"How is she?" Elena ran in to the hospital, tonight was turning out to be a nightmare John's been stabbed by Katherine and now Caroline was hurt and Damon killed Jeremy she was definitely not going to forgive him soon for that.
"I don't know they took her into surgery" Bonnie said feeling frantic she glanced over to Damon who spotted Jenna rushing towards them with Alaric
"I got your call" Jenna panted "I would-"
"I didn't call you" Elena shook her head,
"Yes you did" Jenna frowned
"No Jenna-"
"Ergh it's Katherine" just then Stefan came in and whispered something to Elena. Both vampires froze when they smelt an intoxicating scent
"What the-"
Elena gasped as a gurney was rushed passed them, several medics surrounded it
"Iris?"
Bonnie's eyes widened, the group ran after them
"Hey what happened?" Alaric asked seeing them shoving the gurney into a room, they could all see through the window
"I'm sorry sir I am not liberty to say" the doctor rushed out "I have to contact her family members-"
"We are her family" Stefan stepped forward
"Sorry sir-"
Damon intervened and compelled the man "we are her family so tell us what happened, as well as informing of us on any changes"
Neither Stefan nor Elena protested at Damon using compulsion
"Animal attack" the doctor replied in a monotone voice.
Everyone besides Jenna exchanged bewildered looks, knowing what that particular statement meant
"Oh my god, is she going to be ok?" Jenna asked staring at a very, very pale Iris whose white camisole was covered in blood
"She lost a lot of blood, she'll need a transfusion" the doctor hurried away, Stefan could see Iris's life source leaving her
"Oh my god" Jenna muttered, Alaric led her way he was also worried for his raven haired student
"It's Katherine" Elena spat hating that vampire more and more.
"Why would she return now?" Stefan mused quietly, Damon growled not really caring about the cold hearted bitch, he was more concerned for the small raven haired girl.
"Come on" Stefan led them to where Alaric and Jenna was waiting, now all they have to do was to see oof she pulled through or not.
"Family of Iris Potter" the doctor called out, they all stood up
"Well?" Damon demanded harshly, Jenna had left to go check up on Jeremy.
The doctor looked uncertainly at the group,
"Did you do the transfusion?" Elena asked she was literally on the edge, Bonnie fingers dug into her palm
"That's the problem, your friend doesn't have a blood type" he stated
"What?" Stefan asked stunned at this revelation
"You're friend-"
"We heard what you said" Damon snapped and looked through the window at Iris,
"How is that possible? Everyone has a blood type" Alaric piped in
"Well we can't locate it, so we've decided to use AB positive since that's the most standard blood type"
They saw the one of the nurses injected a cannula into Iris's hand and linked it with a blood bag.
"Where the hell am I?" Iris asked looked around, she realised that she was in the hospital and dressed in a hospital gown which was completely unflattering.
She heard familiar voices and followed the sound and smiled in relief seeing who was there
"Damon, Stefan" she grinned and was confused when they didn't acknowledge her presence "Elena, Bonnie" she called and frowned she moved in front of the group and jumped up and down but got nothing, Iris gasped looking down at her hand, she was translucent
"Holy Merlin" she said as she followed the groups gaze, she walked through the wall and saw herself looking dead lying in a bed and felt as is her skin was on fire.
"They can't hear you" a voice commented causing her to jump. She spun around and saw a tall imposing figure
"What? How- wait who are you?" Iris asked the man, he merely chuckled
"Oh come on now, I'm quiet offended by that, we've met several times in the past" he smirked, he was handsome with his bronze hair and grey eyes, when she shook her head his smirk widened "well let me remind you, the last time I saw you was on the battlefield, but it's been a while since our first encounter….no? well I'll introduce myself again….I'm Death"
"What's going on?" Bonnie shouted and gasped when Iris looked as if she was having a fit. Blood poured out of her mouth and she shook so much that the cannula was tugged out of her vein
"Hold her head" one of the doctors shouted,
Stefan and the others watched tensed
"Stefan" Elena whimpered seeing her friend in this state he wrapped his arms around her
"I think she's having a reaction to the blood" Stefan said low enough for only Damon to hear they could see the doctors and nurses surrounding the unconscious teen
"We're losing her, get the crash trolley"
Iris watched wide eye as they pulled down the gown and laid two pieces of rubber
"Come on, come on" she muttered seeing them shocking her, she cried out and clutched her chest "What's happening?" she gasped looking back at Death "are you here to take me away?"
She was surprised when he chuckled "No my dear, I cannot, you see fate intervened the first time over a thousand years ago, and then again when you was in battle, I can no longer touch you, fore that's your curse is in not?"
Iris looked at him, her brows furrowing, these cryptic messages would definitely be the end of her "I-I don't understand"
"No rhythm"
Elena and Bonnie had tears running down there faces
Stephan and Damon stood tense as one of the nurses started chest compression
"She doesn't have a blood type" Damon hissed concerned for the English girl
"Vampire blood, perhaps that would work" Stefan said, Bonnie glared at him
"No this was a vampire's fault in the first place" she hissed
"It's Iris-"
"Plus she needs to have a heartbeat before you even tried it" Damon remarked his brows furrowed and felt an ache in his chest when he couldn't hear Iris's steady heartbeat
"No pulse" she heard the doctor yell
"Damn it to hell, bloody bitch Katherine is" Iris swore and cried out again in pain when they shocked her again using the defibrillator on her. Death walked up to her, so that they stood side by side
"Things will become clearer over time, they are coming, they know, we won't meet again"
"WAIT. WAIT" Iris shouted
"Goodness woman no need to scream" Death smirked, he oddly reminded her of Damon
"Is this real, or is it all just happening in my head?"
"Could be both" he shrugged and grinned when she pouted "either way it doesn't matter does it? It happened, but I'm not so sure you'll remember this" and with that he faded away.
"Call it?" the doctor said looking around at the other medics, still not getting a pulse
"No" Elena shouted "Please there's got to be something else" tears running down her face,
Stefan and Damon both had a lump in their throats
"There's one last thing"
"I want to get back in my body" Iris shouted, she was a fighter and she wouldn't be giving up and then jumped towards her body just as the doctor plunged a needle into her chest she felt a warm light erupt all over her body.
"Thank god" Elena muttered seeing Iris abruptly sitting up on the bed gasping for breath, her eyes met Damon before they rolled back into her head and fell unconscious, the doctors hurried around her.
"What happened?" Elena asked immediately as the doctor exited the room. Damon saw one of the nurses wiping away the dry blood off of her skin, whilst another doctor placed a tube down her throat
"She had a severe reaction from the blood we've given her" he wiped his sweaty brow
"We can see that" Damon rolled his eyes Elena and Bonnie both sent him a dirty look
"Anyway she's in critical condition and her body is not producing enough blood to pump around her body" he paused "we put her in a medical induced coma to see if she stabilizes"
"So we just wait?" Stefan asked tensed and concerned like the others
"I'm afraid so" the doctor sigh "it'll be touch and go for a while"
Damon's jaw ticked at that, come on flower he thought after all the crap she's been and especially tonight he knew she was strong enough to pull her throat.
The doctor went to walk away but at the last minute
"I don't want to mislead you but there's a chance that she won't wake up" he said gravely
"Fucking Katherine" Damon slammed his fist through the hospital wall.
Elena paced up and down in the waiting room whilst Bonnie was sitting down, they were now waiting to hear news on Caroline, and she sighed seeing Liz Forbes returning
"How is she?" Elena asked as Bonnie stood up beside her
"It's not looking good" the woman's voice shook "she's in critical condition, I'm sorry" she walked away.
"Oh my god, this is a nightmare" Elena cried
"It doesn't have to be" Damon said appearing behind her "my blood can heal her"
"And Iris?"
"There's always enough" he said looking at her, Elena glanced over to Bonnie who remained tight lip, when the witch saw the state of her close friend and finally relented
"Fine, but no one else should get hurt" Bonnie said and walked off.
Damon nodded and headed towards the blond girl's room.
"No you side step, don't move forward" Elijah scolded her getting frustrated
She huffed and glowered at him
"Really, haven't you heard the saying patience is a virtue?" Iris commented
Elijah looked at her completely expressionless "No"
Iris rolled her eyes
"Now Iris that isn't very lady like is it?" she heard a familiar annoying voice, and saw the source
"Nicklaus, don't you have a pony to ride?" she huffed, he cocked an eyebrow
"At the moment no, but perhaps you can ride me-"
"Ew no, you're disgusting not at all acting like a-"
"Gentlemen?" he mocked "keep saying it love, it's not like I haven't heard of it before with 'father' around" he spat.
"Nicklaus" Elijah placed his hand on the blond boy's shoulder. Iris's eyes soften at him knowing things between Nicklaus and Mikael, she never understood the older man's obvious hatred towards his son
"Nic" she called causing deep blue eyes to meet her emerald ones "fancy a match? Or are you too scared?"
Nicklaus smirked "never too scared love, oh looks like we have an audience"
Iris looked around and saw Rebecca, Finn and Kohl all gathering around
"Really brother? You're challenging Iris, it looks like a strong wind would knock her over" Finn smirked
"You're a pig" she snapped, Rebecca giggled at the display and glanced between Iris and Nicklaus, she knew that there was something between to the pair, even if they were oblivious to it
"Never underestimate a woman brother" Rebecca drawled as both Iris and Nicklaus got into a fighting stance "It won't end well"
"Don't you have to help mother in the kitchen" Nicklaus called, Iris cheeks flushed in anger at that whilst the men were all laughing.
"Ready"? Iris asked
"Always ready for you love" he winked at her, causing her heart to skip a beat. She steeled herself as he lunged towards her, she easily side stepped in causing him to hit the muddy ground
"And you made fun of me" she commented smirking, Nicklaus growled and raised his sword.
Damon arrived at Iris's room and could her heartbeat which was weak and slow. He looked over at her, he could see a bandage on the side of her head and she was worryingly pale. He had compelled the nurse to give him a cannula and an empty bag, his boots echoed around the silent room and he dropped down in the empty seat beside her bed,
"That bitch did a number on you" he muttered seeing her heavily bandaged neck, he lightly ran his fingers down her cheek brushed aside several stray curls.
He sighed and grabbed the tube that linked the empty bag, he bit down into his wrist and shoved the tube in the punctured hole, and saw his thick liquid blood travelling down the tube into the bag, it was filling up.
When Damon saw that the bag was now filled to the brim with his blood, he grabbed the cannula and inserted the needle into her vein and plugged the tube in and set it up next to the IV drip, he stood and looked at her monitor, he could hear the obvious change in her heart rate, he frowned so vampire blood does work on her but a human blood transfusion didn't? Things were certainly getting interested with Iris.
AN: Another chapter, hopefully some of you guys can pick up the hints with what Iris's reason for being an 'abomination' is. Remember Iris was exiled away from the magical world, hence she won't have a wand anymore as it was snapped. but as you obviously can see she still does possess some magic.
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