Chapter 3 : meeting the town council.
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-Change of settings-
Flashback
Previously
After that Iris excused herself as she had to put her son to bed. She bid them goodnight unaware that Damon followed her with a huge amount of curiosity as he felt something strange about the woman.
Now
-Salvatore Boarding house on a Week End-
Zach asked Iris to meet with him earlier in the week as the mayor decided to do a founder party at the Lockwood's manor and while normally he wasn't invited as the last time they invited him he made quiet a mess with the founder council, this time he had to come as the mayor personally invited him and his niece in order to present the newest Salvatore to the council.
The young vampire went to meet with her uncle unaware that upstairs Damon and Stefan argued about Elena and Damon's reason to stay.
As soon as Iris came in the house Stefan and Damon in a rare form of agreement quieted down and listened on Zach and Iris' conversation.
"Ah Iris I told you some time ago that you would need to meet the Town council as the last Salvatore, well the mayor will host the classic founder party at his house this evening and you and I were invited." said Iris' uncle Zach.
"But I met Stefan and his brother Damon and they claimed to be Salvatore to, so how does that work I suppose that Stefan being in high school make him unable to be on the council but what about Damon?" asked the curious young woman.
"Ah you met them...You are right about Stefan but you see it's more complicated than that as Stefan and Damon aren't from the main line if you can understand that." said Zach visibly nervous and trying to come up with an excuse as to why Stefan or Damon couldn't be on the council.
"Yes I can understand something like that." said the young witch/vampire hybrid thinking of some of the noble Houses back in England.
"Great we will likely need to be there until quiet late so I suggest that you go see Jenna about Teddy." said the man to his young niece who nodded and left to go see Jenna.
-Upstairs, Stefan's room-
"Well that was quite interesting but I better go see what was our dear ''Uncle'' thinking about when he hid his dear niece from us." said Damon looking quite angry at Zach ad thinking back at the surprise he had at Elena's house for the dinner, he was so surprised he almost forgot his plans for Katherine, Elena and ruining Stefan's immortal life. He also took her nerves on the poor Mr. Tanner.
"Wait for me before you talk to Zach." said Stefan
"Why so?" asked the older brother.
"I have to go at Elena's and then we will both talk to Zach, I don't need you to kill him." said the younger brother firmly.
"Fine I have to do something anyway." grumbled Damon.
-Gilbert House-
Iris following her uncle's advice went to see her godmother to ask her if she would be able to watch Teddy for her tonight.
She was allowed inside by Jeremy, who scowled at seeing who was at the door but he still let her in.
She followed the teenager to the kitchen where Elena and Jenna were having breakfast and complaining about one Logan Fell well mostly Jenna complaining about a former love interest.
"Hi Iris what are you doing here this early?" asked Jenna.
"I wanted to know if you could watch Teddy for me tonight I was invited to the Founder Party by the mayor himself." explained the young woman.
"Sadly I can't as I have to make sure those two don't make fools out of themselves tonight." apologized the older woman.
"Shame I'll have to think of something."
"So how come the mayor himself invited you?" asked a curious Jeremy who was interested in this hot looking girl.
"Well it seems that I will have to take the Salvatore's seat on the town council as Zach doesn't seem to be interested in it and both Stefan and Damon aren't able to inherited it." explained the Salvatore woman to both Elena and Jeremy's sake.
"It's nice you know because as soon as I graduate I will hold the Gilbert seat." said Jeremy happy to be able to relate to Iris.
Both Elena and Jenna looked at Jeremy as if he was a stranger and Iris looked nervous as hell, as she knew when someone was interested in her and it seemed the youngest Gilbert was more than interested.
Iris was saved because her would be suitor noticed old looking stuff on the table and resumed his brooding self.
"How much would these thing cost..you know on EBay?" asked Jeremy to his sister.
"You aren't getting this stuff, It's for Mrs. Lockwood Mom promised her that she would loan them for the founder party." explained Elena however her answer seemed to piss her brother off.
"If this stuff belongs to mom and dad why are you giving it away?" asked the teenager harshly.
"I am not giving it away, It is called a loan." replied the young girl.
Jenna and Iris looked at the sibling as they argued about their parents stuff looking as if they didn't belong there.
In the end Jeremy left looking even more angry as before.
"You know I guess I know where does that came from, If I knew someone was willing to lend my mom's stuff to someone else without informing me first, regardless of any promises I would be angry too." said Iris defending the youngest Gilbert.
"What I am supposed to do?" asked Elena.
"Apologize to him and explain ho you see thing." said Iris before saying her goodbye as she had to look for someone who could watch Teddy this evening.
As she left she bumped into Stefan, who was here to see Elena, saying good morning to her relative who was surprised to see her here.
-Salvatore Boarding House-
Damon was reading his brother's work, thinking about who the hell Iris was and what the hell her secret was when Zach came in.
"What are you doing here?" asked the human Salvatore.
"Hmm I am reading my Brother's homework and I am appalled at the way the level pummeled in the last century, I don't understand what the hell is Stefan doing back in high school. In the 70's he was in Harvard and then I understood...no scratch that I didn't understand it then." said Damon.
"I mean what are you doing back in Mystic Falls?"
This question angered Damon who vampire sped to his relative and started to strangle him.
"I don't have to tell you anything besides you are the one hiding thing from me, who is that so called niece of yours huh?" asked the angered vampire.
The man then told Damon what he already told Stefan about his cheating Father, and his half sister and finally her daughter his niece whose father was unknown.
"Remember that I allow you to live so Maybe I'll will pay your niece a visit to make sure that she leave town and doesn't get into the council, We wouldn't want her to know about us, would we? Otherwise an accident can always happen..." said Damon threatening to kill Iris should she believe in the council.
Zach's eyes widened in fear as he heard Damon threatened an innocent relative who didn't know about all of that, fortunately for Zach Stefan choose this moment to come in, and Damon apparently didn't want to fight his brother just to kill him.
Zach fearing for his niece life and Stefan fearing for Elena's decided to take care of Damon using the Salvatore's vervain.
-Lockwood Manor, during the Founder Party-
Zach and Iris, the latter having been forced to call Kreacher to look after her son, made it in time for the founder party.
The Mayor and his wife used a room to have the council meeting, away from the party.
She was introduced to the members present by her uncle.
"This is my niece Iris Lilian Salvatore and as my closest relative she will hold the position of the Salvatore in any council meeting from now on, as I plan to leave town in a while to hopefully find someone for me out there." said Zach.
"Is she a believer?" asked the mayor.
"I didn't really have time to explain it to her and I thought that the council would be in a better position to explain thing to her." replied Zach.
"What about the Salvatore's vervain will she be able to take care of it?" asked the Sheriff.
"I showed her where I kept it and how to take care of the plant." said Iris' uncle.
"Very well, we will explain things to her, you can go Zach." said the Mayor as he looked at Iris.
Zach left nodding at Iris, the man left the party altogether to prepare for the transport of Damon.
The council told Iris about everything, vampire and how the council were the only one who knew they existed.
Iris at first wanted nothing to do with them as if they discovered what she was they would surely kill her, but then she thought about the opportunity she had of infiltrating the council and sabotaging their efforts.
"Ok say I believe you, what will I have to do?" asked Iris giving the impression of a young woman wanting to know where the hell she was going.
"Well as a Salvatore, you will be in charge of the town's vervain supply, as you know vervain can be used in many way against vampires." explained Mayor Lockwood.
"Sometimes member of the council can be given tasks to do, like the one Logan volunteered for, fetching the Gilbert's pocket watch." said Sheriff Forbes, Caroline's mother.
"Why the hell do you need a pocket watch for?" asked a bewildered Iris.
"Well you see it can be used as a way to find vampires." explained Carol Lockwood the mayor's wife.
Iris then knew that she would have to be extremely careful around the watch and the council, the council then was dismissed and the member went to mingle amongst the town people.
Iris took a good look around the house, she found the original Guest List and was surprised to see Damon and Stefan's names on it, sadly as they were no pictures she couldn't know for sure whether Stefan and Damon were just named after this brothers or if they were the brothers themselves.
Deep in thought she then found Jenna looking at Logan Fell, deciding to warn her godmother against his type : Arrogant thinking of themselves as god's gift to women in other words Asshole and Jerk.
"How was the meeting?" asked Jenna to her godchild.
"Boring, but you should be wary of this Logan, he remind me of someone that tried to date me some time ago, he was an arrogant boy, thinking of himself as god's gift to women... He was an A*** and a J***." said Iris.
"Maybe but I like to live dangerously and I can bite twice as hard as him." said Jenna.
"Fine do as you want just know that I don't want to see you get hurt by such a man." said Iris as she left the party to return to her son.
When Iris left the house she saw Damon and Caroline not far ahead with the former kissing the neck of the latter however she noticed that Damon wasn't kissing her neck but sucking her blood only to drop m*** in pain.
Iris decided to hide, as she didn't want to be found out and she also had some trouble with her Vampire face. Using her senses she was able to heard everything that was said between the brothers.
"Vervain..." moaned Damon in pain due to the plant.
"I knew I couldn't spike your drink, so I spiked hers instead now you won't be able to hurt anybody." said Stefan sounding both smug at having tricked his brother and sad at having be forced to do that.
Still hidden Iris then saw Stefan put Damon's weakened body inside her uncle's car and drove off towards the Salvatore Boarding house.
'It seems that both Stefan and Damon are vampires, I better be careful if I don't want them to know my secret.' thought the young vampire.
-Three days after, High school Iris' office-
It was a school day and Iris had to work, she was still in shock over the fact that Stefan and Damon were vampire and that Zach seemed to know about them, she really hoped that Zach forgot to tell her or something, because she didn't like when people kept her out of the loop to ''protect her'' she recalled when she was just fifteen and her friends didn't tell her about the order of the phoenix.
As someone knocked on her office's door Iris shook herself out of her memories.
"Enter!" said the counselor.
As planned the whole football team came inside as a group to talk about the recent death of their coach.
"Please sit on the couch!" said Iris looking at the team.
As they sat Iris began to talk about how to deal with death, especially death of teacher and sorts. She told them that since they were a sports team maybe they should make a vow to win the championship for their teacher or something like that.
Iris kept Stefan, Tyler and Matt in the corner of her eye while the team discussed amongst each other.
Stefan as the newcomer didn't talk much, Matt seemed to dislike him maybe because he was Elena's ex boyfriend and Stefan the new one and Tyler as Matt's friend also disliked Stefan, she recalled Stefan's initiation in the team when Tyler was a little rough with him.
But it seemed that with the death of coach Tanner those little internal dispute were no more.
Seeing that the school team wasn't going to fall apart Iris decided to search for Caroline as she remembered that the blond girl came with Damon at Elena's dinner and that Damon attacked her before going down.
So Iris searched the school for the blond cheerleader and found her talking to Elena and Bonnie about some sexy carwash or something.
"Ah Miss Salvatore, now that you are here please tell me that you are going to be one of our washers tomorrow?" asked/demanded Caroline causing the three young women to look at the blond like she grew a second head.
"Wha...But I am no student." weakly protested the young woman.
"NO Matter according to my sources you are one of the most sexy young woman inside this high school so to gain more money you are going to volunteer to wash cars tomorrow, and please remember that it is a sexy car wash so please dress like it." said the blond one unwilling to let Iris say no to her, before leaving the three women standing in the corridor starring in shock at the blondes back.
"What the hell happened?" asked a disbelieving Bonnie.
"It seems Miss Forbes volunteered me for tomorrow's carwash?" weakly said the counselor still not processing what the hell happened with the young blonde cheerleader.
"Is that even allowed?" asked Elena.
"Don't know, is she always like that?" asked Iris thinking that maybe the blonde acted like that because of what happened to her a few nights ago.
"Mhh...Yeah but she usually doesn't volunteer someone she doesn't know like that." explained the black haired girl.
After that the day continued as usual for a school day, that night while Teddy slept Iris once more left to an hospital in a nearby town a stole some blood.
-The next day Iris' home-
Having once more called Kreacher to watch Teddy the young mother decided that since she was volunteered at a sexy carwash she would go there looking smoking hot, so she dressed herself like so : a black bikini that covered just what was needed, a black T shirt, black shorts that barely went further that her ass leaving her long legs for all to see, black biker boots and of course a black leather jacket.
She then went to the sexy carwash on her bike.
-Sexy carwash location-
Stefan and Elena were already there and as ordered to by Caroline started to remove some clothes and wash some cars.
Just as Elena was going to ask Stefan to remove his ring to keep it safe, an engine noise was heard and soon all could see a bike coming towards the carwash. Caroline was going to say that the person better go somewhere else as it was a carwash and not a bike wash before going silent in shock when she saw who exactly was on the bike.
The whole location has gone silent in shock as Iris got off her bike, went to Caroline took some chemicals and a rag, went to a car and started to strip to her black bikini.
The males present had to swallow when they saw the vision of heaven before them, even Stefan had to remind himself that Iris was related to him although a small part of him tried to tell him that she wasn't that close to him.
The females had looks of envy as they gazed at Iris' perfect hourglass figure.
But whether they were male or female all thought the same thing 'HOLY S***!'.
Soon enough the car wash restarted with a lot of single men and married one trying to get Iris to watch their car.
After a while Caroline went to look for a stock of towel and took too long so Iris went to look for her she found the blonde girl leaving the grounds to head towards the boarding house as if she was in some kind of trance.
Curious the young vampire followed her into her family home, she heard noise from the cellar so she ran towards it and found Damon and Zach fighting for the door of an hidden room possibly where Damon was locked up.
Seeing Damon win and about to kill her uncle Iris threw caution in the air and sped towards Damon she threw him into a wall causing him to look at her in shock.
"Iris...What you to?!" asked Zach in disbelief seeing that his niece's vampire face.
Iris knowing she had to do something about Damon went to him, caught him by his shirt and held him against the wall. She then looked him in the eyes and Damon saw her pupils took over her whole eyes sign of a vampire compelling someone at first Damon felt relieved as he knew a vampire couldn't compel another, but soon his relief turned into fear.
"You will never mention this to anyone but myself and will be unable to bring the subject in a conversation unless we are alone." said Iris compelling Damon.
Damon looked at Iris in fear because what he first thought to be a newborn mistake turned to be something much worse because Iris was somehow a vampire able to compel other vampires. Weak and fearing for his life Damon ran to hide deep inside the house as without his ring he couldn't leave as the sun was still up.
Zach stared in disbelief and shock at his niece and his niece stared back at him in sadness, regret and no small amount of fear, fear of being hated and rejected by another relative of hers.
-Salvatore boarding house living room-
Iris and Zach talked about her nature and the family secret Damon and Stefan true nature.
"You mean you were born that way how can that be...Wait You mean that Lily slept with a vampire?!Please tell me that it was neither Stefan nor Damon.ยป said Zach going through a huge amount of feelings.
"Yes I was born that way, it seems that born vampires grow like normal human until their body fully mature then they enter transition and have to drink blood like any other vampire, the only advantage we got is that once we turn we have the same age as the father. Yes my mother slept with one of them though normally vampire just make the woman forget everything and finally no I don't think either Stefan or Damon could be my father as I don't look like ether of them or I seem to look like my mother with my father coloring." explained Iris to her uncle who grew silent as he had to ponder all of this.
The man after he assured his niece that he didn't hate her, told her that Damon's attack revealed that he couldn't stay in Mystic Falls anymore, so he would leave as soon as possible.
So Iris decided to help him, then she would go look for Damon.
-That evening-
Stefan came in and saw Iris and Zach packing the latter stuff in suitcases, worried he went down to see that Damon escaped.
"What happened?" asked Stefan.
Iris not wanting to stay left but not before sending a look to Zach that said no telling my secret.
Zach then told the vampire that a blond girl freed Damon, that Stefan's brother came close to kill him and that as such he decided to leave Mystic Falls.
-Deep Inside the forest.-
Damon having waited for the night feasted upon un unsuspecting group of druggies, he then called his brother threatening to visit Elena if Stefan didn't give him his ring back.
Iris came at the funeral pyre, he did to hide the bodies.
"Why?" asked the younger vampire.
"Why what?"
"Why attack human, why coming here when you have the whole world to see, why try to kill Zach?" asked Iris not understanding Damon's character but knowing he felt confused about her.
"Because I have to feed, Because I feel like it and because he pissed me off." replied Damon holding Vicky's limp body.
"I don't think so, you obviously have a reason other than making your brother life a living hell and surely you must know that you can feed from blood bags like I do." stated Iris.
"You know what I don't know anything about you, so how about a deal sweet cheek I tell you mine you tell me yours." said a smirking Damon thinking that Iris would never agree to such a deal.
"Really you try to blackmail me when I could just compel the answer out of you." scoffed Iris calling the older vampire's bluff.
"Dammit, fine, The reason I ate Stefan is that we both fell in Love with the same woman back in 1864, woman named Katherine Pierce. I won't bore you with the gory details but she turned out to be a vampire and had compelled the both of us to fall in love with her. Her blood was in our systems when our Father shot us to keep us from saving her from the church the town council imprisoned the vampires. They burned the church thinking us dead, and my dear brother finished the change by killing our father." explained Damon
"I see."
"In reality the vampires never died, as Emily Bennet, one of Katherine's friend did a spell to save them, it imprisoned them in a crypt below the old church, so Katherine is still alive inside that tomb. And want to know the funny thing dear Elena looks exactly like Katherine must be why my dear brother loves her so much." continued Damon.
Hearing this Iris frowned because looking like an ancestor wasn't normal as genetics would do the trick and cause enough difference in people.
"I see it must be a spell of some kind that make Elena look like this Katherine, they also must be related." analyzed Iris shocking Damon.
Iris then seemed to noticed Vicky's body.
"What will you do with her?"
"I don't know maybe turn her."
"You must feel so alone..."
"Don't psych me." said Damon before leaving Iris to process what she learned.
'So Elena looks exactly like her ancestor, the bitch that played and turned Stefan and Damon...She is still alive and trapped inside a spell casted by Bonny's ancestor Emily...And Damon is trying to free her while making his brother's life hell. Why couldn't my life be simple for once.' thought Iris as she left to go back home.
-Iris' home-
Iris took the day to look after Teddy and think about what she learned about Damon and Stefan's history.
After playing with Teddy outside she noticed Vicky coming to the Gilbert house, she also noticed the sunglasses and thought 'Oh hell o He did it!'
She watched from a far as Vicky started freaking out and Elena called Stefan to talk to the distraught young girl, she followed them inside the forest under her trusty invisible cloak, suddenly she heard shooting and ran to the source of the noise only to see Logan Fell about to stake Stefan.
Listening only to her instinct she rushed her fellow council member from behind and bit him harshly in the neck, after drinking a little and ignoring Stefan and Vicky's shocked look she took Logan's gun and broke it with her strength then she put her fingers inside Stefan's wound and dug up the wooden bullets.
"Well now Stefan knows your secret too, And you my ring now!" said Damon coming to them mocking Iris and extending his hand to his brother.
Stefan still in shock gave him the ring, suddenly they were startled as they heard slurping sound, they all turned around and saw that Vicky drank from the council member's body completing the transition.
"I am sorry." said the girl before speeding away.
Finally fed up Iris thought 'That's it no more nice Iris!' She then picked Damon by his clothes and threw him into a tree, shocking his brother.
"First you will clean up your mess and second you will talk to me politely got it buddy!" said Iris firmly as she once more compelled the older Salvatore brothers.
She then turned around to face Stefan "And you I know all there is to know about Katherine including how she looked so you better tell her or I will got it?"
"What?"
"GOT IT?" roared a seriously pissed of Iris.
The threat finally making its way to Stefan's brain the seventeen year old hastily nodded.
"Good, now I will go home and I better not hear anything about Vicky or I will take care of the problem, and you don't want me taking care of your problem." threatened the young vampire before leaving to sleep her anger off.
To be continued...
Next time Alaric comes into town...