AN: Thanksfor the reviews so far and thanks to Dragon of Ice and Light, I had no clue I was spelling Stefan's name wrong till they pointed it out
Anyway on with the chapter
Iris stood at the station looking around panic was beginning to set in having witnessed her aunt and uncle driving away laughing, Hagrid never told her how to get into the platform, she wouldn't dare ask the conductors walking around, the small thin girl bit her bottom lip. She was getting stares from passer byes
"Packed with muggles of course, what was the platform number?" Iris head jerked up hearing the term she swung her head around and saw a plump woman being followed by with four boys with all flaming red hair and a small girl who was roughly the same height as Iris but she wasn't as thin.
Iris pushed her trolley after them she saw they were standing in front of the barrier and witnessed one of boys charging towards the barrier but before she could see what happen next a crowd passed her. Iris saw two more of the boys going, she approached the woman
"Excuse me Ms" Iris said quietly "Could you…tell me-"
"How to get on to the platform dear?" she asked kindly, Iris nodded "Ron's new as well" she gestured to a freckly boy who gave her a small wave "Well all you have to do is go through the barrier, if you're nervous just run straight through"
Iris took a deep breath and ran towards the barrier she clenched her eyes shut expecting to hit the hard walls but nothing happened she gasped seeing a bright scarlet train, and then all of a sudden everything was turning dark she frowned and looked around shivered realising that she was in the Department of Mystery
"No" she whispered seeing she was on a dais with the veil and saw Sirius falling through
"NO" she shrieked running towards his falling form "SIRIUS, NO SIRIUS COME BACK" she was grabbed around the waist and thrown off the dais, Iris trembled her face covered in tears
"This is your fault" she looked up and saw Remus Lupin glaring down at her "it's your fault that they're all gone" she was being surrounded the people who were meant to be her friends "All your fault" Ron, Hermonie, Kingsley, Tonks, Molly, Fred, George hissed at her
"Don't you see Potter, you're something that can never be loved" she stared into red eyes "worthless you are in their eyes" his cruel words rang out "you bring destruction everywhere"
"NOO" Iris screamed shooting awake trembling tears streaming down her face, she felt sick and felt bile arise she jumped out of bed but crashed onto the floor, Iris crawled to the bathroom and threw up whatever was in her gut, she sobbed quietly running her shaky fingers through her hair and laid down on the floor the side of her face was pressed against the cool floor which felt good against her flush skin.
Iris took a few shaky breaths and managed to get on to her feet she turned the tap on and splatter her face with cold water and brushed her teeth thoroughly she sighed and leant against the counter and looked at herself in the mirror not recognising the girl in the mirror she looked scared and vulnerable
"It happened a long time ago" Iris muttered herself and shook her head. Once her shaking had died down she headed back into the bedroom and looked at the time, she had only about an hour and a half to her alarm went off. She decided to get ready for school now.
Iris rubbed her eyes and stripped out of her clothes and turned the shower on.
After her quick shower, Iris slipped on some underwear and a bra and proceeded to look through her closet decided to wear a simple long sleeve Jersey dress that ended just above her knees. She ran her brush through her hair and pulled it into a low side pony tail, Iris made sure that her bangs covered her scar. She pulled on a pair of thick tights and a pair of flat ballet pumps.
Iris grabbed her crop jacket and headed downstairs, she made herself a cup of tea and some buttered toast, once she had scoffed down her food she grabbed her crop jacket and her car keys and headed outside. She made sure the door was locked behind her and walked down towards her old bright blue Ford.
Iris dumped her bag into the seat beside her and buckled herself in. she glanced at her face in the mirror and saw that she didn't look like a zombie; she revved the engine and tore out of her driveway.
Iris arrived at school and parked her car beside a familiar SUV, she grabbed her belongings and exited the car
"Iris" she looked up and smiled seeing it was Jeremy
"Hi" she smiled at him as they headed inside "How was your weekend?"
"Can't complain" he shrugged his shoulders, "how was that dinner thing Elena was on about?"
Iris tucked in a stray curl "It was interesting" she said stopping at her locker and saw Jeremy glaring at Tyler Lockwood who was with his football buddies
"What's with the death glare?" she asked lightly, spinning the dial of her locker
"What?" he asked startled, she smiled and shook her head
"You and Lockwood, what's going on with you?" she asked pulling some of her books out of her bag and shoving it into her locker
"Ergh…I just don't like him" she quirked an eyebrow
"Oh, a girl is involved isn't she?" she said making him look at her in surprise "don't bother denying it, it's written all over your face" she looked through one of her books to see if her homework may have slipped in there
"'Yeah, he's just treating her like garbage and she doesn't deserve that" he said angrily and ran his hand through his hair
"I'm venturing a guess. Is this girl Vicki Donavan?" she asked closing her locker and looking up at him
"How do you-"
"The night of the party" Iris answered "how is she anyway"?
"She's out of hospital, she could do so much better than him" Jeremy grumbled, Iris frowned "From what I heard so can you" she said quietly making him glare at her
"Iris you don't understand" he snapped she held her hands up in a surrender position
"You're right I do, but I'm just saying what I think, go ahead and chase her if you think she's the love of your life" just then the bell rang "I'll see you later Jeremy" she said and turned on her heel leaving him behind.
Jeremy stared after her, her words were ringing around his head.
Iris was sitting in the cafeteria with the others; she sat in between Bonnie and Elena whilst Stefan was opposite them
"So Iris, you coming to the game on Friday?" Elena asked as Iris sipped her juice
"Hmm, sure why not, you guys make such a big deal out of these games I want to see what's all the fuss is about" she smiled, making them laugh
"Well just a word of warning, don't expect to win our team sucks" Bonnie said, Iris chuckled
"Well we got Stefan for this season, so it may not be all bad" Elena said smiling at the vampire. Iris cast an amused looked over to Stefan
"Sure, I be he's really fast, superfast" she raised her eyebrows up and down making him roll his eyes, she sure was an amusing little thing he thought
"Great, well its starts at 6" Elena informed them "Where's Caroline?"
There was a moment of silence
"I think she's with Damon" Bonnie said
Iris bit her lip worried for the blond and saw Stefan had tensed
"Hmm, no offence Stephan your brother is kind of creepy" Iris muttered making him smirk
"I know, I think he gets off at that" Stefan murmured
Iris arrived home later that day and dumped her bag on the floor and took off her jacket and hanged it up. She slipped off her shoes and headed further into the room towards the kitchen, she stretched her stiff muscles above her head having spent the last two hours in the library helping Rose out, by restacking the shelves. Iris walked into the kitchen and looked through her cupboard wondering what to have for dinner, she decided to have some noodles and set it to boil.
Iris groaned and rolled off of the couch utterly bored out of her mind. It was seven in the evening she had done her homework and had dinner and now there was nothing to do. She didn't want to spend another evening watching television. Iris sighed frustrated and decided to head to the grill, it gave her something to do she thought. She slipped on her shoes and grabbed her wallet, keys and jacket and headed outside towards her car.
Iris buckled herself in and set off towards the bar/restaurant.
She parked outside and exited the car, Iris walked into the place and saw that there were quite a few people here. She looked around and decided to sit at the bar not wanting to take a table since she was on her own.
Iris plopped down on the high stool and place her bag next to her
"What can I get you?" a friendly woman asked from behind the bar
"Ergh, just a coke please" Iris smiled, the woman nodded and a second later her drink was in front of her. Iris pulled out her current novel that she was reading and dove straight in, getting lost in a world of corset, balls and Lords and Ladies,
"Mind if I join you?" a familiar voice asked, she jumped making the person who spoke chuckle
"Bloody hell what is it with everyone sneaking up behind others" she muttered, and looked towards the person seeing a smirking Damon Salvatore
"You're rather jumpy" he sat down beside her much to her annoyance
"Can you blame, what with all the attacks an all" she said looking at him from the corner of her eye waiting for his reaction,
"Sucks I know" he waved the barwoman over.
"Hmm, so what brings you to Mystic Falls?" she asked setting her book down
"Visiting Stefan, have to see my baby brother don't I?" he took a swig of his drink "what about you?"
"Needed a fresh start, just my luck to move into a town where weird stuff is happening" she muttered and sighed
"So why aren't you at home?" he asked looking at her, his eye narrowed on the visible scar on the back of her hand
"There's only so much you can do in a large empty house, you get lonely" she muttered looking down, and jumped when he grabbed her hand
"What happened here?" he asked holding her hand up to his eyes, she mentally swore, to the human eye the scar was barely visible but to vampires there heightened senses allowed to see it clearly
"None of your business" she attempted to snatch her hand back but he held on firmly, "Let go….please" she whispered, Damon could see the fear in her eyes and for once he wasn't seeking it out so he abruptly let her go.
Iris hopped off of the stool and grabbed her bag and book, Damon quickly grabbed the back of her dress to stop her, knowing that the girl didn't like being touched
"Is this the reason why you left England?" he asked his cocky demeanour gone for a second
"One of the reasons" she muttered feeling his hold on her dress loosen giving her a chance to flee, Damon watched the petite teenager leave.
He sipped his drink wondering about her, she obviously had trust issues he knew that from observing her through his crow form. He knew all the signs and saw that she was a girl whose been abused in the past, her jumpy behaviour uncomfortable when someone was within close proximity.
She was living alone as well making her easy prey, he decided wouldn't kill her just have a taste when he had the chance and knew he would have the perfect chance at the football game, since there would be tons of other students and hardly anyone would notice but he had to be careful of Stefan.
AN: Another chapter so please review