stopped walking hearing that
"What? You can't just kill him" Iris snapped, Damon's jaw clenched and grabbed her wrist tugging her towards the car
"Yes we can, and if we don't he'll go after you if he gets Elena" he lightly shoved her into the car much to her annoyance "which is why you're going to stay home and not go out, ok?" he asked, she sighed in defeat
"Fine" she reluctantly agreed.
Iris arrived at home and decided to have a nice relaxing bath, she tore off her jacket and kicked off her shoes, she then headed upstairs and pulled the band that was tying her hair, she quickly set up the bath and when felt that the water was warm enough she slipped in.
Iris let out a loud sigh when the warm water washed over, she leant her head back and closed her eyes, thinking about the day, Dr Martin's son was dead, and all he wanted now was his daughter which she had found out had been taken by Klaus, no doubt to actually carry out the ritual. She could tell that he was coming soon, they needed to wake Elijah up, Iris thought as he was the only one who actually knew who this Klaus was and what he looked like. Iris groaned and sunk further in to the water and closed her eyes in relaxation.
Iris jumped and opened her eyes
"Niklaus what are you doing here? Get out" she shrieked, and pulled her knees to her chest
"Come on my love-"
"I'm naked, GET OUT" she was blushing, and saw the smirk on the blond male's face she used her arm to cover her breast
"I'm well aware that you're naked, in fact I come to join you" Iris eyes widened as he started to strip,
"You're not funny now get out" Iris slapped her other hand over her eyes seeing his was pulling off his breeches,
"Who said I was joking?" he countered and moved forward towards the tub, she felt his hand ghost over her bare shoulder
"Stop Niklaus" she breathed feeling him over her
"Do you want me to?" she kept quiet, he chuckled already knowing her answer, with that he lightly pushed her forward and sat behind her, she felt a shudder go down her spine when she felt his lips on her shoulder, his hands ghosted over her ribs "relax, my love I don't bite"
She chuckled at that he pulled her back so that she was resting against his chest, the water slosh around them
"You can be quiet a beast Niklaus" she murmured looking up at him through her thick lashes, he smirked and raised his hands so that the tips of his fingers grazed her cheek
"Not with you though" he stroked her neck and dipped down till his lips were mere millimetres away from hers "never with you" he reiterated and with that his lips came crashing down on to hers.
Iris gasped shooting awake, she looked around wide eye recalling bits of that dream, she shook her head and quickly climbed out of the tub feeling that the water was cold. She reached out and grabbed hold of her towel and dried herself off.
Iris wrapped it around her body and leant against the counter and looked in the mirror, that dream felt so real, Iris touched her cheek feeling the ghost of fingertips on her skin, she pushed that to the back of her mind and padded barefooted into her bedroom, and rummaged through her dresser pulling out a pair of lace cream coloured panties and a matching bar. She looked through her closet and slipped on a pair of loose flannel shorts and a thin camisole.
Iris glanced at the time and saw that it was hitting eight nearly time sure went fast, she thought. Her stomach grumbled loudly not bothered to cook Iris opted to have pizza she stuck it in the oven and plopped down on the couch, she turned the telly on and ended up dozing off on the couch with the television blaring loudly.
AN: Thanks for the reviews, and a big massive thank you to bookfreak25, I totally loved the banner, I'll post it on my profile page, so if anyone wants to do their own banner go ahead.
This chap was packed full, Iris finally told Damon and Stefan about her past, Dr Martin is gone. and Iris and Elena had a spat
Next Chap- Iris finds the witches house, Isobel makes an appearance- so we're getting closer Klaus's appearance
