Iris woke up with a slight smile on her face; she attempted to recall the dream or whatever it was fading away. She glanced at the time and saw that it was about three in the afternoon which didn't surprise her since she had literally no sleep before hand.
Iris sighed and rolled out of bed, she showered quickly and wore a pair of loose flannel bottoms and a camisole, she wasn't planning on going out today, and she had several assignments to do. Iris padded barefooted downstairs and rummaged through her freezer, she opted to have pizza for dinner since it was easy to cook, and she dropped down on her armchair and switched her laptop on and started to work.
Iris chewed on the junk food and sighed having just finished her work and ended up like several on her previous night's spending it in front of the television. Iris headed to bed early since she needed some more sleep.
Iris groaned and rolled over glancing over at her alarm clock, she was that it was nearing noon. She lay back down but was soon forced to sit up again when she heard her cell buzz; she reached over for it but went too far forward and ended up crashing face first onto the floor
"Oww" she muttered and grabbed the cell and saw that it was a message from Elena
'Want to come over? See you at 1"
Iris shrugged her shoulders she had nothing better to do.
Iris had a quick shower and slipped on a pair of black skinny jeans and a powdered blue top. She brusher her thick hair and left it out. Iris slipped on her worn out converses and grabbed her keys and wallet along with her jacket, she locked the front door behind her and noted that her railing was a bit wobbly she may have to get it fixed she thought.
Iris knocked on the front door and a second later it was opened revealing a smiling Elena
"Hey"
"Hi" she grinned and stepped inside, Elena led her into the kitchen where she got the raven head a drink, she plopped down on a stool as Elena sat on the other one, and she sipped her drink and looked at Elena
"Something happened I assume?" Iris said a moment later
"How do you do that? Are you psychic?" Elena asked causing Iris to roll her eyes
"No, I'm observant so?" she said
Elena sighed and then explained last night what happened at the boarding house
"So there are vampires out of the tomb?" she asked this wouldn't bode well for the small town, a bunch of ravenous vampires out of the tomb
"Yeah, but Damon killed one last night" Elena sighed she stood up a moment later "I left my cell upstairs I'll be back in a second"
Iris nodded and finished off her drink, she had just set the glass on the table when there was a knock on the table, knowing that Elena wouldn't have heard that and there was no one else there, she stood up and answered the door
"Damon?" she asked confused as to why the vampire was there
"Flower" he grinned she just frowned remembering what he did a couple of nights ago
"Are you ignoring me? Or is this the silent treatment?" he stepped into the house, Iris wanted to smack him
"No, I'm not but you can't blame me for being cautious since the last time I saw you killed my history teacher" she said folding her arms across her chest
"Ah well he's back isn't he?" Damon rolled his eyes "anyway have you spoken to Stefan recently?"
"Not since a couple of days ago" she answered a frowned adorned her face "what happened?"
Damon sighed and ran his fingers through his hair "we had a fight and he stormed off, when he didn't come back last night, I thought he needed time to cool off"
"And what you haven't seen him since?" Iris asked concerned for her friend
Damon shook his head, "I thought he was spending the night with Elena"
"Well where is he?" she muttered.
"I think I know" Damon said, just then Elena remerged he filled her in.
"Stay in the car" Damon ordered both girls, Iris nodded not wanting to go out it was pouring with rain, Elena and her were both adamant about coming along with Damon's recon mission.
"This is a nightmare, why would they take him?" Elena asked
"They probably want the grimoire or something" Iris answered and spotted a black figure running towards the car, it was Damon they were huddled underneath an umbrella
"Well what happened? Is he there?" Elena asked frantically
Damon replied through gritted teeth "He's there all right, but the woman who owns the house has been compelled not to let me in"
Iris groaned then her eyes lit up "We can go in though" she said she hadn't done this sort of thing in a while
"No you're not" Damon snapped grabbing her wrist
"No we can help" Elena insisted and also went to move past him but he stopped them, he shoved Iris and Elena both back
"Damon" Iris snapped glaring at him
"You are both not going in there" he said sternly, Iris brows furrowed and she scuffed the ground with the toe of her converse
"Well we can't just do nothing" Elena protested
"They could be doing god knows what to him" Iris muttered
"I've got an idea of someone who can help" he murmured and placed his hand on the small of Iris's back and pushed her towards the car, knowing that the raven head was far more stubborn then Elena
"Fine" Elena huffed and climbed into the car after Iris.
Iris frowned when she saw where they had pulled up
"The school?" she asked unsurely Damon didn't answer and got out of the car, Iris and Elena both exchanged confused looks but got out of the car trailing after the vampire
Iris could see that Damon clearly cared for his brother since she knew who he was going to go ask for help
"You're alive then" Damon commented. Alaric straightened up his eyes drifted over to Iris who gave him a small smile
"You can't hurt me" the history teacher stated
"I can hurt you"
Iris rolled her eyes and pinched Damon's arm making him hiss "Oww, what the hell?"
"You want his help, and you're threatening him" she replied in a furious whisper
"Fair point" Damon muttered
"We need your help" Elena stated and then explained what had happened
Both Iris and Damon stood back letting her do all the talking
"You seriously think he's going to help us?" Damon muttered to Iris
"Well he's a good man and Stefan is one of his students" iris defended the history teacher
"Are you forgetting that Stefan is a vampire?" he said
Iris shook her head and focused back to the Alaric and Elena's conversation
"Stefan told me about your ring" Elena said
"What about it?" Alaric asked
"Let me recap, you tried to kill me I defended myself and in turned killed you, and then according to my brother as well as little flower here" Iris scrunched up her nose at the nick name "your ring brought you back to life"
"You don't have to be an arse" Iris sighed leaning against the wall
"Do you have a tendency to name call me?" he smirked "not very mature now" he then ruffled her hair causing Iris to duck and attempted to evade him but he grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back
"You forgot the part where I attempt to kill you again" Alaric scowled and moved ahead,
"Ah, ah you forgot I have my human shield?" he smirked pulling Iris in front of him
"Why do you always use me?" she snapped
"Because you're cute, and very light therefore easy to move" he said and kissed her temple "No hard feelings though?"
"Arse" Iris repeated, making him chuckle
Elena however was still reasoning with the history teacher
"Mr Saltzman please" Elena pleaded "it's Stefan"
"I'm sorry Elena"
"Told you he wouldn't help" Damon muttered to Iris who rolled her eyes
"Shut up" she snapped "you're the one who killed him, do you wonder why he doesn't want to help?"
Damon's grip tightened for a split second and then released her, he moved so that he was next to the petite raven head
"That's a shame" he said casually "because the woman in charge could tell you where your wife is"
This caused the trio to turn and face him
"You're lying" Alaric frowned looking at the vampire
"Am I?" Damon shrugged and grabbed Iris's wrist "why don't you ask her yourself" but the man didn't move "coward"
Damon then tugged Iris towards the door with Elena on their heels
"Really calling him a coward? Do you want him to help us?" Iris whispered
"Ssh, it's all part of the plan" he told her, they were just at the door way when Alaric halted them
"Wait" he said and sighed looking at them "I'll go"
Iris and Damon waited as Alaric went to his car along with Elena, the former witch assumed that she was asking him about her birth mother
"So?" Iris rocked on the balls of her feet "you know-"
"You're not coming in with us" Damon cut her off, she pouted
"Why the hell not?" she demanded "I can fight-"
"Really?" he asked looking amused, and gave her a once over, she was petite and slender
"You look like you can barely raise a stake"
Iris scoffed "never underestimate people Damon" she folded her arms in front of her chest
"I'm coming in with you and Alaric, you guys need all that back up you can get"
Damon growled and surprised her by pinning her to the door of the car
"How do you expect me to get Stefan and protect you at the same time?" he snapped he wouldn't admit it out loud but he cared for the English girl
"Who said I needed protected" she snapped her emerald orbs turning a jade colour
"Honestly Iris" he leaned in close "if Stefan couldn't protect himself you think you could?"
She frowned not wanting him to divulge her secret from him ad remained tight lip
"You and Elena are going to stay in the car" he snapped and then tugged her back into the classroom, where Iris saw an impressive collection of weapons laid down on Alaric's desk
Elena looked between the two people and saw Iris cheeks were flushed but could tell that the girl wasn't embarrassed more like she was angry, but she was with Damon and that vampire irritating her beyond belief
"Whoa" Iris muttered walking towards the desk, she lightly touched what looks like a cross-brow "teacher by day and vampire hunter by night" Damon commented
Alaric glared at him "I have you to thank for that"
Iris knew he was talking about his wife and discreetly glanced at Elena who looked down; Iris lightly squeezed the taller girl's hand who gave her a shaky smile
"Just get me in and I'll get Stefan out" Damon said
Iris snorted "Seriously that's your plan? And I thought I had bad ones"
"That's it? Just take them on all by yourself?" Elena asked
"Well I'll be stealthier than that hopefully" Damon said sarcastically. Iris rolled her eyes and lightly tapped Elena's arm causing her to look at her, she picked up a vervaine dart, Elena nodded and picked one up as well
"What are you doing?" Alaric asked looking at the two teenage girls
"Well we're going with you" Elena replied
"No way" Damon shook his head "I already told Iris-"
"But you two need us" Iris snapped "we can cause a distraction and get Stefan out"
Elena nodded and squared her shoulders
"No, you both will get yourself killed" he snapped, Iris frowned
"What is it with men? They can't accept help from a woman" she muttered
Damon ignored her and Elena "So when you get me in, get out quick as you can"
"Damon-" Iris stomped her foot
"Fine" he growled "You two can drive the getaway car"
"That doesn't make sense" Iris shook her head, Alaric was secretly amused seeing someone so sweet looking getting under the vampire's skin
"I don't care" Damon snapped "I can't get distracted by you"
"Mr Saltzman-"
"Sorry Iris" she growled as Alaric and Damon walked ahead of them
"Oh now he's concerned about my safety but was using me earlier as a human shield" she muttered, Iris heard Elena sighing and smiled at the brunette
"Don't worry we'll get him back" she assured her, Elena smiled and nodded
Iris and Elena moved in to front seat of the car, Elena on the driver's side whilst she rode in the passenger
"Stay here" Damon ordered looking at the pair of them, "I mean it Iris"
Irish sighed but nodded she watched both Damon and Alaric go ahead towards the house; there was a tense silence between them, both was too nervous to speak.
Iris sighed and leant her head against window pane, she frowned when she saw Elena getting a vervaine dart out, she opened the car door and climbing out
"Whoa, Elena what are you doing"? Iris called climbing out of the same side
"I can't just sit here" she stated, Iris sighed and licked her lips
"Maybe we should listen to Damon" she suggested
"I'm going in there whether you like it or not" Elena ran off Iris sighed and followed after her.
Iris rounded the corner and saw Elena run down towards the basement; she rounded another corner but froze when she saw a vampire guarding the doorway
"Crap, crap, crap" she muttered and stiffened when the vampire head snapped up, she watched with wide eyes as he sniffed the air and gasped when his eyes met hers. Iris took a hurried step backwards and gripped the vervaine dart, she clenched her eyes shut but frowned when she felt nothing, and peeked one eye open and saw Damon standing behind the decapitated vampire.
"Iris" Damon growled storming towards her, she could see that he wasn't messing around, no he was deadly serious, she held up her hands
"I went to find Elena she ran off" she said quickly
Damon growled and gripped her by her upper arm and dragged her down the stairs
"We seriously need to talk about boundaries" he muttered, Iris scoffed Damon paused forcing Iris to stop
"What?" she asked looking at him.
"I can hear Elena" Damon stated and dragged Iris towards the basement where Elena's voice was coming from
"You shouldn't be here" Iris heard Stefan say he looked up when he saw Damon and Iris "and now you brought Iris" he muttered
"They were supposed to stay in the car" Damon said, Iris rolled her eyes and looked at him,
"Elena rope" Damon called Elena quickly cut Stefan down "Can you get him to the car?"
Elena nodded and helped Stefan up, they ran towards the exit, Iris saw Damon running the other way she followed after him
"What are you doing?" he snapped
"Making sure you don't get your arse handed to you on a platter" she said "Now come on" she grabbed his hand "come on"
"Go with Elena, Iris"
"Only if you come with me" when he didn't move "Then I'm not going either"
He opened his mouth about to argue but was suddenly slammed in to the wall by another vampire.
"Damon" she yelled and backed away when she saw the vampire leering at her
"Whose your friend?" he asked licking his lips "she smells delicious" Iris backed away seeing him coming towards her
"You will never know how she tastes" Damon snarled and grabbed the vampire from behind and slammed him into the wall. "IRIS RUN NOW!"
Iris gasped as more vampires appeared attacking Damon, Iris skirted around the edge looking around for a weapon, her eyes widened as she was suddenly slammed into a wall, she grunted in pain and felt a heavy weight atop her
"Oh you do smell delectable" the vampire's eyes redden and his fangs lengthened, Iris gripped tightly on to the dart and stabbed into his neck causing him shout in pain. She shoved him off of him and scrambled onto her feet but was off of them in the next half second.
"I want a taste" a tall brown haired vampire growled and grabbed her wrist
"NO LET GO" she shouted and gasped when there was a resounding sound of a gun going off, the vampire was off of her, she looked up and saw that it was Alaric, he reached down and easily pulled her onto her unsteady feet, he placed a hand on her shoulder
"I'm going after Frederick" Damon stated killing the final vampire and sped off, Iris went to run after him but Alaric grip tightened on her
"You're staying with me" he said
"It's not safe here either-"she saw another vampire heading towards Alaric "WATCH OUT"
He spun around and stabbed the vervaine dart into the vampire's neck.
Just then Damon came back looking angry
"He's gone" he snapped and looked at Iris "are you ok?"
"Yeah let's just get out of here" Iris grabbed his hand, he could see a small bruise forming on her temple and lightly prodded it, she hissed and batted his hand away
"I'm going to kill him" Damon growled and pulled her towards him
"Another time, let's just go" Iris insisted
Damon grabbed her hand and tugged Iris towards the front door with Alaric following closely behind
"Holy crap" Iris muttered seeing that the outside of the house was surrounded by vampires, Damon pulled her back into the house
"What are we going to do?" she asked looking at them men
Damon frowned and glanced back to Alaric "How many more of those darts do you have?" he asked
"One" he answered
"We're so screwed" she muttered
"No we're not" Damon said looking at her "Give her your ring"
Iris's eyes widened and shook her head when she saw Alaric taking his ring off
"No" she refused to take it "It's yours"
Damon growled and grabbed her wrist causing her to wince he used his other hand to grip her chin forcing her to look at him
"You haven't listen to me once today and look where's that got you" he snapped and took the ring off of ring, he forced it onto her finger
"Careful" Alaric snapped seeing the way he was handling her. "So that stuff you said about my wife was a lie?"
Iris could hear the disappointment in the history teacher's voice
"Yes" he stated
Just then a woman entered, Iris recognised her as one of the vampire's from the tomb
"Stop" she called halting all the vampires, Iris looked down and realised that she was clutching on to Damon's hand "What's going on here?" she entered along with Anna, Damon tugged Iris closer positioning her behind him "What did you do?"
"Me?" Damon asked in disbelief
"Your band of vampires spent the day torturing Stefan" Iris scoffed "and she's questioning us" she muttered causing Damon to snicker and Alaric's lips to twitch in amusement
The woman looked regal and composed to Iris, who was peeking around Damon slightly to see what was happening
"The parties who had partaken in this will be dealt with" the woman announced
Iris eyes widened as Damon held a knife up to the woman's throat
"Our arrangement doesn't work if you can't control them" Damon snarled, Alaric stood next to Iris
"This wasn't supposed to happen"
"Well it did" he moved back to Iris and gently grabbed her wrist and tugged the out of the door, Alaric had went ahead since he drove himself over "If I had a good side, that wouldn't be a way to get on it" with that Damon pulled Iris out of the door
"Get on" she had a confused look but it was soon cleared up when he crouched down in front of her, she clamoured on to his back and tucked her face in between his shoulder blades, she felt the wind whipping past her hair.
They arrived where Stefan and Elena were; Damon lowered Iris on to the ground and lightly gripped on to her arm to steady the slightly dizzy petite teen,
"You ok?" he asked amused seeing her hair was in a chaotic mess
"Yep, let's never do that again" she muttered he chuckled but nodded,
"Oh Iris" Elena launched herself into her arms causing the raven head to stumble back, bus she returned her hug, Iris looked over Elena's shoulder and saw Stefan who looked horrified. Elena pulled back and pinched Iris
"Oww, what the hell?" she hissed rubbing the sore spot
"Never do that again" the brunette scolded her she was worried out of her mind for the raven head
"Ok, let's go" she said
Iris sighed when she finally arrived home, she had learnt on the car journey that Elena had given Stephan her blood because he was going to die, and now the brunette was going to be spending the night with him, to clear several of their issues up.
Iris munched down an apple and turned her hallway lights on so she wouldn't bump into anything she needed to get change she thought. Iris dumped the apple core in the bin not getting use to calling the appliance trash, she turned her bedroom light on and changed into a pair of shorts that rested low on her slender hips and a loose thin shirt.
Iris skipped down her stairs and glanced at the time it was nearing ten in the evening. She was far too restless to go to sleep since she had spent most of yesterday asleep, she flicked the television on and paused that the film Titanic, and settled down to watch that, it was one of her favourites.
Two hours had passed and Iris was half asleep on the couch she was startled awake when there was a pounding on her front door
"Who is it?" she called and bit her lip when she got no reply, she grabbed her bat and held it up, she took a deep breath and wrenched the door open and frowned when she saw no one there, Iris stepped out of the porch frowning but screamed and swung her bat hard when someone jumped in front of her
"Argh" Damon yelled holding his head, blood was seeping from him "What the fuck-"
"Well who the hell jumps out from the bushes" she shouted back he groaned, Iris giggled causing him to glare at her "what you so deserved it" she drawled
Damon rolled his eyes a wicked smirk on his face, and ruffled her hair causing the petite girl to huff and pout, he loved riling her up she was adorable when she was.
"What are you doing here anyway?" she asked putting her bat down and moved passed him towards her porch swing, he dropped down beside her and placed him arm behind her
"I came here to check up on you"
Iris snorted at that "No seriously what are you doing here?"
Damon rolled his blue eyes and lightly nudged her "Really"
"So you're not going to go all psycho on me about the whole incident back there?"
Damon eyes narrowed "What about you sucking at following orders?"
She chuckled "I prefer to do things my way occasionally" she shrugged her shoulders that was true enough she had spent her life leading the light side to war.
"Hmm about that, don't do that again, when I tell you something it's usually because I don't want you dead"
A goofy smile spread across her face
"What?" he snapped, she grinned at him
"You like me" she stated clearly, he scoffed
"Pfft I-" he saw the look she was giving him making him roll his eyes "fine I do happy now?"
"Immensely" she drawled, he ruffled her hair she batted his hand away
"I find you bearable" he nodded
"Making me the one person in this town that you don't hate" she murmured "How's Stefan?"
"He's with Elena he's fallen off the wagon so to speak"
Iris frowned "Didn't he try to at least control his blood lust instead of shutting it down like that?"
Damon shook his head "No, that's the problem Stefan never learned to control it, he didn't want to go near human blood after he wiped out a whole village, he would black out and forget what he'd done but then when he does remember he would feel remorseful"
Iris jaw dropped at this "So we got a potential crazed vamp on the loose? Beside you of course"
"Possibly" Damon nodded and saw her yawning for the fifth time "You humans need your sleep"
"Well we're all not-"he placed his hand over her mouth
"Just go to bed" he leant forward and kissed her temple and then was gone, leaving Iris swinging on the porch swing on her own, she closed her eyes when she felt the breeze on her skin and looked up at the starry night, about five minutes later she headed inside.
Iris pulled the covers up and reached out to switch off the lamp she paused seeing Alaric's ring, she reminded herself to return that to him in the morning.
AN: Here's another chapter done thought I wouldn't be able to publish it since I had a hectic day, anyway thanks for the reviews so far hope you enjoyed it
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