"The Champions would be opening the ball with a dance preferably with a waltz" McGonagall said from the front
"Mr Weasley please come on up" Iris stifled her laughter when she saw the alarmed look on Ron's face, he walked towards her till they both were in the centre of the hall, Iris down hard on her bottom lip to stop herself from bursting out with laughter
"Now put your hand on my waist" she instructed
"Where?" Ron squeaked
"Here" McGonagall grabbed his hand and placed it on her waist, Iris couldn't hold it in anymore and laughed loudly making the rest of the hall erupt in laughter, Hermonie hissed for her to be quiet
"Miss Potter since you find this so hilarious you should come up and join us" this wiped the smile on Iris's face off
"But-"
"Mister Malfoy will be your partner" she said curtly, Iris knew she was being ordered.
"You going to stand there all day Potter?" the platinum haired boy drawled, Iris slowly walked across the hall, her cheeks were tinting pink
Iris reluctantly held on to Malfoy's shoulder and cringed when he grabbed her hand
"Now mimic me and Mister Weasley" McGonagall instructed
"What are you doing?" Iris squeaked when he placed his hand on her waist
"What does it look like?" he snapped "dancing or at least attempting to if my partner weren't such-"
"Shut up" Iris hissed into his ear and stomped on his toes causing him to groan quietly
"You did that on purpose" he snapped
"It's not my fault you've got giant troll feet" she shot back, he smirked and pinched her hard on her hip causing her to hiss
By now the rest of the students had joined them Iris was struggling with the steps
"Seriously can't the great Iris Potter do a waltz?" he sneered, Iris smirked
"I may not be able to do a waltz, but I can do this" and with that she kneed him in his family jewels causing him to sink down on to his knees.
Iris groaned and fiddled with the sleeves of her ball gown
"I don't even like dancing" she muttered and turned around hearing a chuckle
"When did you ever?" an accented voice purred into her ear, she turned around and smiled at who was there
"Never" she smiled and took his offered arm, they entered the bustling ball room
"Hmm perhaps it's because you've never had a worthy partner" the dirty blond haired male smiled
"The size of your ego astounds me Nik" she shook her head
"That's not the only thing of me that astounds you" he smirked and pressed his lips against the shell of her ear, causing an a tingle to travel down her spine
"You're a cad" she said breathlessly
"I know" he whispered and twirled her around and placed one of his hands with hers whilst the other rested on her slender hip.
Iris groaned there was a thumping ache in her head, her eyelids fluttered open, Iris slowly blinked her vision was coming back into focus she groaned again and sat up, it felt like the world was tilting, she went to clutch her temple to attempt to sooth her pain but instead found her hands tied together with a thick white rope
"What the-?" she muttered and also saw her feet were tied together "you've got to be kidding me" she thought, never before in her past has she'd been successfully capture but now she has. From the corner of her eye she saw a dark haired figure
"Elena" she said seeing that the brunette was unconscious and like her was tied up, Iris bit her bottom lip and tried to get out of the ropes "Come on" she said through gritted teeth and felt small stinging sensations on her leg, she saw that the small cuts she had gotten last night had started to bleed again, Iris was so focus on attempting to get free she didn't notice a person entering the room
"You're awake"
Iris jumped and gasped, she looked up and saw a towering figure moving over to her, she scuttled backwards but the man who entered the room grabbed her ankle; she froze when he started to untie her legs
"Who the hell are you?" Iris snapped
"Ssh" he hissed, Iris scowled at him
"I deserve an explanation mister Kidnapper" she snapped back and squeaked when his grip on her now free ankles tightened "Oww you're hurting me" she saw his eyes were focused on the blood dripping down her porcelain leg
"You're bleeding" he licked his lips
"I know, now let go" she kicked her non bloodied leg but he swiftly dodge it.
"Just a taste" his fangs extracted, Iris paled and scuttled further backwards
"No" she shook her head, but before she could blink she felt his hand around her throat
"Your blood" he groaned Iris dug her nails into the man's hand, "It smells delicious"
"Get OFF" Iris screamed when his fangs dug in to her throat, she felt something inside her snapped her eyes opened revealing golden orbs but no one notice, he groaned in pain and shoved her away and clutched his head in agony.
"Iris" Elena shouted having been woken up by her scream. She saw the raven head clutching her neck and looking terrified. Elena attempted to get up but found herself tied up and saw that Iris was in a similar situation.
"You little-" Iris cut him off by kicking him hard in the shin making him grunt, she saw his lips stained with her blood his tongue darted out taking the last remnants of her blood
"TREVOR" a sharp voice barked "Control yourself"
"It's a little too late for that" Iris muttered and felt that the fang marks hadn't seriously damaged her.
"What is going on?" Elena asked, but she was ignored.
"You bit her?" the woman asked looking all of a sudden terrified, Iris saw a sudden look of realisation come across the man's face
"I didn't think" he muttered
"Do you want yourself to get killed by him?" the woman snapped "we need to fix her; he can't see her like this"
"Who are you talking about?" Iris asked confused but like Elena she was ignored
"I'll deal with this"
Iris jumped when he appeared in front of her
"What are you-"but stopped talking when she saw him bit down on his wrist and tore the flesh "no-"
He pressed his wrist against her lips; she clenched her mouth shut not wanting to swallow it, since it grossed her out.
"Swallow it" he hissed, she winced when he shoved his wrist harder against her mouth, Iris inhaled it when he thought she had enough he released her, but Iris immediately spat it out on to his face causing him to swear
"Why you-"he went to moved forward but the woman grabbed his shoulder
"Enough before you do any more damage" she hissed, and glanced over to the raven head who was panting, Iris wiped her mouth smudging blood all over her lips.
"Yeah you dick" Iris spat out
Trevor glared at her "buzz kill" he muttered to the woman. Iris held up her tied hands to her neck and felt the shallow cuts.
"What do you want with us?" Elena asked
"My god you look just like her" the woman said looking at Elena, Iris frowned thinking what the hell kind of trouble did Katherine get them into.
"She's not Katherine" Iris called out to her
"Shut up"
Iris rolled her eyes and leant her head back against the wall
"But she's telling the truth, I'm not Katherine" Elena said desperately "my name is Elena Gilbert you don't have to do this"
"I know who you are, be quiet" she shouted, Iris staggered on to her feet and stood by Elena
"What do you want?" the brunette asked
Iris gasped when the woman slapped Elena hard across the face with enough force to go unconscious and land on the couch
"Hey" Iris shouted "was there any need for that? She just-"but Iris quickly snapped her mouth shut when she saw the woman raise her hand "alright, alright no need to get nasty"
"Do you have any self-control in being quiet?" she asked narrowing her eyes on the raven head
Iris curious nature was getting the best of her "why am I here?" she asked softly hoping that the woman would answer her question.
"You're the deal breaker, he'll be very pleased to see you" and with that she walked away leaving behind a thoroughly confused Iris who now had a ton of questions on the tip of her tongue. She sighed knowing that they won't be answered any time soon so she moved over to Elena and checked on the girl that was some slap she took. Iris saw that she was fine just merely knocked out, she dropped down on the other end of the couch since she had nothing to do beside wait for Elena to wake up.
Iris gently touched the marks on her neck and felt them scab over, she must've swallowed a little of Trevor's blood.
Iris sighed she had made Elena comfortable and was now getting bored, she wondered what Trevor and the woman was up to.
From the corner of her eye she saw Elena beginning to stir, when she did Iris let out a sigh of relief
"Thank merlin you're alright" she hugged her friend which she returned
"Let's get out of here" Elena whispered, Iris nodded and followed after her friend who was limping slightly.
They quietly walked down a hall, Iris grabbed on to Elena's hand hearing voices in the room in front of them, she raised her index finger to her lips, silently telling her to be quiet they moved slightly closer
"Did you or did you not manage to get a message to Elijah?" Iris heard Trevor ask, Elijah? Why did that name sound so familiar? She thought
"They say he got it" the woman replied
"Wonderful" Trevor exclaimed "and now what Rose?"
"And that's it, he either got it or he hasn't, all we have to do is wait" the woman snapped, "plus we've got her, so he should definitely be showing up"
Both Iris and Elena shared confused wondering who was the 'her' the woman was referring to.
"We don't have to go through with this, we can just leave them here and run" Trevor said, Iris could hear the panic in his tone the vampire was scared of whoever this Elijah was
"I am sick of running"
"Running is what keeps us from being dead" Trevor retorted
"Elijah's old school" the woman said "if he accepts our deal then we'll be free"
Iris inwardly cringed when Elena caused the floorboard to groan under her weight
"You two" the woman snapped appearing in front of them
"I need to pee" Iris blurted out saying the first thing that came into her mind
"Don't even bother trying to escape" she snapped "There's nothing around for miles, if you think you're getting out you're wrong"
"Who's Elijah?" Elena asked,
"Your worst nightmare" and with that she walked away, Iris glared at Elena
"You might as well have a neon sign painted on us saying eavesdroppers" she huffed, Elena rolled her eyes and followed after the vampire, Iris trailed after her and saw that they entered another large room, there was a couch in the centre which Iris flopped down on knowing that neither her or Elena would be leaving any time soon
"Why are we here?" Elena asked
"You keep asking questions thinking I'm going to answer them" the woman commented
"Why won't you?" this time it was Iris who asked.
"That's another one"
"Yeah but you're not answering any of Elena's questions" she groaned slightly and rolled on to her side so that her full weight wasn't on her back "so I figure I'd give it a shot"
"What's up with you?" Trevor asked "I didn't hurt you that bad"
"Don't touch me" she snapped "and it was that cow Katherine" she muttered "at least I answered your question unlike you"
"It's not like we're going anywhere, so you could at least tell us what you want with us" Elena snapped folding her arms in front of her chest.
"Me personally I don't want anything, I'm just a delivery service" Rose said stacking some books up
"Delivery to this mysterious Elijah person?" Iris uttered out
"Mysterious?" Trevor scoffed but was silence by the glare Rose was giving him.
"Who is he? A vampire?" she heard Elena asked
"He is one of the vampires. The originals" Iris sat up
"The originals?" she asked quirking an eyebrow "what do you mean by originals?"
Rose and Trevor both looked at the raven head "Interesting, I thought you would know all about them, since your past goes back with them"
"What?" Iris asked confusion marring her face
"Ah so that part of the story is true" Trevor smirked "you know nothing"
"I know that you're a dumb arse" Iris snapped folding her arms in front of her chest causing said vampire to glare.
"What do you mean?" Elena snapped curiosity getting the best of her
"Again with the questions"
"Bloody hell just tell us already, you're the ones with the freaking answers since you kidnapped us" Iris snapped and withered slightly under the glare that Rose was giving.
"She's feisty I wish we could keep her" Trevor grinned at Iris who rolled her eyes.
"Haven't the Salvatores been teaching you your vampire history?" she asked, Iris glared at Trevor who was eyeing her bloodied leg.
"So you know Stefan and Damon?"
"A hundred years back, a friend of mine tried to set me up with Stefan, said that he was one of the few good ones" she paused, Iris nodded the definitely sounded like the younger Stefan "but I'm more of a sucker for the bad boys"
"Have you met Damon? You should" Iris said her lips twitching in amusement
"Iris now isn't the time" Elena hissed, Rose scoffed she was beginning to like the small raven head but yet again the doppelganger was asking bothersome questions.
"Who are the Originals?" Elena asked, Iris leant forward so that her elbows were resting on her knees, she was glad that she was sitting down her feet were aching from the heels she had worn for the party.
"We've been running for over 500 years, we're tired, we want it over, and so we're using you two to negotiate ourselves out of an old mess"
Iris frowned at this; failing to see it how involved herself and Elena
"Why us?" Elena asked the question that Iris was thinking.
"Because you're the Petrova doppelganger"
"Then why the hell am I here?" Iris asked frowning.
"Because you're just as wanted as her" Rose pointed over to Elena "they've been looking for you for a very long time, plus you're both the keys to breaking the curse"
"The sun and the moon curse?" Elena asked, Iris sighed wondering how the hell she was embroiled in an ancient curse.
"Oh so you do know your history"
"What do you mean we're the key? The moonstone is what breaks the curse"
"No the Moonstone is what binds the curse" Rose said "the sacrifice is what breaks it"
"Sacrifice?" Iris asked not at all liking the sound of that, this sounded eerily familiar to her,
"The blood of the doppelganger, and you're the doppelganger" Iris looked worriedly at Elena she couldn't die she vehemently thought "you need to die to break the curse"
"Then what-"
"You" she looked at Iris "are somehow involved in breaking the curse but it wasn't clear on how"
"Wonderful" Iris said sarcastically
"Tell us more" Elena demanded
"Captivity made her pushy eh?" Trevor said grabbing a large plank of wood covering one of the windows in the room "what do you want to know doppelicious?"
Iris shuddered at the nickname "you my good sir suck at giving out nicknames"
"You really are feisty, no wonder they're so desperate to get you back" Trevor commented
"Quit being so damn cryptic" Iris snapped glaring at him
"Who are you running from?" Elena asked bringing both vampires attentions back onto her, not wanting Iris to say anything in case she went over the line and got herself hurt from them.
"The Originals" Rose said
"The first family, the old world" Trevor said kicking some books out of his way, Iris frowned
"You know you shouldn't kick books-"she stopped talking seeing the glare she was getting from the vampire "Rose and I pissed them off" but Rose cleared her throat causing Trevor to roll his eyes
"Correction I pissed them off. Rose had my back, and for over a half a millennium they've wanted us dead"
"What did you do?" Elena asked, Iris listened as well
"He made the same mistake countless others did. He trusted Katerina Petrova" she told them. Iris rolled her eyes
"That cow gets around" she muttered around, causing Trevor to snort
"She was the first Petrova doppelganger" Rose said
"And I helped her escape her fate, and since then I- we've been marked ever since"
"Brilliant" Iris sighed tucking in her stray curls behind her ear.
"And we're not going to make the same mistake again" Rose said looking at Elena, "and you, well they would've found you sooner or later" she was now looking at Iris who frowned she was confused wondering why the Originals had wanted her.
"We're in trouble" Iris flopped back down on the couch, thinking what she had gotten into now. She saw Trevor leaving with Rose. Elena sat down by Iris's feet; she saw the worried look on the petite girl's face
"Damon and Stefan will find us" Elena assured her, Iris sent her shaky smile
"Hope so" she said softly staring up at the ceiling,
Iris sighed her and Elena were back in the room they had woken up in
"Elena stop pacing before you create a hole in the floor" Iris said moving towards the vast amounts of books lining the shelves.
"Sorry, I'm worried" she heard the brunette; Iris nodded as the tips of her fingers grazed over the spines of the hardback books.
"Hmm this looks interesting" she muttered under her breath pulling a hard back red book and flipped it open skimming her eyes over the text "Elena, they've got old fairy tale stories in here" she smiled slightly, but looked up when she heard her friend gasp, she saw Elena clutching a note
"What's that?" Iris asked keeping hold the book, she peeked around Elena's shoulder and read "Stefan and Damon are coming for you- B"
"Thank merlin, they're coming" Iris muttered and dropped down on to the couch, reopening the book.
"Fairy tales?" a voice remarked
"Bloody hell what's with vampires and sneaking up on people" Iris snapped seeing Trevor leaning behind her, he smirked and was next to her in the next second.
"It's a thing that we vampires like to do" he commented, she rolled her eyes.
"Go, shoo" Iris waved her hand. Causing the vampire to snort
"Did you just shoo me?"
"She does that to a lot of people" Elena muttered
"Only to those I find annoying" she looked pointedly at Trevor "at this precise moment that person is you"
"You're funny little thing" he chuckled
"Trevor" Rose barked "are you getting attached to her?"
"No" Trevor snapped getting up "she-"
"Don't, we're handing both of them over to Elijah, so don't get attached"
"Woman we have names" Iris snapped
"Shut up"
"You're nice" the raven head muttered and went back to reading the book "This is so boring, does this Elijah have poor timing or did you-"
"Shut up" Rose hissed and with that she stalked away
"So are you going to feel better once you sent us to our deaths?" Iris called to her retreating form causing the female vampire to pause,
"You're not dying" she stated
"I thought we were part of some sacrifice meaning we're both dead" Iris stood up, she saw a flicker in Rose's eyes, Iris eyes widened slightly
"You don't necessarily want us dead" she murmured "Tell me Rose how are you going to look at yourself in the mirror when you walk away?"
"We'll be free, that's all I wanted" Rose said quietly, Trevor left the room as his vampire counterpart went around the room packing things away.
Iris was now positioned on the sofa in a way where her head was upside down and the backs of her legs were resting against the top half of the couch
"You know Rose, you've got some gruesome fairy tales in this book" she commented, Elena looked down at Iris wondering how could the raven head be so calmed and collected. But the silent atmosphere diminished when Trevor came barging into the room
"He's here" Iris could see the change in his demeanour, he was panicked and afraid "this was a mistake" Iris stood up
"Well then maybe you should just let us sneak out of the window?" she suggested
Rose rolled her eyes "No, I told you that I would get us out of this, you have to trust me"
"No" Trevor shouted pulling his hair "he wants me dead Rose"
"Who could blame him, you're a biter" Iris muttered causing Elena to elbow her.
"He wants them more" Rose ignored the raven head.
Iris dropped back down on the couch, her nails dug into the hardback book, she saw Trevor circling the room "I can't do this, you give them to him, he'll have mercy on you, plus I bit her" he pointed at Iris, "I need to get out of here"
"Merlin at least stick it out" Iris rolled her emerald orbs, "you went this far in kidnapping us and now you run off"
"Hey" Rose said placing her hands on his shoulders "what are we?"
He closed his eyes and opened them, looking into Rose's eyes "we're family, forever"
Iris licked her lips, these vampires reminded her of the relationships she shared with the Salvatores, and she trusted them and loved them both of them as if they were her brothers. She could see that Rose cared deeply for Trevor and understood why she had his back for nearly five hundred years.
There was a loud knock causing all the room's occupants heads to whip around to the noise, Iris felt her stomach lurch with unease seeing how terrified both vampires were
"You're scared" Elena whispered.
Rose looked at both girls, Iris could see the brief flash of remorse but it was gone she turned back to Trevor
"Stay with them and don't make a sound" she said and with that she jogged away.
"I think I'm going to throw up" Iris hugged herself rubbing her arms up and down.
"Don't do it here" Trevor snapped
She stuck her tongue at him and rolled her eyes, she was leaning against the arm of the chair whilst Elena resumed her pacing.
Iris chewed her bottom and grew even more nervous when she heard the sound of footsteps; she looked up and saw the Original standing there. He looked eerily familiar to Iris, like she had seen him somewhere before but couldn't place him there was no doubt denying it he was a handsome vampire, and he reeked off authority.
She shuffled backwards and glanced at Elena who looked like she was shaking , Iris saw that the Original's attention was focused on the brunette, the raven head jumped when he appeared in front of Elena, his dark eyes looking at her friend, Iris felt her heart beat faster as she watched the vampire lean towards Elena and smelled her neck, he pulled back
"Human" he murmured "impossible, why hello there" he smirked down at her. Elijah's nose twitched at the smell of a far too familiar scent his eyes shot towards the raven head, he was met by stunning emerald orbs.
Iris gasped when he appeared in front of her
"It's been far too long Iris" his voice held a slight accent, her brows furrowed in confusion. As he lightly smiled at her, Elijah had been searching for her for a long time and was immensely glad that he'd found her, he reached up and cupped her cheek Iris jumped when he did that, she saw his eyes drop down to the barely there fang marks he took in her whole appearance
"Why is she in this state?" he growled at the pair of terrified vampires. Iris winced when she felt his hand on her throat and ran his thumb over the barely there fang marks.
"I…I-"
"You wanted a taste" Elijah cut Trevor off and sent him a look making the other male vampire quake in his boots,
"What are you doing?" Iris squeaked when she saw him coming closer, she trembled when she felt the tip of his nose against her throat, he groaned quietly
"Exactly how I remembered" he tilted her chin up and saw the dry blood smeared across her full lips and sniffed it
"You got greedy"
Trevor remained silence knowing that he would be foolish to anger the Original vampire.
"No, don't I-" Iris immediately attempted to scramble backwards when she saw Elijah biting down on to his wrist, she felt his arm wrap around her waist and clenched her eyes shut when he pressed bloodied wrist against her mouth, her hands went up trying to pull his large hand away from her.
"Drink it" he urged "you'll heal" when he saw that she wasn't swallowing his blood, he lightly pinched her nose causing Iris to gasp she felt his thick blood run down her throat. When he deemed that she had enough he pulled back, Iris staggered and would have fell if it weren't for his arm around her waist. "There all better"
Elena had watched the scene agape; it looked like this Elijah fellow knew her friend.
"We have a long journey ahead of us, we should be going" Elijah said to both girls, his oak brown eyes remained on Iris as if he couldn't tear his eyes away from her.
"Please you can't let him take us" Elena pleaded to Rose who looked down.
"One last piece of business then we're done" he said Iris let out a sigh of relief when he moved away from her.
Iris quickly moved over to Elena's side, the brunette clutched her shaky hand giving it a small squeeze Iris gave her a grim smile, she was thinking that they would have to stall him till help arrived, in the form of Stefan and Damon.
Iris watched as Elijah turned to face Rose and Trevor, his hands behind his back as he walked up to a clearly scared Trevor, Iris felt a pang of sympathy for the vampire.
"I've waited for this day for so long Elijah. I am truly sorry"
"Oh no you're apology is not necessary" Elijah said, Iris bit her bottom lip knowing that the older vampire was putting up an act.
"Yes, yes it is" Trevor stuttered out, Elijah circled the vampire to Iris it looked like a vulture circling his prey "you trusted me with Katerina and I failed you"
Iris could feel her back ache was now gone, in fact she felt much better than she ever had before. She saw Elijah move to stand in front of Trevor, Iris discreetly looked at Rose who eyes were full of unshed tears
"Well yes you are the guilty one. Rose aided you because she was loyal to you, now that I honour, where was your loyalty?"
Iris clutched the book hard her fingernails were definitely be leaving marks on it
"I beg your forgiveness" Trevor stammered out, Iris licked her lips her eyes darting between the pair
"So granted" he tilted his head slightly, Iris saw a relief smile spread over Trevor's face but it was instantly wiped off when Elijah raised his hand and literally slapped his hand across Trevor's with enough force to detach his head from his body. Iris gasped and turned away queasy at the sight of the headless body. Iris looked up hearing Rose's gut wrenching cry, she felt a pang go through her seeing the distraught vampire she stepped forward
"You-"
"Don't Rose" Elijah said fixing the cuffs of his sleeves "now that you're free"
Iris felt her bottom lip tremble her heart went out to the female vampire who continued to cry, the raven head went to move forward to comfort her but Elijah was instantly at her side grabbing wrist
"Don't be so foolish" he whispered into her ear, she could feel his hot breath against her skin
"Let go of me" Iris spat angered at what he'd done
"Never" he said seriously he then held out his hand towards Elena "Come" Iris looked over to her friend who was now beginning to panic even more
"No, wait what about the moonstone?" Elena blurted out, Iris eyes widened at this
"Elena" Iris hissed, thinking what the hell Elena was up to. She was slightly relieved when Elijah's grip on her loosened she tried to pull away but he wasn't having any of it and grabbed her hand. Iris looked down at the intertwined hands and could see the vast difference between the two, his were large and strong looking and looked slightly refined whilst hers was small and delicate looking.
"What do you know about the moonstone?" he asked unfazed, inhaling Iris's scent.
"I know that you need it and I know where it is" Elena said, Iris gritted her teeth as she again tried to pry his hand off of hers. Elijah ignored the small raven head's struggles in was internally amused she definitely hadn't lost her fire.
"Yes?" he nodded to Elena, whose eyes were darting between Iris and Elijah
"I can help you get it"
"Tell me where it is" he demanded
"No way, that's not how it works" Iris said knowing Elena would be trying to negotiate with him "You let us go and we'll tell you where it is"
He smirked at her and then fisted his hand into her raven locks, she groaned when he tugged her head up was so she was looking at him he ran his index finger down the apple of her cheek, and Elijah felt the heat beneath her skin. It has been far too long.
"You my dear I am not letting go" he whispered and then abruptly his hold on her hair was gone, but he now had a grip around her wrist.
Elena shook her head; she was worried for her friend seeing that Elijah was far more interested in the raven head beauty
"It doesn't work that way" she repeated Iris's words.
Elijah sighed and looked over to Rose who was still crying "Are you negotiating with me?"
Rose glared Elena "It's the first I've heard of it"
Iris licked her lips her eyes remained focus on Elena's, knowing how frightened her friend decided to step in, his grip had considerably loosened she wasn't stupid enough to run after witnessing what he had done with Trevor
She stepped in front of Elena "She doesn't know where the moonstone is. She's just saying it, but I do"
"So are you going to try and negotiate with me?" he asked her amused
"We can make a deal" Iris said looking at him in the eyes. His oak brown eyes bore into her emerald ones, she stiffened when he dragged his finger up her neck, he felt the steady beat of her pulse, he bowed his head slightly looking deep into her eyes, and she saw his pupils dilating
"Exactly how I recalled, you cannot be compelled"
Rose and Elena watched the scene, wondering if this was the same man who'd just moments ago had callously tore a vampire's head from their body, he was being far more gentle with her.
"But she on the other hand can be" he looked over to Elena he moved past Iris
His oak brown eyes caught Elena's eyes his nose twitched
"What's this vervaine doing around your neck" with that he ripped off Elena's vervaine stuffed necklace and threw it across the room
"Hey" Iris yelled when he grabbed a fistful of Elena's hair forcing her to look at him. The raven moved forward but he used his other arm too grab Iris and to stop her going to Elena
"Let go of me" but he ignored the squirming girl.
"Tell me where the moonstone is?" he compelled her.
"It's in the tomb. Underneath the church ruins"
"Crap" Iris muttered knowing now that they don't have anything to bargain with now.
"What's it doing there?"
"It's with Katherine" she replied in monotone.
"Interesting" he stepped away from Elena and released her from his compulsion but he kept hold of Iris, she jumped when there was a clatter, she felt his grip on her tightened.
"What is that?" he asked looking at Rose
"I don't know" she replied, Elijah looked around the room
"Who else is here?" he demanded thinking that Rose was part of whatever was going on.
"I don't know" Rose insisted firmly.
Elijah growled and roughly grabbed Elena by her upper arm and now wrapped an arm around Iris's waist
"Move" he ordered, Iris had to jog to keep up with his long strides, and he dragged both girls to the foyer. They stopped in the foyer, Iris licked her lips anticipation was building up, she gasped as something moved behind her it tickled her back, her hair whipped around her, Elijah gritted his teeth and threw Elena towards Rose but kept hold of Iris who was pressed against his side,
"Rose?" he growled
"I don't know who he is" she replied, Iris saw a flash of movement in front of her
"Up here" Iris recognised that it was Stefan, she let out a small smile knowing that he was here. She gasped when the Original wrapped one arm around her waist and sped up halfway up the stairs, she internally cringed when her stomach jolted. She saw another blur of movement
"Down here" she definitely knew who that was and wasn't surprised that Damon was here as well. She jumped when a stake was shot hitting Elijah in the palm of his hand, he let go of her momentarily and pulled it out without flinching and flung it aside,
"Wonderful they left me behind" she muttered under her breath having looked back and saw that both Rose and Elena had disappeared, this was bloody brilliant she thought, they left her behind with a vampire that slapped others heads off, if he was crossed.
She gulped as he called out to Stefan and Damon "Excuse me. To whom it may concern. You're making a grave mistake if you think you can beat me. You can't. you hear that" he then proceeded to drag Iris down the stairs with him. He definitely wouldn't be letting go of her, he didn't want her to be taken away not after he'd just found her after more than a few decades of looking.
Iris sighed in frustration hating that she was being tugged around
"Let go" she hissed trying to squirm out of his iron grip, she gripped on to his fingers attempting to pry them off
"No" he said grabbing a coat hook
"Just let go" she snapped at him, and winced slightly when his fingers dug into her soft flesh, Iris gritted her teeth and dug her nails into his hand. He growled and whipped her around so that they now stood chest to chest; Iris gulped as he glowered down at her
"I am not letting you go especially after I've found you" he hissed, she scowled at him.
Elijah sighed quietly; Iris hadn't changed at all she was still the small spitfire that she always was. Iris stood still as he broke the hooks off of the coat rack. "So I want the girl" he called out to Damon and Stefan "on the count of three or heads will roll, do we have an understanding?"
Iris held in her breath, knowing that this powerful vampire would literally make heads roll.
She looked up hearing Elena
"I'll come with you" Elena said at the top of the stairs, she discreetly glanced at Iris and was glad that the petite teen was unharmed
"Elena no" Iris shouted moving to step forward but Elijah grabbed her by upper arm and dragged her forwards till they were at the bottom of the stairs "just please don't hurt our friends, they're just trying to help us out"
Elena gasped as Elijah appeared in front of her with Iris, who stumbled at the speed
"Why am I always dragged around?" she muttered under breath feeling slightly nauseated.
"What games are you playing with me?" he snarled at her. Iris eyes widened as Elena chucked a vervaine grenade at the Original, he stumbled slightly loosening his grip on Iris who wasn't steady on her feet as she was mostly been supported by Elijah.
"Iris" Elena gasped as Iris tumbled down the stairs hitting the floor hard.
Iris groaned blinking away her hazy vision, she had landed on her stomach and was currently nursing her sore head; she managed to get on to her knees as Stefan came out and started shooting small stakes at Elijah, but the Original growled and kept coming towards him. Iris watched as Stefan resorted to tackling the older vampire sending them both crashing down the stairs.
"Stefan" Iris cried out as he landed beside her, she gasped as Elijah used his vampire speed and towered over them. Stefan positioned himself so that he was protectively in front of the raven head.
Elijah resisted the urge to laugh at the sight, thinking did this pathetic little vampire could stop him from taking both girls, especially Iris she was entwined with him, whether she knew it or not. Iris clutched on to the back of Stefan's shirt as Elijah reached down to either grab her or get Stefan.
She gasped when Damon came charging out with the make shift stake that the Original had created and shoved it into Elijah's chest. Iris's emerald orbs met his oak brown ones she slowly stood up as he was pinned the door, she felt her gut clench as the vampire in front of her gasped for breath
"Iris" he groaned and then his head pitched forward, she frowned slightly she knew him she was sure of that, she felt like this wasn't the last time she would see him, he was an Original after all. She jumped when a pair of hands landed on her shoulders, she spun around meeting Damon's icy blue eyes
"Are you ok?" he asked seriously,
She launched herself into his arms and hugged "I am now" he hugged her back, she smiled slightly as he kissed her temple and buried his nose into her raven locks
"Never do that again"
"What you mean getting kidnapped? I'll try not to" she drawled, he chuckled and looked over Iris's shoulder seeing Elena coming down the stairs and hugged Stefan.
Iris pulled back and saw the disheartened look on the vampire's face. She turned around and saw what had got him upset, she sighed and shook her head. The next thing Iris knew Stefan had pulled her in to a bone crushing hug "You've no idea how worried you made us" Stefan pulled back and lightly stroked her cheek
"Hmm" she rested her head against his chest, when Stefan had learned that Elena had been taken he was worried but grew panicked when he'd found out Iris had been taken as well.
"Stefan" Elena called "we should go"
"Yeah, let's get the hell out of here, my feet are killing me" Iris muttered underneath her breath.
"No wonder why, you've been wearing those heels for over twenty four hours" Elena chuckled.
"I didn't even want to wear them in the first place" she grumbled,
"Well let me remedy this situation" Damon smirked and scooped up the small raven head into his arms
"DAMON" she shouted "don't pinch my bum"
"It's perky can you blame me" he responded, both Elena and Stefan shook their heads in amusement; he wrapped his arm around the brunette's shoulder and guided her out of the poor excuse of a house.
"Seriously flower, don't you ever eat? You're as light as a feather" Damon smirked she blushed trying to wriggle out of his hold, but soon gave up knowing he wouldn't be letting of her
"I do eat, and stop trying to cop a feel-"
"I'm doing no such thing-"
"STEFAN" Iris yelled "Damon's being an arse stop him"
"It's like having two small children" Elena muttered thinking the car ride home would be a nightmare if the previous road trip they had taken was anything to go by.
AN: There you go, Elijah and Iris finally met. I was going to cut this chapter in half thinking it might be too long, but once again reviews swayed me and it would've been to cruel.
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