Iris was freshly showered and slipped on her night clothes, her mind running back to the last two days of events, she sighed and brushed her hair pulling it away from her face she heard a knock on the door.
Iris headed downstairs and frowned when she saw who was on the other side of the door
"Damon what are you doing here?" she asked looking at him, he sighed and ran his hand through his hair
"I agreed to the plan" he told her, she cocked an eyebrow
"Good for you" she was about to shut the door but he held it open
Making her sigh
"Look I don't know what game you're game playing-"
"Iris I didn't mean anything I said before I was angry and-"
"I would never betray you Damon" she said sincerely, he sighed and gently cupped her cheek
"I know" he leant forward and kissed he temple. There was a comfortable moment of silence Iris stepped out on to the porch and sat down on her porch swing he sat down beside her
"So where are you and Katherine going to go when she's out?" she asked curiously
"Not a clue" he muttered "but somewhere"
Iris smiled at him "Will you miss me?" she asked
He chuckled "Between you and me honey you're the one that I will miss the most"
She blushed and shoved him
"You big pansy" she laughed.
He shook his head, "You may want to get something warmer to wear "
"Why?"
"I thought you might want to be there when the tomb is open"
"What?" she asked her eyes widening "it's happening tonight?"
"I thought you was a girl who loved adventure, or do you just like reading about it" he teased, with that Iris ran back into her house, pulling on a pair of jeans and a random top, she slipped on her sneakers and grabbed her keys and jacket
"Let's go" she said running ahead of him making him chuckle in amusement god he wasn't lying he would definitely miss the mysterious raven head.
They arrived at the grave yard where Iris could see Stefan had done the digging
"Why did you bring her"? Elena demanded tugging Iris towards her side
"Well since she's involved now why not" he shrugged "Witches" he greeted Bonnie and her grandmother
"Can we do this already, graveyards freak me out" Iris shuddered
Bonnie's grandmother looked at her with a knowing look and cleared her throat
"Let's go" Elena muttered they went down the hole where Iris witnessed Bonnie's grandmother lit a torch
"Air…earth…fire" Bonnie's grandmother muttered
"Water" Bonnie passed a dish of water to her
"That's it?" Elena asked frowning
"What?" Bonnie asked
"Water from the tap, I just thought it was mystical or blessed" Elena muttered earning a snort from Iris, Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"What's that?" Iris asked seeing Damon pulling out a vial from his jacket
"Something to keep Katherine going" he informed them
Just then Bonnie and her grandmother began to chant in Latin.
Iris felt the magic buzzing around her she felt warmed and a spark going through her, unknown to her, Bonnie's grandmother was drawing some magic from Iris's being. Since the older woman knew she was a powerful magical creature, unknown to her and the others her emerald orbs were taking a gold tint to them. She blinked it away. Iris jumped when the fire surrounding them flared up.
"What's happening?" Elena asked grabbing on to Stefan's sleeve.
Iris witnessed as the tomb began to open slowly she felt dread pool in the pit of her something she felt something was about to go wrong.
"It worked" Elena stated
"Of course it worked" Bonnie's grams scoffed
Damon turned to Stefan "Haven't you got some fire to build?"
"I'll be back with the gasoline" Stefan told Elena and rushed out.
Damon glanced at Bonnie and her grandmother suspiciously and then looked at Iris
"Ready?" he asked her
"What?" she said thoroughly confused
"Damon don't" Elena snapped as he grabbed Iris's wrist
"Do you seriously think that I'm going to go in alone so you can seal me shut?" he snapped dragging her forward "you are seriously mistaken"
"You really are an arse hole" Iris muttered as he roughly pushed her into the tomb
"Don't take her in there" Bonnie's gram snapped "or I'll bring the walls down"
"If you do she's going with me" Damon scowled "I don't trust you"
"Ergh you're such a prat" Iris snapped she turned around looking at the three women
"I'll be fine" she assured them.
Damon grabbed a torch and lightly shoved Iris forward they walked further into the dark tomb she could hear thousands of whispers there was something in the air she sensed it, her mind was buzzing she felt energized it took her a second to realise that this was magic.
"What's that?" she asked looking around, Damon pulled her towards her who wrapped an arm around him, and she felt oddly soothed by him
"Better?" he asked she nodded "You know I will miss you Iris, you're one of the most interesting human's I've come across"
"I'll take that as a compliment" she said softly
They walked further in; Iris saw the stone walls and looked around
"Where is she?" he muttered
"It's weird looking for a corpse which looks like Elena" Iris commented
"They've been in there too long" Elena muttered pacing up and down, she was on tender hooks waiting for Iris to remerged she couldn't take it anymore and ran in.
"IRIS" Elena shouted,
Further down the tomb Iris jumped realising how close Elena's scream was
"She's here, I have to find her" Iris said "ELENA" she went to ran back but Damon grabbed her wrist
"You're not going anywhere" he snapped,
She looked at him earnestly "You really think I'm going to let them lock you in" she stood on her tip toes and kissed his cheek "You're my friend Damon I won't let that happen"
He looked at her and whatever he found he did "Go" he whispered with one last fleeting look Iris ran.
"ELENA" Iris shouted
"IRIS" she heard running towards Elena's voice, her footsteps echoed around the stoned walls.
"ELENA" she called and ran further ahead and slammed into something causing her to land on her ass. She looked up and sighed in relief at who it was
"Iris I got worried" she helped the smaller girl onto her feet "I couldn't let you go in alone"
"I was with Damon"
"Yeah the guy who dragged you in here wonderful" Elena muttered "Oh my god"
Iris eyes widened at the sight, they were surrounded by mummified vampire
"Bloody hell" Iris muttered, Elena gripped onto her arm and pulled the raven head closer to her.
They came to face with a living vampire, Iris recognised her as Anna, she had saw the girl hanging around with Jeremy
"You must have a taste for it" Anna hissed glaring at Elena "if you scream and even bothered to escape-"
Iris didn't bother to listen she had been subjected to a lot of evil monologues beforehand and now they all just blurred together. The vampires edged closer causing Iris to tense knowing that if they had a taste of her blood they would suck her dry.
"Mother?" Anna called making Iris's attention focus on her again "Your boyfriend did this you know"
"It was Stefan's father" Elena shot back.
"As well as Jonathan Gilbert"
"Well I'm adopted so there's no relation there" Elena snapped, Iris's eyes widened
"You're adopted?"
"Yeah, sorry I just found out a couple of days ago" Elena gave her hand a small squeeze
Iris nodded understanding just then Elena screamed, Iris saw Anna biting into Elena's wrist
"HEY" Iris shouted but Anna sent her flying backwards, she landed with a sickening thud, Iris looked through her hazy vision and saw Elena being dragged towards who she assumed was Anna's mother
"Let her go" a new voice demanded it took her a moment to realise it was Stefan, thank merlin he arrived when he did she thought he picked up Elena and hoisted Iris onto her feet, the taller girl wrapped an arm around Iris's waist steadying the petite raven head.
"Go" he ordered them, casting a quick looked over to Iris and saw that she wasn't seriously harmed.
They found the exit Iris saw Bonnie and her grandmother looking through the book
"Iris, Elena" Bonnie said and was relieved when she saw her friends "Where's Stefan?"
She asked as her and Elena stepped out of the tomb
"He's right behind us" Elena and let go of Iris seeing that she was steady on her feet
Iris frowned seeing that Stefan was getting out of the tomb
"What are you doing?" Elena asked
"We'll fix it" Bonnie said
"The spell is still up, he can't come out and neither can Damon" Iris said realising this
Stefan nodded "I'm going to find him" he turned back around going back inside the tomb,
Bonnie and her grandmother began chanting, Iris was pacing up and down biting her nails
"Iris" Elena called causing her to stop pacing "I think it's working"
Iris saw a figure emerging from the tomb but it was Anna
"I just wanted my mother back" Anna said, Iris frowned knowing that was a good enough reason for her to not hold a grudge on the young vampire "Jeremy's safe, he's outside"
Iris was growing more and more anxious, her Gryffindor side emerged knowing her friends were in danger, she grabbed and torch and ran into the tomb not listening to Elena's scream to come back.
Iris heard shouting "She not worth spending an eternity down here" she rounded the corner panting
"Damon, we've got to leave the tomb is closing" she breathed, Damon looked at her "Damon please" she pleaded looking at him, he looked desperate and surprised that she actually returned "Please"
Stefan scooped Iris up and she was relieved when both vampires used super speed to exit the tomb, Iris clutched on to his leather jacket as he slowly lowered her on to the ground they were outside, Iris saw Elena leaning over an unconscious Jeremy
Stefan squeezed her shoulder and moved over to Elena, Iris turned towards Damon who had a sad smile on his face
"She wasn't there" he muttered looking heart broken, Iris felt a pang go through her heart at this and stepped forward she startled him by hugging him
"I'm sorry" she whispered, he hugged her just as tight and kissed her temple
"Me too" he muttered she pulled back he tucked in her stray curl,
"Goodbye Iris" he was gone, Iris looked around and noticed that Bonnie and her grandmother was also gone, she walked towards Stefan, Elena and Jeremy the vampire was saying goodbye to Elena. He then waltzed over to her
"Iris I don't-"
"You should go check on your brother Stefan, he's hurt" Stefan nodded and kissed her cheek and was gone.
Iris sighed dropping down besides Elena
"So wasn't expecting that to happen" Elena muttered as Jeremy was coming round
"Me neither, so where is Katherine then?" she asked, the brunette shook her head
"I should call Jenna she can pick us up" Iris nodded as Elena stood up, but before she made the phone call Elena grabbed her hand pulling Iris on to her feet
"Iris I didn't want you to get involved in any of this, I'm so sorry-"
"Elena whether you like it or not I am, plus you're my friend do you think you're the only one that can have an adventure?" she smiled nudging her, Elena chuckled and ruffled the smaller girl's hair.
Soon enough Jenna parked up and called them over, Iris bid them goodnight and walked up to her gravel driveway, she unlocked her door and shut it firmly behind her Iris heard her stomach grumble and made herself a sandwich after this she was definitely heading to bed she was running on no sleep. Iris finished up her food and switched her lights off and headed upstairs.
She stripped out of her jeans and top and pulled on a pair of shorts and a random shirt and crawled into bed the day events had taken their toll on her, her eye lids slowly drifted shut and she was soon fast asleep.
"What's this then?" Fenir Greyback snarled,
"Looks like we caught a couple of truants" sneered Scabior
Iris groaned as she clutched her stinging face she could hear Hermonie screaming
"Let go of her" Ron shouted but then she heard a whack and knew that Ron had been hit
"What's wrong with you ugly?" a snatcher laughed Iris clenched her jaw when a large filthy hand dove into her raven locks and pulled her head back causing her to cry out
"She's got a tight looking body" Fenir purred she felt her flesh crawl when his slimy tongue dart out slid over her cheek
Iris whimpered
"Hmm, maybe we should keep the girls we can have some fun, send the boy to the ministry" Scabior suggested, Greyback let go of Iris's hair causing her head to drop forward her curls fell in her face
"Hmm well- wait" the wolf snapped and grabbed Iris's face he wretched her bangs away from her face causing her to cry out "What's this then" she felt him prodding her scar causing her to wince
"No, don't touch it" she snapped scrambling backwards but hit a pair of legs so she couldn't move
"Ah I think the dark lord would be pleased with our bounty" Greyback smirked darkly. Iris cried out in pain as she was booted in her stomach, she hit the dirt face forward and struggled as she was pulled to her feet.
AN: Thanks for the reviews so far, I need your opinion though whether Elijah who does eventually show up should stay with the Martins? or should he stay with Iris?
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