Iris scrubbed off the makeup and changed out of her costume no longer in the mood. She slipped on her night clothes and rubbed her red teary eyes. She sniffed and brushed her hair out putting it in a messy bun, she looked at the remnants of this evening which was the bruise on her cheek she was lucky that the vampire didn't break her cheek bone.

Iris headed downstairs and flicked the television on, she was hardly paying attention to the screen and was brought out of thoughts when there was a knock on the door, and she frowned and headed towards her front door.

Iris looked through the peep hole and frowned seeing who was there she didn't want to see him

"Iris, please open the door"

She could see that he was looking rather upset; Iris sighed and opened the door

"What do you want?" she asked crossing her arms in front of her chest

"You gave me quite a whack back there" he said as she stepped out and moved passed him to sit down on the porch swing

"You deserved it" her emotions were getting the best of her, Damon frowned thoroughly confused when she let out a sob,

"Iris?" she shook her head and wiped away a stray tear, the vampire sat down next to her

"Donavan was dangerous she needed to be put down" he stated

"You make her sound like an animal" she frowned, glaring at him her emerald orbs shining with tears

"She was hardly a person" he muttered

"But she was, the way you took her life away how is that going to affect Matt huh?" she saw him swallow "her death was-"

"Inventible" Damon cut her off, and cupped her cheek "she was out of control and was going to drain the town dry Iris, you must understand that, I regret that she died the way she did but it's in the past now" he pressed his temple against hers, she sighed quietly and wrapped her arms around his neck and embraced him, Damon was startled but hugged her back it felt nice, having hardly ever hold someone so gently, but to him if he squeezed her so tight she would break.

"My parents were murdered Damon" she murmured, and pulled back "they were murdered in cold blood, my mother stood in front of my crib trying to protect me and he just killed her like that"

Damon stroked her hair "I can still hear her screaming for him to spare me" she shuddered slightly, he stroked a large hand down her back

"Deaths shouldn't be taken lightly, they rip peoples worlds apart" she sagged against him, relaxing in his hold, it was adding up to Damon why she had reacted the way she did when Vicki was murdered, and it mustn't have helped when she hear about all the animal attacks,

Damon sighed and laid a gentle kiss on her temple, he tilted her chin up

"Iris, I am sorry" he said, she could see sincerity in his eyes there was a tense moment between the pair, Iris finally nodded

"I accept your apology" she said quietly, his hold on her tightened for a brief moment and then he released her.

"You should go to sleep Iris, it's been a long night" he smiled lightly and kissed the top of her head and walked down her driveway

Iris stood up feeling the wind ruffle her curls "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to try and make things right" he called out to her, she smiled and nodded and turned around heading back inside.

"Ester are you sure this is wise?" Mikael asked his wife; Iris kept her eyes on stoned floor sniffing lightly

"Yes Mikael she's a little girl, I found her wondering around the village and she doesn't know where she is" Ester said glancing at the small child "or who she is, her name is Iris that's all I can gather"

Mikael sighed and looked over to the child and saw that the girl was trembling slightly; he walked over to her and knelt down to her height,

"Iris that's a beautiful name" he commented and was pleased to see her blushing, she ducked her head

"There no need to be shy" he smiled,

"Sorry sir" she replied softly, looking at him with stunning emerald eyes

"You've got beautiful eyes"

"That's what drew me in" Ester smiled it was true she had been roaming the market and came across the small girl who at the time was being terrorised by a group of men, with a flick of her wrist Ester had knocked them all out, "she's special Mikael, her destiny is great"

"Hmm there is something different about her" he commented tugging on of her raven curls causing the little girl to giggle in front of him making him smile

"You got pretty eyes too sir" she smiled and surprised him by stroking his face, her caught her little hand and placed it in his own and rubbed his hand across her hand again making her giggle,

"So?" Ester asked amused, that little girl had already managed to wrap her tiny finger around Mikael

"Would you like to stay with us Iris?" he asked she surprised him by wrapping her thin arms around his shoulders

"Thank you" she whispered

"No problem" and proceeded to scoop her up, Mikael situated her on his hip, he hadn't done that for a while holding a child.

Iris sighed and rolled over, she wondered what had woken her up from her peaceful slumber but it was soon answered when she could hear knocking on her front door, Iris swung her legs out of bed and padded barefooted downstairs

"Coming, coming" she called "bloody hell" she muttered and pulled open the door and frowned when she saw it was Elena

"Iris, oh my god I would've come last night-"

"Its fine you had to deal with Jeremy" she smiled and stepped aside allowing her in and led her to the kitchen

"That's why I came in" Elena said and shook her head when Iris offered her some juice,

"I asked Damon to compel Jeremy so he won't remember last night"

Iris looked at her in alarm "What?"

"He can't remember Iris" she said frantically "I don't want Jeremy to be involved he doesn't deserve this"

"Are you sure that's wise?" Iris asked

"I want to help him move on" Elena admitted, Iris sighed

"If you think that's best, but Elena be aware that if he finds out you're not going to be his favourite person"

Elena sighed and nodded already knowing the consequences

"So you'll go along with it?" she asked

Iris bit her lip and nodded "If you want me to I will"

Elena smiled and hugged her tightly "Thank you Iris, I should be going" she hugged her again and left, leaving behind Iris who was having conflicted emotions about the whole situation and knew it wouldn't end well.

Iris hummed softly to the radio as she packed away some of the groceries she had gotten earlier, when she was done she was utterly bored out of her mind, and glanced at the time and saw that it was nearing seven in the evening, she knew Elena and all the others had their own lives so she opted to go to the grill for dinner, Iris grabbed her keys and wallet and headed out.

She climbed into her car and buckled herself in, hmm she thought she might see someone since it was a Saturday night after all. Iris parked in front of the grill and headed inside; she looked around and was glad that Matt wasn't there since she didn't know whether or not she could face him. Iris decided to take the table in the corner and sat down

She scanned through the menu and looked up when she felt a shadow cast over her

"Caroline?" she cocked an eyebrow seeing the blond

"Hey" she smiled and took the seat opposite her

"What are-"

"Matt's mom is back in town" she stated and rolled her eyes "the woman's a slut to be honest, so I thought I would join you" she declared taking the menu off of Iris

"Sure why not?" Iris plastered a smile across her face. The rest of the evening Iris didn't know whether to bash her skull in or stab herself, Caroline was a sweet girl crude at times but other than that she was nice but her voice merlin at times she thought her ears would bleed.

"Caroline I think that's your cell" Iris said hearing the incessant ringing

"Oh right, didn't know I even changed the ring tone" Caroline muttered and answered it, Iris went back to eating her meal which was a chicken salad and took a forkful of the crunchy lettuce, when Caroline slammed down her phone Iris looked up confused

"Everything ok?" she asked

"It's my mom, she wants me back home. I'll see you later" Caroline said and pecked Iris on the cheek and left. As soon as she was gone Iris let out a relieved sigh she looked up when she heard a chuckle

"Ergh, please I just got rid of one annoying person" Iris muttered making Damon chuckle

"Aw how is my favourite girl doing"? He took Caroline's vacant seat and took a bite out Iris's meal and promptly spat it back out

"Ew Damon" she scrunched up her nose in disgust "I can hardly be your favourite by the way, since I'm the only one you haven't pissed off beyond belief" she drawled

"Your words wound me" he said mockingly clutching his unbeaten heart causing Iris to roll her eyes. She slowly chewed her food and looked at him

"Why were you so desperate to get that necklace back?" she asked "off of Bonnie" she clarified looking at him

Damon looked at her and sighed sipping his drink

"It belonged to Katherine" he stated

Iris looked at him carefully it was all clicking into place "You didn't come back for Stefan you came back for Katherine" she said her eyes growing "You think she's in the tomb-"

"What do you know of the tomb?" he hissed

Iris's eyes narrowed at the way he was speaking to her "Excuse me, but Stefan told me" she paused "and he said it was spelled shut, so you've got no chance"

Damon smirked "aw flower and I thought you knew me better than that" and leant forward enough so that his breath fanned across her face

"That's what I need a witch" Iris paled at this thinking for a millisecond that she was rumbled

"The elder Bennett" he said and leant back into his seat

"But don't you need the exact spell for that?" she asked not feeling hungry anymore

"Hmm that's where Stefan comes in with Elena, if anyone can convince Bennett it's them"

Iris bit her lip and frowned "So Stefan wants to get her out as well?"

Damon shrugged his shoulders

"Not really now that he's got Elena but I know she's there waiting for me to come after all we love each other" he smirked and stood up ruffling her hair "see you later"

Iris frowned watching him walk away wondering would Katherine even be in the tomb after all from her perspective she could see that Katherine was a manipulative vampire since she got both brothers to fall in love with her.

Iris sighed and stood up laying a couple of dollars down to cover her mean and drink. She pulled on her jacket and noted Damon was drinking a glass of scotch,

Iris licked her lips and strolled out of the restaurant/grill bumping into Alaric on the way

"Sorry" she muttered

"No problem" he smiled at her "Iris?" he called out to her causing her to look back at him

"Yes?"

"I just wanted to let you know your essay is by the far best that I've received I'm actually surprised you did better than the actual people who lived here their whole lives" he said, making Iris blush

"Thanks Mr Saltzman, see you at school" she smiled and headed across the parking lot to get to her car. Iris frowned as she reached for her car door and felt as if someone was watching her, she turned around and saw a shadow she blinked and it was gone.

Iris brushed it off putting that down to her imagination. She clamoured into the car and turned the key of her engine revving it and tore out it out of the parking lot.

Iris rolled over in her bed it was finally a Saturday the last week had passed in a blur and nothing interested happened really. She had seen Stefan and the others a couple of times and that was all since she was piled up with extra classes that she had opted to take, the school board had decided she could take several advanced classes since Alaric had informed them that they had child progeny on their hands.

She groaned and looked through her bangs and spied that her alarm clock read ten in the morning. Iris wasn't going to knock this life it was relaxing even though it had a bout of supernatural activity, she sighed when she heard her phone ring

Iris reached over and picked it up having gotten use to using the muggle contraption.

"Hello?"

"Did I wake you?" Elena giggled hearing the English girl's drowsy voice

"Hmm?" she grumbled and pulling her covers over herself

"So you're not a morning person I assume?"

"No, now what do you want?" she asked yawning

"Ok, ok well I wondered if you wanted to hang for the day?" she asked, Iris eye shot open she was excited

"Sure" she grinned "What time? I am utterly bored so-"

"At one" Elena cut her off laughing lightly, she was glad that Iris was around since the gorgeous raven head was take her mind off of what her and Stefan were planning tonight.

"Ok see you there" Iris said bidding her goodbye. At least it would give her something to do for the day after all Damon's done a small disappearing act she knew that the vampire was looking for Katherine, but Iris had a bad feeling about that.

After twenty minutes Iris managed to get out of bed, having a bowl of cereal for breakfast she padded barefooted upstairs and stripped out of her nightclothes and stepped into the warm water, she lathered up the wash cloth and scrubbed her bod.

Iris shampooed and conditioned her hair, she reached out and grabbed the fluffy towel and dried herself she wrapped it firmly around her slender and lithe body and headed out into her bedroom she slipped on some underwear and pulled on a lacy black bra, she rummaged through her closet and opted to wear a pair of dark blue denim skinny jeans and an off the shoulder forest green top, she piled her thick hair into a high pony tail and left her bangs out to frame her face. She pulled on a pair of socks and slipped on her black converses

Iris grabbed her keys and jacket as well as her wallet and locked the front door behind her.

Iris found herself lounging on Elena's bed, they had spent the day chilling and watching a movie and she was now attempting to help the brunette with her chemistry homework

"Seriously you've only just practically started an American school and you know all of this?" Elena asked after Iris had finished explaining a theory.

Iris laughed "My mind learns to adapt" she grinned and flopped down on to the double bed. A minute later Elena had joined her

"So Iris, you ever think of going back to England?" she asked

Iris frowned and shook her head "Hmm no, I don't belong there anymore"

"Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything"

"No, it's fine" Iris smiled lightly

"Iris, if you don't mind me asking why did you come here of all places?" she paused "not that I don't love having you hear but-"

"Change of scenery" she shrugged her shoulders "I'm happier here"

Elena smiled at her "That's good you certainly made things easier to cope with"

Iris nodded stretched her arms above her head. Just then the phone rang causing both teens to jump

"Hold on a sec, it might be Stefan" Elena said.

Iris stared up at the ceiling and played with the end of her curls twirling it around her finger, soon enough Elena returned

"Sorry Iris but I got to go" Elena said causing her to sit up

"Elena what's up?" she asked her eyes scoured face "don't lie"

Elena sighed "fine, Stefan recalled where his father's journal was the one where the spell for removing the tomb spell is in, and we're going to retrieve it"

Iris nodded "Well I'm coming along" she stated standing up

"What?" Elena asked surprised startled "No Iris you're not"

"You can't tell me what to do" Iris said pulling her jacket on

"Something could happen, you could get hurt or-"

"So could you" she spoke over her "you're my friend Elena, and I want to make sure my friends are safe, so whether you like it or not I'm coming"

Elena could see the stubborn glint in Iris's emerald orbs she sighed knowing that the smaller girl wouldn't budge.

"Fine let's go" Elena huffed Iris grinned and nodded grabbing the taller girl's hand dragging her out of the house.

Thanks for all the reviews so far, so here's another chapter at the moment I'm currently writing the masquerade episode which is leading me to one of my favourite episodes 'Rose'

So anyway please leave a review, I really do appreciate them