Iris ran towards the large building and saw that it was on fire, she ran round the back hoping for an easier way to get in. She spotted a back door, and it was oblivious of someone else was in there as well, she went to tear the door open but was stopped
"NO don't go in" Bonnie shouted, grabbing her arm pulling her away
"Bonnie what the hell?" Iris shouted ripping her arm away from her
"You can't go in there Iris" Bonnie screamed as Iris ran back towards the door, Bonnie ran after her
"I can" she shouted "Damon's in there"
"Let him go Iris, they all deserved this, they're set on ripping the town apart" Bonne hissed, Iris emerald eyes hardened
"Bonnie look around" she gestured towards the town "It's already in chaos, you're just as bad as they are"
"No I'm not, I don't set out to kill people-"
"Then what the hell are you doing now" Iris shrieked "they were humans too Bonnie, probably a long time ago but they were"
She turned her back and went to open the door
"Iris, let him go, let Damon go"
Iris felt tears well up, she looked over her shoulder at the witch
"I can't he is my friend, and they're important to me" with that Iris ran into the burning building, she coughed up smoke pursued in her mission and stepped over some vampires and ran downstairs.
Iris wretched a door opened and was immediately met by flames, she stumbled back but could hear pained groans coming from the room
"DAMON" she shouted and ran in, she jumped over several bodies she could feel the heat on her skin "DAMON"
She spotted the rave haired vampire crouching, her heart stilled when she heard him groaning in pain,
"No, no" she muttered and fell down beside him, she grabbed his face "Damon, come on snap out of it" she was relieved when he opened his eyes "Thank god, I thought you were gone"
"I told you to go home"
"No time for a lecture, and do you honestly think I would listen" she snapped and stood up and grabbed his arm trying to pull him up but to no avail "please Damon you're too heavy" she whispered and crouched down, her tears hit his face, he smiled grimly and reached up with a soot covered hand
"Never had a girl cry for me" he muttered
"Damon" she whimpered "please get up, please" he tugged her down and hugged her kissing her cheeks, she moved slightly up so that her curls cascaded around them creating a dark curtain
"Iris, just go" he groaned coughing loudly, she shook her head "please"
"No, I'm not going to lose another person" she cried pressing her face into his shoulder, he felt her body shaking
"Iris, go"
"No, I am not leaving you"
"I'm not worth it" he snapped
"You are" she yelled, his eyes softened he raised his hand and stroked her soot covered cheek.
"Iris" she turned her head and saw Stefan when she felt a whoosh of air behind her.
"Stefan get her out of here" Damon coughed pushing Iris away
"I told you-"
"Come on" Stefan grabbed Damon and pulled Iris towards him, she closed her eyes feeling the wind hitting her.
Iris fell down on the floor taking huge gulps of air.
"Iris, I'm so going to kick your ass" Damon growled "what was you thinking?"
He had dragged her on to his lap, not caring that Bonnie, Elena and Stefan were watching.
"What I was thinking? I didn't want you to be burnt to a crisp" she sighed and sagged against him.
"Oh my god Iris" Elena ran forward and hugged her hard "never do that again" she could hear the petite girl wheezing slightly "Come on you need to get checked out" Elena tugged her out of Damon's hold.
Iris stumbled onto her feet, the brunette wrapped an arm around her to support her, Iris looked over her shoulder and saw Damon watching her he sent her a small smile which she returned.
Iris was currently sitting on a gurney with an oxygen mask on, the EMT were prodding her
"I said I was fine" she snapped pulling the mask off getting irritated by the man and jumped off the gurney. She looked around and felt her pockets frowning when she couldn't find her keys
"Bloody hell" she muttered and walked towards her ford
"I think you'll need these" Stefan said dangling her keys in front of her face,
"Thanks Stef" she smiled and took hold of them
"Iris, what you did tonight was completely careless" he scolded her, she sighed and smiled at him
"And if it was you I would still do the same, you Salvatores are good people and I like having both you and Damon around" she said.
Stefan's lips broke out into a smile "You're a wonderful friend" he surprised her by pulling her into a hug; she felt his warmth encompassed him. Stefan breathed in her scent and felt his fangs beginning to drop, he pushed the monster inside him aside, and this was Iris his friend certainly not a meal
"You should get home and cleaned up, you're covered in soot" he said pulling back.
Iris rolled her eyes "You certainly have a way with words Mr Salvatore" she drawled.
He chuckled and walked her to her car.
For the second time night Iris pulled into her driveway.
She climbed out of her car and patted down her pockets looking her keys she pulled them out and unlocked her door. Iris slammed the door shut behind her. Iris kicked off her shoes and looked in the mirror that was located near her door and saw that Stefan's words were true, she was covered in soot she really needed a shower.
Iris walked upstairs turning her lights on and headed into the bathroom. She turned the shower faucet on and stripped out of her ashen covered clothes.
She stepped into the shower and sighed when the hot water hit her body; she lathered up the washcloth and scrubbed herself as well as washing her hair.
Once she was clean she dried herself off and rummaged through her closet slipped on her underwear and bra. Iris looked through the bottom of drawer pulling out a pair of flannel shorts and a camisole. She towel dried her hair and padded barefooted downstairs feeling parched from the night's events.
She poured herself a glass of water but froze when she heard a thump outside, she frowned and moved towards the front door, Iris jumped out of her skin when she heard a large pounding on her front door, but recalled who had did the exact same stunt earlier
"Bloody Damon" she swore and decided not to attack the vampire with her bat. She wrenched the door opened and saw no one there.
"Damon you're not funny" Iris yelled stepping out onto the porch, her head snapped towards the left when she hear a twig snapping "Damon I'm so going to kick your arse"
She tensed when there was no reply last time he'd jumped out at her but now nothing,
"Damon?" she called looking around
"I'm afraid it's not Damon" a female voice drawled she turned around and jumped, confusion marred at her face seeing who was there
"Elena?"
"Not quiet" she smirked, an expression that never came across Elena's face
"What-"before she could blink the female was gone, Iris spun around feeling a whoosh of air behind her and then all of a sudden felt an explosion of pain on the side of her head and then blackness invaded her vision.
Iris groaned her eyes slowly opened, was she dreaming or something? Her bed wasn't definitely this uncomfortable. It took her a moment to realised that was she was in the middle of a dark road surrounding by trees
"What the hell?" she winced when there was a steady pounding in her head, she reached up to her head and felt a warm steady liquid, Iris pulled her hand back and saw they were covered in blood. "brilliant, don't even have shoes on" she muttered.
She scrambled onto her feet and walked down the empty road, wondering what the hell was going on? She wracked through her mind attempting to recall what had occurred before she blacked out, she remembered Elena but wait…she recalled her saying 'not quiet'
"Holy shit" Iris muttered pausing in the middle of the road, she felt stray stones digging into her feet, the only person who perfectly resembled the Gilbert teenaged girl was "Katherine"
She jumped when she heard someone clapping
"Bravo" Katherine smirked approaching the smaller girl, "and it's taking the others longer to figure that out"
"What are you doing back here?" Iris frowned folding her arms in front of her chest
"Hmm…how about it's none of your business, you and Damon are awfully sweet with one another" Iris tensed as the female vampire tugged one of her raven curls "you have both Salvatore boys wrapped around your little finger, just like I did"
Iris felt her heart pounding in her chest no doubt that Katherine could hear it,
"Yeah but there's an obvious difference between us" Iris spat, Katherine smirked amused at the teenager in front of her.
"Oh what's that?" she drawled
"I'm not a total bitch" Iris eyes hardened she saw the smirk on her face dropped
"You snarky little cow" Katherine growled, Iris clenched her teeth and hissed when the vampire fisted her hand in her raven locks, she whispered darkly into her ear
"I've heard legends about you, a true abomination of nature I think one cryptic description said" Iris shuddered feeling her lips against her throat, she bent her neck revealing the column of her throat "you want to know what another myth says about you?" she cooed into her ear, Iris gripped on to Katherine's hand trying pry them off of her but it wasn't working.
"That your blood taste delicious, no other creature would taste like you, hmm I fancy a taste"
Iris eyes widened hearing the words and watched in horror as she saw Katherine's morphing into a demonic look, she saw the fangs protruding
"You don't want to do this" Iris cringed when she felt her nails digging into the soft neck of her flesh
"I really want to" she smirked and sunk her fangs into Iris's throat.
Iris let out an agonized scream that echoed all around, she could hear Katherine slurping down her blood.
Iris swayed if it weren't for Katherine's grip on her she would be on the floor, the former witch attempted to fight feeling the burning pain on her neck. Iris's arms started to grow heavy she felt the world fading away,
"Stop" she whispered then her eyelids began to drift shut.
Katherine dropped the limp body onto the ground; she had more than her feel she knelt down beside the motionless teenager
"They were right you are absolutely delicious" Katherine smirked and wiped her mouth, she licked her fingers clean and could hear the weak heartbeat coming from the girl, she didn't take enough blood for her to kill but enough to put her life in serious danger, or so she thought.
Katherine's ears perked up hearing a car coming down the road, she heard the blond girl Caroline? Talking, perfect she thought, part two of plan was going into motion, with one last glance at Iris who was losing a steady amount of blood and was unconscious in the middle of the road she fled.
Caroline drove down the dark road having just returning from the founders day, she sung to the music and saw that thee road was cleared she took that chance to fiddle with the radio, but before her fingers could touch the dial, something whooshed in front of her vision sending her spinning
She swerved when she saw a motionless figure on the road and ended up smashing into a tree.
AN: Season one is finally over so you know what that means (hopefully)
I don't have a regular update schedule, most days there would be new chapters, except Thursday, on and to clear things up Iris is definitely not a vampire she's
something else entirely different, stay tuned to find out.
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