Iris was woken up by the shrill sound of her alarm, but groaned and slammed her hand down on it shutting it up. Iris rolled over and fell back asleep. She was woken up again a couple of hours later by her cell ringing.
"Hello?" sleepiness laced in her tone
"Iris, how are you?" she recognised it as Stefan
"I'm fine, how's Caroline?" she asked sitting up making the sheets pool around her waist
"She's getting there, listen Damon told me about what Bonnie said Elena's-"
"Should leave it" Iris frowned "I'm over it, anyway what's up?"
Stefan noted the change in subject and knew it was Iris's way of telling him that she didn't want to talk about it
"I just wanted to remind you about coming over at one"
Iris glanced over to the time and saw that it was nearing noon. "Ok, see you then" she hanged up and rolled out of bed and started to get ready.
Iris rummaged through her closet and decided to wear a pair of skinny light washed jeans and pared it with a cap sleeve floral top. She hurriedly brushed her hair and tied it up into a messy bun. She slipped on a pair of white converses and quickly laced it up, Iris ran downstairs and made herself something to eat.
Iris grabbed her keys and headed out towards her car. She buckled herself in and pulled out of her driveway.
Iris sighed she leant back in her seat, her, Stefan, Elena and Damon were gathered in the main room of the boarding house.
"You lied to me" Iris snapped slapping Damon on the arm "you said you knew wha-" he cut her off by placing his hand over her mouth
"Hush, flower for someone so small you do sure make a lot of noise" Damon smirked, Iris bit his hand causing him to pull his hand back "Oh feisty, I like that, now you took a bite out of me do I get to return the favour" he grinned wagging his eyebrows
"Are you done?" Alaric snapped "anyway why would I know anything about the Lockwoods?" he asked
Iris faced him and glanced over to Elena and Stefan who looked like they didn't have a clue as well.
"Well you wouldn't" Damon took a swig of his drink "But you're vampire wife might"
Iris cocked an eyebrow wondering how would Elena's biological mother would know, she reached forward and grabbed her drink taking a sip of the cool liquid.
Damon had attempted to pour some bourbon in it earlier, but Stefan snatched it away before she could even take a sip and replaced it with a glass of juice much to her dismay, this caused the older Salvatore to brand Stefan as a buzz kill and muttered something about wanting to see a drunk Iris.
"What he means" Elena spoke "is that she researched in this town, does she have anything?"
"Isobel's research on Mystic Falls, was based on folklore and legends" Alaric told the group, Iris rested her elbows on her knees listening "I thought most of it was fiction"
"Like the amazing vampire story?" Damon smirked, Iris rolled her eyes and elbowed him "Hey, what the hell was that for?" he snapped
"You have to antagonize everyone don't you?" she asked rhetorically and then focused back on to the history teacher
"Apart from vampires in her research" Stefan cut in not wanting to drag this out "did she mention anything else?"
"There was the lycanthrope"
Iris eyes widened "You mean werewolves?" she asked knowing that they were definitely real since she had been close to one.
"Werewolves? They're real?" Elena asked in disbelief
"Why not?" Iris shrugged her shoulders "you already know vampires exist and witches"
"Good point" Elena muttered still stunned that these creatures of the night do exist.
"Why the Lockwoods though?" Iris asked confused
"Well vervaine didn't affect the mayor on founders day, but the Gilbert device did" he said, Iris swallowed the last drops of her drink and put it back on to the table
"We're hoping Isobel's research could help us figure this out" Elena said, Iris hummed lightly in thought
"Well it's in Duke and-"
"Could we go there?" Iris asked wanting to know if the woman found out anything else.
"I agree with flower, we should go there see if this wolf man thing is true" Damon said standing up
Alaric shrugged his shoulders "Well she's still declared as missing, but you can get access if I'm there"
Iris jumped up off of her seat
"We leave in an hour" Alaric stood up
"Road trip, ready my little flower? I'll make it exciting for you since it's your first one" Damon smirked
Iris scoffed "I'm not sitting next to the pervert" she said loudly group Stefan chuckled and grabbed her hand
"Come on, I got some food from the morning"
Iris swallowed down her glass of juice and grinned when Stefan and Elena entered the kitchen but it faltered when she saw the grim looks on their faces
"What? Aren't you guys ready?" she looked between the pair
Elena sighed "Iris, you know Caroline needs all the friends she can get-"
"Yeah so-"
"So I'm staying" Stefan said
Iris frowned "Wait me Elena have to go on alone with Damon whose very perverted-"
"Alaric will be there" Stefan cut her off
"Hmm sure, it's probably good having a vampire around with her" Iris jumped off of the stool "But, Stef I was looking to our first road trip together"
He chuckled; both were oblivious to Elena's face
"I'll buy you some candy floss"
Iris rolled her eyes "Buying me candy? I'm not that easy" she walked off, leaving behind a bemused Elena
"I thought she liked candy floss" the vampire muttered looking confused
"Really Stefan? Attempting to buy Iris off with candy?" Elena said.
Iris paced up and down the gravel path waiting for Damon and Elena, Alaric was looking at something in his trunk, she looked up and spied Damon and Elena hissing to one another, she didn't let her mind rest on it, Iris wasn't interested in her and the Salvatore boys love triangle, she knew in the end one of those three will end up with a broken heart
Iris walked around to her history teacher and peeked around his shoulder seeing his stash of impressive weapons
"Really Ric? We're not going into battle" she said amused
Alaric rolled his eyes "No, but I believe in being prepared for the unexpected"
Iris nodded clearly understanding that knowledge, "by any chance were you in…what's the word the… scouts?"
Alaric chuckled "You've got that right" he unlocked the car "get in"
Iris climbed into the back, she was joined by Elena whilst Damon got in the front, Iris glanced between the pair there was a stony silence Iris cleared her throat
"So…" she drawled "weather's getting better"
Alaric snorted "Is that you're attempt at-"
She cut him off by kicking the back of his seat
"Alright Elena, sometimes I do stupid things without thinking" Damon said
"That's your apology?" Elena said in disbelief,
Iris leant forward so she could whisper to Ric "And you thought my attempt at starting a conversation sucks, the vamp next to you can't apologise for crap"
"Iris" Damon snapped, whilst Alaric chuckled as did Elena officially breaking the tense silence in the car.
"Are we there yet?" Iris asked she was utterly bored
"Yes" Damon snapped
"Liar" Iris declared loudly, waking Elena up in the process,
"I swear flower if you don't shut-"
"What are you gonna do?" she asked folding her arms in front of her chest, he turned around in his seat and flashed his fangs at her,
"Ric-"
"Damon cut it out" Alaric snapped he was on the edge of his nerves, for the last couple of hours both Iris and Damon being annoying each other
"We're here" Alaric said sounding immensely relieved, before Iris knew what was happening Damon had used his vampire speed and opened the door since she was leaning on it Iris was sent tumbling down onto the ground. Damon laughed
"You're an arse" Iris mumbled, the vampire smirked
"I guess I win then" he held out his hand for her to take, but she ignored it and got up onto her own feet she pushed past him.
"Come on" Elena scolded "behave" she followed after Alaric
Both Damon and Iris looked at one another making a face and followed their companions.
"Excuse me" Iris saw a woman approaching them, she'd just managed to catch the last few words of Alaric's sentence "Hi, I'm Alaric I called earlier"
The woman nodded, the raven head noticed she was looking rather intently at Elena, Alaric seeing the woman looking at the group, and cleared his throat
"These are my friends Iris, Elena and Damon" he smiled
Iris hid her laughter hearing the term friend and Damon in the same sentence coming from Alaric, Elena sniggered
"I know" the brunette muttered, both teenaged girls shook with silent laughed, Damon elbowed Iris earning a squeal from her.
"Go" Damon ordered her lightly pushing her so that she was next to Alaric.
"Isobel's office is right through" she pointed towards a doorway as they approached it "she was one of my professors she's brilliant, she's one of the reasons I got into folklore" she unlocked the door and stepped aside allowing them in. Iris stepped in and the lights flickered on revealing a large office where the walls were lined with books
"Feel free to look around" she said "I'll be back"
Iris was barely paying attention
"Iris you ok?" Alaric asked the petite teen literally ran over to the shelves of books
"Am I ok?" she asked her eyes bright "Ric look at all these books" she grinned,
Alaric shook his head thinking she was the only teen he knew that could get this excited about books.
"Wow" Iris spotted a book that mentioned witches and there trials. She set about pulling it out but before she could there was the sound of something being triggered and a grunt of pain, she spun around and saw Damon with an arrow in the middle of his back, and he was standing in front of Elena
Alaric was much quicker on the uptake then Iris, he immediately detained the girl
"What just happened?" Iris asked as Elena set about pulling the arrow out of the vampire's back, she rolled her eyes as Damon and Elena arguing back and forth about what to do with the girl.
Iris turned her attention back to the book shelf, and frowned spotting a book about legends and prophecies, she plucked it up from the shelf and flicked through it she froze when she came across her name, she quickly skimmed it turning her back on the others and read it, her brows furrowed when she read about the triumphant victory in the wizarding world it was familiar to the one that Dumbledore had told her about, but she was confused by the last verse
A creature that came to smite the Dark Lord,
But that's not all she is
The creature of light has a past
Like any of us do, as she triumphs soon enough fate will bring her back to the start
Where she returns to the one she left behind
More than a century ago
Iris looked over her shoulder and saw Damon, Alaric and Elena was busy with the woman. She tore the page from the book and shoved it into her pocket, she shoved the book back into the shelf and saw that the woman handing something over to Elena
"I don't know about werewolf mythology in Mystic Falls, but here this might help" Iris stepped up next to Elena who had taken hold of a book
"What's it about?" Iris asked curiously
"It has everything from Scandinavian skin walkers to the Merchal de Retz" she said,
Iris wasn't that interested in the book, partly due to the fact she had spent the last six years studying these creatures "which probably translates to the curse of the sun and the moon"
"Sun and the Moon?" Iris repeated wondering what the hell that was, she had never heard about that before come to think it she had never heard of the origins of vampires nor werewolves.
"It's native America" Alaric said bringing Iris back to reality
"Aztec, essentially it explains the origin of werewolf curse in Virginia-"
"Werewolf curse?" Iris frowned at that, Remus had been bitten that's why he turned but now according to this woman it was a curse? Affecting those who bare the genes of a werewolf, she shook her head accepting the turn of events anything was possible she knew that.
"Short story is, that the Aztecs were plagued by vampires and werewolves, they terrorized countryside and so much more"
Iris frowned this didn't make sense at all, the whole sun and the moon lore something was definitely up she thought.
They were now seated on the couches that was situated in the office
"Cut it out" Iris hissed as the vampire tugged one of her curls
"What?" she glared at him and inched away when poked her she stomped her small foot down on his, causing him to groan, she grinned as he glared at her
"Seriously behave" Elena snapped at them,
"He started" Iris mumbled
"Real mature" Damon scoffed
"Damon!" Elena snapped making him frown, Iris sent him a smirk but the look she got from Ric caused it to falter
"Sorry, these two hardly go out this is very exciting for them" Elena said keeping a straight face, both Damon and Iris jaws dropped
"Cow" she muttered, the vampire nodded
"Carry on" Alaric suggested
The woman looked between the dark haired people and shook her head.
"Anyway they caused trouble till an Aztec Shaman cursed them. Making vampires slaves to the sun and werewolves servants to the moon, as a result vampires could only go out at night whilst Werewolves could only turn during the full moon"
Iris looked up seeing Damon standing up moving towards the bookshelf, she paled slightly seeing him to go the area where she had found that book.
"So can werewolves control when they transform?" Damon asked, Iris let out a quiet relieved breath seeing him move away.
"If they could transform whenever, why would it be a curse?" Iris asked Damon, Alaric snickered seeing a hundred sixty something vampire getting owned by teenaged girl
"She's right" the woman said "Werewolves will attack humans but they hardwired to hunt their prey which are vampires"
Damon snorted "if werewolves are hunting vampires then I would know about"
Iris scoffed, whilst Elena rolled her eyes
"There aren't many werewolves left" the woman said, Iris nodded coming to realisation that she had only met two in England "vampires had hunted them to almost near to extinction"
Iris eyebrows shot up to her hairline "Why? Besides the obvious rivalry"
"Well according to legends a werewolf bite to a vampire is fatal"
There was a moment of silence
"It seems you're not on top of the food chain Damon" Iris murmured, the vampire merely smirked
From the corner of her eye she saw Elena's head shot up,
"Has any research been done on doppelgangers?" Elena asked, the raven head knew that's one of the main reasons probably one of the only reasons she came along was for that.
"A little, the term doppelganger means a typical living breathing double of oneself"
"So is there any connection between Elena and Katherine?" Iris asked standing up needing to stretch her legs they were beginning to cramp up
"No that's all she had on Katherine" she shook her head "but there was something else mentioned, doppelganger usually torment people they look like, has she started?"
"That's an understatement" Iris said and rubbed her throat "Bloody cow tore my throat open"
She sighed and moved back over to the shelves tuning out there conversation, she reached up and grabbed a book flipping through the pages
"Iris"
She jumped "damn it Ric, don't do that"
"Sorry" he chuckled "you've been staring at that book for a while"
"Hmm, it's interesting" she shrugged her shoulders and went to put it back in its place but before she could Alaric grabbed it
"Keep it" he said quietly and forced it into her hands "It's not like she'll be using it"
Iris was miffed "My history teacher is encouraging me to steal a book?"
"Yeah, now come on we're leaving consider it as a gift for being my best student"
Iris felt a lump form in her throat but she pushed it down and hugged him tightly
"Thank you Ric" she whispered
He smiled and returned her hug "No problem, now let's go Elena and Damon are waiting at the car"
Iris looked around and saw to her surprise that both Damon and Elena were gone
"How the hell-"
"You were looking at the books for a while" Alaric said "now come on"
Iris groaned as she finally arrived at home, she jogged up her porch steps she didn't take notice when the Gilbert's porch light turned on she had just shoved her key into the lock when Jenna called her making her jump
"Merlin Jenna give me a heart attack why don't you?" she asked, Jenna chuckled glad that she had catch the raven head
"I'm glad I caught you" Jenna stated, Iris cocked an inky eyebrow
"Oh, what can I do for you?" she asked leaning against the door
"I was wondering what are you doing tomorrow?" she asked, Iris frowned it was a Sunday, like most of her weekends she hardly did anything
"Erm… nothing" she said and looked curiously at her "Why?"
A wide smile spread across the blond woman's face "Well I'm having a barbeque and I want you to come-"
"Oh but I can't I-"
"You're coming" Jenna, Iris could obviously tell that the woman wouldn't be taking no for an answer,
"You're going to literally drag me out regardless whether I agree or not, aren't you?" she folded her in front of her chest
"That's the spirit dear; I'll see you tomorrow swing by around two?"
Iris nodded smiling at her
"Great see you tomorrow" Jenna grinned waltzing off her porch
"There's always some function in this bloody town" Iris muttered, shaking her hair sending her curls swinging. She shoved her door behind her and locked it, Iris heard her stomach grumbled loudly and decided to make something easy to eat.
Iris sighed heading up to bed feeling the day's events catching up to, she had just changed into a pair of flannel shorts, just as she picked up her jeans she remembered the page she tore out of the book earlier that day. Iris dumped her jeans on a nearby chair and smoothed it out; the words were beaming out to her,
'Soon fate will bring her back to the start' her brows furrowed wondering what on earth could that mean?
Did she have unknown ties to Mystic Falls, she shook her head and decided to push it to the back of her mind, Iris folded her the worn out paper and placed it at the bottom of her drawer, with one last glance she crawled into bed, her mind muddling through the words, she sighed and reached over to turn her lamp off. Unknown to her, Iris's adventures certainly weren't over as this was the start of something entirely new.
With a sigh she snuggled into her blankets to ward off the chill, thinking was there any chance that perhaps one day she would be snuggled next to a warm body, emerald eyes slowly closed and soon she was lost in the world of dreams.
Iris looked at Remus Lupin; her blood ran cold when she saw him embracing the man who had sold her parents out to Voldemort, like they were long lost brothers
"I DON'T BELIVE IT" Herminie shrieked, Iris remained still looking at the professor and the escape convict
"You-you"
"Hermonie let me explain" Lupin said looking frantic
"You and him-"
"Hermonie calm down"
"I didn't tell anyone, I've been covering for you" Hermonie shouted, Iris knew what she was talking about
Iris shook her head "I thought I could trust you" she whispered looking wide eye at the pair,
"You can" Remus insisted
"No how can I?" she asked backing away till her back hit the wall "you've been his friend this entire time" tears ran freely down her face
"You're wrong, I haven't been his friend for twelve years…but now I am. Let me explain" he insisted
"No" Hermonie screamed shaking her head, Iris was slightly miffed at her friend since the bushy haired girl was the most rational one out of them. "Iris don't trust him, he wants you dead too, he's working for Black, he's a werewolf"
"I know" Iris said making all the rooms occupants look at her
"You know? Since when?" Remus frowned wondering why she didn't tell him "why didn't you say anything?"
"Because it was your secret, I worked it out after Snape gave us that essay" she revealed
"You're just like your mother" Black breathed staring at her; Iris looked away not wanting to meet his grey silvery orbs.
"You're right, I am a werewolf" Lupin nodded, Ron grabbed his bloodied leg and made an effort to move away
"Enough" Black yelled causing Iris to jump, "I've been waiting twelve years, we've got the little traitor, we can do it tonight"
Iris looked around frantic thinking she was the Black's next victim
"No, we can do it tonight" Remus said trying to placate him "but Iris needs to know why"
Iris felt anger shoot through her "I know why" she spat "he betrayed my parents he's the reason they're dead"
"No Iris" Remus said "someone did betray your parents "but it wasn't him, here" he handed her wand back and raised his hands "you're armed we're not, now will you listen"
Iris could see the earnest expression on his face she nodded "Who then?"
"Someone who I thought was dead until you pointed them out on the map"
Iris frowned she was utterly confused
"Peter Pettigrew"
Iris shook her head "no, he killed him" she looked at the convict whose eyes were focused on the squealing rat
"I thought that as well but you mentioned him on the map"
"The map is lying then" Iris said brushing aside her curls
"The map never lies" Black roared, Iris licked her lips
Sirius's face softened when he saw the frightened expression on his goddaughter face.
"Remus hurry up" Black snapped
"I was examining the map tonight, because I had an idea that you, Ron and Hermonie would sneak out tonight to go visit Hagrid-"
Iris brows furrowed as Remus's words were being drowned out by a ringing noise.
AN: Sorry for any spelling errors,
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