Iris sighed and rolled over, snuggling further into her pillow and was slowly waking up feeling the sun rays on her skin, and she huffed and laid down flat on her back. She wanted to remain in her bed not wanting to get out, yesterday's events were coming back to her, Iris was still feeling the hurt and betrayed from what she learned last night and what Damon had done.
Iris pushed the slight ache away from her chest and sat up, she wasn't the type of person to mope about all day about bad things that happened to her. She swung her legs out of her double bed and stretched her stiff muscles, she padded barefooted into her bathroom and turned the shower faucet on, Iris had a quick shower and washed her hair, she stepped out and grabbed her towel drying herself off. She wrapped it around herself and rummaged through her dresser quickly sliding on her panties and bra, then proceeded to dig through her messy closet, she opted to wear a floral skirt and a short sleeve lace button up shirt.
Her ears perked up hearing her cell ringing
"Hello?" she answered as she grabbed her hair dryer
"Iris?"
"Hey Elena, what's up?" she smiled hearing the doppelganger
"Well I got a plan about this whole Klaus fiasco" she stated, Iris frowned wondering what the teen was about to get her into.
"Oh?" she crouched down digging through the numerous shoe boxes finally managing to locate a pair of cream coloured flats.
"Yeah, I'll explain, I'll pick you up in fifteen minutes"
"Wait" Iris quickly yelled "where are we going?"
"To the boarding house" Elena replied, Iris frowned "Why is everything ok-"
"Everything's fine" she cut her off, "I'll be ready" and with that she hanged up her cell
Iris bit her bottom lip as Elena drove them to the boarding house; Elena cast a curious look over to the raven head and noticed that she was far too anxious
"Iris, are you ok?" she asked causing Iris look at her slightly startled as she was lost in her thoughts
"Huh?"
"Are you ok?" she repeated
Iris nodded "Yeah I'm fine"
"You've been acting funny since I picked you up, strangely quiet"
Iris plastered a fake smile on to her face "It's nothing" she said. Elena gave her an unsure nod. As soon as Elena exited the car the smile dropped off her face.
Screw it she thought, she wasn't going to avoid Damon, if she saw him she'll simply just deal with it.
Iris followed after Elena into the boarding house
"They really need to lock their doors" Iris muttered, Elena chortled
"Iris, they're vampires I think they'll be able to deal with intruders" she stated,
"Hmm" Iris smoothed down her skirt as she headed further down the hallway as Elena closed the door behind them
"It's not nice to leave a girl naked early in the morning" Iris blushed seeing Rose waltzed towards her and Elena in a robe that was barely covering the female vampire's body "Sorry I thought you was-"
"That Arse hole" Iris finished off
"Most commonly known as Damon" Elena shook her head. Oblivious to the look that Rose was giving Iris
"Stefan and Damon are out"
"It's actually you we've come to see" Elena stated, Iris folded her arms in front of her chest
"Well I better get dress then" Rose said
"That'll be a good idea" Iris muttered the two teenage girls headed into the parlour, Iris dropped down on the squashy couch. A moment later they were joined by Rose who was now fully dressed
"So what is it that you want?"
"I know you don't exactly like me-"Iris snorted at this but the glare she was getting from her friend silenced her, she rolled her emerald orbs
"Understatement, she slapped you because you wasn't quite enough"
Elena ignored her and focused back onto the amused vampire "anyway Stefan told me that your friend Slater has more information on Klaus"
Iris sat up properly wondering when did Stefan spoke to Elena, he must've seen her last night; she tucked in a stray curl and pulled her chest to her knees.
"-but you gave up before either you or Damon could get it" Elena finished off.
"Because someone blew up the coffee shop with us in it" Rose snapped, Iris eyes widened at that
"You're serious?"
Rose sighed and looked over to the raven head "Yes"
"Someone knew that vampires were in there and-"
"busted the windows, lucky Damon was there to get me out"
Iris's fists clenched "Yeah he's a real hero" she drawled "as well as a two faced liar" she muttered, Rose pinched the bridge of her nose knowing that the petite teen had every right to be angry at Damon as well as Stefan. Iris didn't appreciate being lied to as well as being deceived. Iris remained quiet as Elena and Rose talked
"There's more to learn, we just need to learn it" Elena insisted, Iris had to give credit to the brunette she was determined.
"Why are you coming to me with this?" Rose asked
"Isn't it obvious? Damon or Stefan won't allow us to go seeking out Klaus even information about it" Iris muttered,
"Plus it's ample timing isn't it? Them at this precise moment will be busy getting the moonstone"
"Now that's a coincidence" Iris muttered but saw the look on Elena's face, clearly the taller girl had in fact thought this through.
"We're having a disagreement, they're willing to risk everyone I love and I'm not"
Iris chewed her plump bottom lip and leant forward "Elena they're just trying to protect you"
"Well I can't risk it Iris, my family is in danger and friends, I-"
"I understand but it does sound like you're giving up. Elena if you love them as much as you say you then wouldn't you fight to stay with them" Iris said.
"I'm doing this my way Iris, and you're not going to change my mind"
"Fine, do it your way, but when Stefan and Damon find out-"
"They won't" Elena snapped
Iris's jaw ticked, she was annoyed didn't the brunette comprehend that even if she did everything Klaus said once the ritual was done there was nothing to stop him from killing everyone anyway?
"I need some air" Iris muttered and without a backwards glance she headed towards the front door and leant against the porch railing. Iris sighed she didn't know whether Elena was being noble or downright foolish, she was leaning more towards the noble side as Iris had done exactly the same a couple of years ago, willing to sacrifice herself to save the ones she loved.
Iris hoped though that Elena would have a happier ending than she did since the girl had a group of true friends at her side. The former witch still remembered that day clearly, coming back to the world of the living to only find out that her so called friends didn't want anything to do with her. Iris didn't blame them, she was freaky even in the magical world, it had felt like that despite the fact she had friends, she never truly fitted in. Iris was brought out of her musings hearing Elena's voice she headed back inside and leant against the door.
"You already proven that you don't care whether I'm safe or not you're taking us to Slater"
"No" Rose glanced over to Iris who met her eyes "have you even asked your little friend-"
"I've got a name you know" Iris cut her off
"Fine, have you even asked Iris-"she put emphasis on the name, causing Iris's lips to twitch in amusement "whether she wants to go on this suicide mission? Or did you just assume?"
Elena's brows furrowed, Iris licked her lips
"I'd like to come thank you very much, there's people I've grown close to and I don't want anything to happen to them" Iris looked over to the crackling fire, that was true despite that both Stefan and Damon weren't in her good books, she wouldn't allow them to put themselves or anyone else in danger.
Rose was miffed, truth be told she'd thought that Iris would be less than willing to go along with this.
Elena could see that Rose wasn't going to agree so tried a different approach
"You kidnapped me-" Iris cleared her throat, Elena sighed "fine you kidnapped us, if you do this we'll forgive you" Rose shook her head
Iris eyes widened in disbelief "seriously Elena, I don't she's that bothered about getting your forgiveness"
Elena huffed "Fine what do you suggest?" she snapped, she saw the raven head's eyes brightened and knew that she had a plan
"Look Rose, how would you like walking in the sunlight?"
"What do you think? I've been living in the shadows for five hundred years"
"Well we know a witch who could make that happen" Elena added on.
"Fine" Rose agreed "let's go"
"Curious in all your time why hadn't you sought out a witch to-"
"Now isn't the time Iris" Elena cut her off and grabbed her hands pulling Iris on to her feet, Rose shook her head as both Elena and Iris headed out her heightened senses could pick up the petite girl's British dulcet tones
"Iris-"
"What I was curious" the raven head defended herself.
Iris whistled seeing the building they were entering, whoever this Slater was he sure did live it up she followed after the taller brunettes up the stairs
They finally arrived at Slater's apartment,
"Slater" Rose banged her fist against the door.
Iris shifted slightly and folded her arms across her chest, she felt her phone buzzed and patted down her pockets and pulled out her phone, she looked at the screen and saw that Damon was calling her, she pressed the hang up button and decided to turn it off, the vampire had been trying to contact her for the last couple of hours.
"He's not home sorry" Rose said turning back around, they had been waiting for five minutes and there was no sign of Slater.
"No way, we came all this way, we're not leaving, you're a vampire just use one of your super cool super powers" Iris said. Rose cocked an eyebrow and looked over to the doppelganger who simply nodded, the vampire grumbled under her breath and turned back towards the door. Iris watched as Rose easily pushed the doors open making chains snapped. The doors were flung open. They stepped in, Iris looked around as Rose disappeared she could hear the vampire calling for her friend
"Slater" she yelled, Iris stepped further in to the room, and saw a computer and a desk she headed over there and opted to see if there was anything worth there
"What are you doing?" Elena asked
"Snooping" Iris simply replied, Elena opened her mouth about to speak but she was cut off by Rose
"I don't think he's going to be much help" both Iris and Elena exchanged befuddled looks, and ran over to where the vampire was. Iris gagged at the sight, she wasn't used to seeing greying corpses
"Ergh he's dead" she scrunched up her nose in slight disgust,
"You think" Rose rolled her eyes
"But why would they kill him?" Iris asked as Rose went to drag the body out of the room, putting it Merlin knows where.
"He had information that was valuable" Rose called
Iris looked over her shoulder and saw that Elena going through various sheets of paper over by the desk
"Now what are you doing?" Iris asked with her arms folded in front of her chest, cocking her hip out slightly
"Snooping" she grinned, Iris rolled her eyes
"Now it's ok to snoop, but when I do it I get questioned" she mumbled and set out to help Elena, Iris lifted various sheets of paper up, she groaned finding nothing useful
"This isn't going to help us" she muttered as Rose came back in to the room "I'm guessing whoever blew up the coffee shop, was the one that killed him"
"You're right about that"
"Why would they do that?" Elena asked. Iris bit down on her bottom lip and walked over to the window
"To stop him from helping people like us" Rose answered as she went over to the window and pulled back the curtains
"Wait-" Iris eyes widened she heard Elena gasped,
"What are you doing?"
A confused look appeared on the raven head's face when Rose didn't cry out in pain nor was she burning
"Huh?"
"Tempered glass, UV rays can't penetrate it" she explained "I used to come here and watch the sun rise"
Iris reached out and placed her hand on the vampire's shoulder and gave her a light squeeze
"It must've been beautiful with the view an all" Iris smiled comfortingly at her "I'm sorry about Slater"
Rose turned around and smiled slightly at the teen "Thank you" her eyes darted over to Elena who was now on the computer "Iris, about last night-"
"I don't want to talk about it" Iris headed over to Elena leaving behind a slightly frustrated Rose.
"Any luck?" Iris asked seeing Elena attempting to log in to Slater's computer.
"It's password protected I can't get it" she told them. Iris sighed and wetted her lips
"Then that's then, we might as well go"
Before they could reply they all froze, hearing a rustling in the other room, Rose went go check it and Elena stood up, they followed after the vampire, Iris brows furrowed as a youngish looking girl was before them "Alice" Rose said, the young girl launched herself in to the female vampire's arms. The girl was sobbing into Rose's arms, the vampire comforted her, Iris was faintly relieved that Rose had gotten rid of Slater's body since that would definitely traumatise the girl. She lingered back as Elena went over to the couch to see the girl. Iris pulled out her cell and switched it on, she wasn't surprised seeing that she had several missed calls some from Damon and a few from Stefan, she turned it off again and approached Rose
"How is she?" she asked quietly gesturing over to the girl that Elena was with
"She's overreacting; she found him a few minutes before we did"
Iris frowned "she found her boyfriend dead, I think she has every reason to overreact" the petite teen defended Alice
Rose shook her head at the girl; Iris was far too compassionate for her own good.
"The tears are for her, she was only with Slater so that he would turn her"
Iris mouth made an 'o' shape "Wow what a cow"
"You've got that right" Rose nodded,
Iris eyes brightened she had an idea "Hey, Alice" she called causing the tearful girl to look at her "Do you know the password to Slater's computer?"
"Iris" Elena snapped wondering what the hell the other girl was doing
"You're asking me that now? I just saw my boyfriend with a stake through his heart" she snapped glaring at Iris, who rolled her eyes
"I get that, but I also understand that you don't really care for him"
"You know nothing about me" she scowled
"Iris stop" Elena hissed
"Do you know the password?" Iris persisted ignoring Elena.
"Who do you think you are?" Alice spat and stood up, the girl was a couple of inches taller than Iris, and the raven head sighed and met her glare straight on.
"I know who I am" she answered coolly "I'm the person who can get Rose to turn you" she felt the angry glare from the vampire "if you give us the password"
With that Alice ran past Iris and headed straight for the computer typing away
"Why'd you do that?" Elena asked
"I'm not turning her" Rose hissed, Iris rolled her eyes
"I know that, you guys know that but does she?" Iris muttered, a smirk came across Rose's face
"Wow, you're devious"
"Only when I have to be" Iris answered, Elena shook her head as they made their over to Alice and the computer.
"All his works been wiped out" Alice stated, causing Iris to groan typical she thought nothing could ever go the easy way.
"Probably by whoever killed him" Rose stated as Elena rubbed her temples in frustration
"Lucky for you Slater was paranoid everything was back up on his mote server"
Iris leant forward with the other two seeing dozens of files pop up onto the computer
"Wow, all these are leads to vampires?" Elena asked astonished
"Slater was obsessed almost as much as me" Alice revealed, Iris eyed her
"That's not healthy" she mumbled as Rose pointed out
"What about him Cody Webber, they exchanged dozen of emails about Elijah" Rose said,
"I could call him" Alice offered
Elena nodded as Alice grabbed the phone and started to dial "Tell him we're trying to send a message to Klaus and that the doppelganger is willing to surrender"
"What?" Rose gasped as Alice walked away
"What the hell are you doing?" Iris snapped her eyes narrowed at the brunette
"I'm getting Klaus's attention" Elena said casually
"If he finds you he will kill you" Rose said in alarm. Iris shook her head
"I'm counting on it" Elena said
"What's wrong with you?" Iris scowled getting slightly angry "We're only supposed to get information, not bloody hand you over to a psycho vamp who wants to sacrifice you"
"Why would you want to do that?" Rose asked seeing the raven head about to lose her temper, she decided to step in.
"It's either me or my family"
"So this whole charade was some suicide mission so you could sacrifice and save everybody else?" Rose asked
"You sacrificed your freedom for Trevor, and I'm betting he would have died sooner if it weren't for you. I thought out of everyone you'd understand"
"And I do but-" but before she could finish Alice entered the room with a big smile on her face
"Cody is on his way, and he's really excited to meet you" Elena nodded and looked over to the silent raven head, who had her back turned
"Iris-"
"Shut up" Iris snapped and turned around, Elena was startled at the look of pure fury on her friend's face "You were planning this the whole time weren't you? You told me that we were just going to get information. You lied to me" Elena saw the hurt look on her face
"Iris I-"Elena reached out to her but Iris shook her head taking a step back
"No I don't want to hear it" and with that Iris stormed away into another room.
A frown marred Elena's face
"You do know that if Klaus or his goons do show up, you're not the only one who'd be taken. He'll get her as well"
Elena sighed "I know I just thought that-"
"What? That she'd go willingly, I may not know her as well as you do but she seems like a fighter remember the way she'd taken on Trevor"
Elena sighed wondering if she did make a mistake.
Iris poured herself a glass of water, she was parched her mind was going a mile a minute, everything was literally going downhill, she'd found that Damon had spiked her drinks just to get information about her, she was hurt since she'd thought they had become close friends if he wanted to know about her and she didn't want to say, she thought he would have respected her decision but he hadn't. And now Elena had tricked her into coming here and wanted to hand herself over to Klaus.
She finished off her water and pulled out her cell, thinking perhaps it'd be best if she called Damon or Stefan since they could definitely stop Elena.
"Iris-"she shoved her phone back into her pocket and spun around facing Elena
"Yes?" she asked stiffly, Elena sighed and wetted her lips
"Look I'm sorry about tricking you-"
"Lying to me" Iris muttered under her breath
Elena nodded "I'm sorry for lying to you, I just can't risk anyone I love get hurt-"
"But Damon and Stefan will find a-"
"No they won't" Elena said stubbornly "I just can't risk it Iris, please understand?"
Brown orbs met emerald ones, Iris bit her bottom lip and folded her arms across her chest, she did understand in an odd way, but Iris had spent the last seven years fighting for those she cared about and she felt like Elena was simply giving up
"Please Iris understand"
Iris sighed and nodded "I do"
A relieved smile came across Elena's face and she pulled the raven head in to a hug, which she returned
"I'm still mad at you for lying though"
Elena chuckled "We go out for dinner and it's on me, how about that?"
A smile broke out across Iris's face "Sure that'll do"
"So if you want you can go, I won't tell them anything about you-"
"Pfft as if I'm leaving you" Iris shook her head "you're my friend and I stick by those" she walked passed her "even if they are sometimes arse holes"
Elena smiled and shook her head and followed after Iris.
Iris yawned she was currently lying down on the couch, it had gotten dark and they were still waiting for Cody to show up
"Is he even coming?" Iris asked
"Alice said she called him" Elena said from the window, Iris yawned again
"Fine" she was staring up but immediately sat up when she heard Elena gasping "what? What is it?" Iris asked getting on to her feet,
"Nothing, nothing" Elena answered and faced away from the window, Iris frowned she could tell that something had clearly startled the brunette.
"Are you sure?" the raven head saw a frown marred Elena's face she was looking at someone, Iris turned around and saw Damon who was giving both teen girls a menacing glare
"What are you doing here?" Elena asked her voice shook slightly
"What-" Iris was cut off
"Iris why-"
Iris shook her head "I didn't call him" she scowled just then Rose entered "she did" she uttered softly
"You said you understood" Elena said to Rose with a hint of hurt in her tone
"She lied" Damon snapped
"Well she's not the only liar here" Iris muttered, he growled and zoomed towards Iris appearing in front of her
"Iris, I'm sorry-"
"Screw you" Iris snapped glaring fiercely at him, before Damon could reply Alice came into the room
"Damon Salvatore" Alice announced
"Get rid of her" he ordered
"No way" Alice snapped but she was dragged away by Rose. Elena stepped forward whilst Iris stepped backwards
"Come on" Damon said "We're leaving"
"No" Elena snapped
Iris sighed and dropped back down on to the couch knowing that both Elena and Damon would argue back and forth.
"I said we're leaving" he bit out
"And I said no. I'm not going with you" Elena replied glaring at him. Iris rubbed her temples she knew she would end up with a headache at the end of this day.
"Look Damon it's her choice you-"
"Shut up" Damon snapped at the raven head who scowled at him
"Dick" she mumbled huffing and folded her arms in front of her chest and stood up
"You do not get to make any decisions anymore neither of you" he snarled,
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Iris hissed "you don't tell me what to do-"but before she could finish her sentence his hand shot out and grabbed her upper arm
"I'm your friend" he stared fiercely into her eyes "so I repeat we're leaving"
"No" Iris attempted to tug her arm free "you're not listening, I can make my own decisions I've been doing it for the last couple of years ergo I do not need you"
Damon felt a pang go through him when she said that, he knew that she had every right to be mad but despite what happened he was still going to look out for her.
"She's right, you don't make decisions we can make our own" Elena piped in, causing Damon to look at her, he laughed sarcastically
"And who's going to save your life while you go out making decisions?" he smirked
"You're not listening" Elena cried out "I don't want to be saved" this earned her a surprised look from the vampire "not if it means that Klaus is going to kill every person I love"
"I'm with her" Iris uttered out, making Damon's head snapped towards her, he pulled the smaller girl closer to him
"You? Why the hell-"
"Piss off" Iris eyes darken anger was brewing within her "She didn't even tell me what was going down till I arrived, but hey at least she told me the truth in the end. You couldn't even do that. So back off, I'm with Elena on this"
"Get out that door before I throw you over my shoulder and carry you out myself" he hissed menacingly his grip tighten on her and abruptly let her go, Iris sighed in relief and massaged her arm, knowing it would leave a bruise.
"You wouldn't dare" Iris spat at him, Damon growled, Elena shifted feeling like that something had happened between in the pair.
"Last chance" he warned
"No" Iris said through gritted teeth as he grabbed her arm again, Iris swung her fist out trying to hit him but he easily dodged it, she vaguely heard Elena gasping
Iris winced as he applied pressure and glared at him, he leant forward till his temple touched hers "Never do that again" he warned
Iris mutely nodded slightly afraid at the look he was giving her, he lightly pushed her on to the couch and with a look at Elena the brunette joined Iris on the couch
"Now stay here otherwise you'll regret it" both teens nodded fearing what he would do if they disobeyed him, he stalked off in the direction where Rose had taken Alice
"Iris did something happened between you and Damon?" Elena asked quietly, Iris cocked an eyebrow
"Is it that obvious?" she drawled, Elena's lips pressed in a firm line and nodded "we're having an argument"
"Must be some argument, you two never been like that before, what happened?" she asked interested
"Hmm, he lied to and ergh" she shook her head "I just don't want to talk about it"
Elena sighed and nodded "well if you do you can always come to me"
"I know" she muttered as Rose stepped out of the room sitting on Iris's other side, Iris sighed and leant her head back resting it on the couch. "We're in trouble"
"You think?" Elena whispered as Damon emerged, Iris spotted Alice on the bed out cold
"You didn't kill her did you?" Iris asked
"Give me more credit than that" Damon scoffed, but rolled his eyes seeing the look that the raven head was giving him. "No, she sound asleep and will forget that this horribly stupid day ever happened, so come on time to go"
"Fine" Iris huffed and stepped around Damon and headed towards the door she was just about to open the door when it was flung open; she hurriedly took a step back as three men stood in front of her in triangular formation.
"We're here to meet the doppelganger" the man on the left said, however the one in the centre was eyeing Iris "and to take the girl" he nodded towards Iris
"Hey I don't-"
"Thank you for coming" Elena said about to step around Damon but he grabbed her by the arm, Iris could hear a scuffle behind her, her focus however was on the men
"There's nothing for you here" Damon said coolly
"Fine, we'll take the girl" the man in the centre grabbed Iris by her dainty wrist
"Hell no" Iris snapped annoyed with everyone always grabbing or dragging her, she kicked the man hard in the shin causing him to grunt and let go.
"You little-" but he was cut off Iris backed up as he chocked and fell to the ground, her eyes widened seeing who was there
"Elijah" she breathed, his eyes instantly met her eyes
Damon tensed as the Original vampire moved to stand beside the other two men, Iris wasn't really surprised when Rose used her vampire super speed and ran
"I killed you" Damon snapped "you were dead"
"For centauries now" he simply replied "who are you?"
Iris thought for a vampire he was actually rather polite,
"Who are you?" the guy retorted
"I'm Elijah"
Iris could tell that they knew him as they both gulped "we were going to bring both of them too you, she's the doppelganger and the other fits the descriptions that'd been around for more than a few decades, can you smell her?" his nose twitched, Iris cringed when the man went to take a whiff of her scent, but Elijah cleared his throat "I don't know how they exists but both of them do"
"Does anyone else know you're here?" Elijah asked hearing the raven head's heart thrumming.
"No" the man answered
"Then you have been incredibly helpful" Iris gasped as he hands shot out into their chest and ripped their hearts out. Iris wetted her lips as Elijah swiftly moved forwards and looked at her face, his lips tugged upwards
"I'll be seeing you soon, don't get into any trouble" he murmured and in a blur he was gone. Iris let out a breath and turned around towards Damon and Elena
"Well that was weird" Iris commented her heart beat was going back to normal. Damon zoomed over to her he gripped her shoulders lightly
"Are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?" Damon asked concern seeping through him Iris shook her head
"I'm fine"
"Good" he hummed and pressed his lips onto her temple "that's good"
Iris felt a warmth go through her as she was reminded how much he cared for her.
"What are you doing?" Iris asked as Damon pulled away they watched as Elena went back over to the computer
"Well that was an epic failure, so I have to call someone else" Elena answered simply.
"Elena just stop" Iris sighed and wasn't all that startled when Damon threw the desk and the computer onto the ground, smashing it into pieces
"What-"
"Don't say I didn't warn you"
Iris rolled her eyes "I'm going to wait in the car" she ambled out of the room. Iris was lost in her thoughts and knew that out of the whole day she learned one thing for sure, she would definitely be seeing Elijah again.
Iris yawned as Damon pulled up onto the Gilbert porch
"Thanks for the ride" Iris muttered as she unbuckled herself, Damon glanced at her from over his shoulder and sent her a small smile
"Well couldn't leave both of you stranded now could I? your ride left you"
"It's not her fault" Iris defended Rose "she was scared, can't blame her, she's been on the run for five hundred years" Iris climbed out of the car
"Iris you want to come in for some dinner?" Elena offered her
"Sure, feeling rather peckish now" Iris smiled and followed her up the porch steps with Damon on her heels
"I can't believe that Elijah's alive-"
"You and me both" Iris uttered as Elena unlocked the front door
"Why do you think he killed those vampires and let us go?" the brunette asked
Iris simply shrugged "He doesn't seem that bad"
Damon scoffed at that and lightly shoved her "my ass, did you see him rip those hearts out?"
Iris pouted and rolled her eyes "whatever"
"What you both did today was incredibly stupid" Damon snapped causing both girls to halt
"Well-"
"I'm just going to head in" Iris said not wanting to get involve
"Oh no you don't, you've got some explaining to do you young lady" he scolded
"All I heard was blah, blah and more blah" Iris grinned cheekily and flounced away into the Gilbert house.
"Hey Jere" Iris smiled seeing the younger teen, but her smile slid off when she saw his face
"What's wrong?" she asked approaching him her eyes widened when she saw his neck wound, she gently ran the tips of her fingers over it "what happened?" just then Elena entered the room
"Jeremy" she said frantically running over to him
"What happened?" Iris repeated
"I'm so sorry Elena"
"What?" Elena asked
"It's Stefan….he's stuck in the tomb" Iris felt her heart dropped knowing that the vampire couldn't get out, she saw Elena's face dropped and before Iris could stop her Elena ran out of the house
"ELENA" Iris shouted and ran after her, she didn't spot Damon getting back out of his car as her mind was focused on the brunette, Iris tumbled over the fallen branches and ran after Elena in the woods, Iris had just managed to grab on to her arm before she entered the tomb, "Elena stop" Iris dug her heels into the ground
"STEFAN" Elena screamed trying to wiggle out of Iris's grip "STEFAN" she pushed Iris back causing her to fall to the ground, she landed on bum and grunted.
"Bloody hell, ELENA STOP" she shouted but was relieved when Damon showed up, he slammed the thin girl against the wall
"Don't you dare" he growled, Iris scrambled on to her feet and peeked into the tomb but saw nothing but darkness
"Damon Stefan is in there" Elena snapped trying to wrestle out of his grip "how could you let this happen?"
Iris was slightly affronted by that, it was Damon's fault that Stefan got stuck in there. Obviously Damon was thinking the same way that Iris did
"My fault? How is this my fault I was too busy saving your and Iris's ass" Damon hissed
"It was your idea-" Iris saw that the pair was busy so decided to head inside into the tomb. Her footsteps echoed around the stone walls,
"Stefan?" she whispered and gasped when she found herself pinned against the wall
"Iris, what the hell are you doing here?" Stefan growled
"I just heard what happened and wanted to let you know that there are no hard feelings" she stuttered out, and was relieved when his grip loosened
"I'm sorry for the part I played in it" he murmured against the crown of her head she hugged him
"I forgive you" she murmured against his neck. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her against his chest
"Isn't this adorable"
"I should be saying sorry to you in fact" Iris smirked pulling back
"What?" Stefan asked furrowing his brows in confusion and tensed as Katherine appeared wearing a wicked smirk on her face but it dropped when she heard Iris's next few words
"For being entombed with the psychotic bitch"
Katherine snarled and went to lunge for her but Stefan gripped Iris around the waist and literally threw her out of the tomb in Damon's waiting arms.
"You really are on a suicide mission aren't you? Go straight home" he ordered, Iris sighed and nodded "and try not to kill yourself in the process of doing that" he called after her
"What? I hate that cow she's just ergh" Iris pouted and shook her head earning a light chuckle from Damon "By Stef and good luck" she called over her shoulder and headed out.
Iris had changed out of her clothes and was now wearing a pair of sleeping shorts and a tank top, she had spoken to Elena earlier and knew that the girl was broken up over Stefan being stuck and decided to see the brunette in the morning. Iris quickly brushed her hair and pulled it into a messy bun; she skipped downstairs and see if there was anything she scrounge up from the pantry.
She ended up grabbing a boxful of pop tarts and walked outside swinging on her porch swing; she rested one foot on the railing and started to push herself. Iris bit into the treat and leant her head back staring up in to the starry sky. She felt a shudder go down her spine, times like these reminded her of how lonely she was, sure she had friends but they had their own lives to be getting on with, Iris glanced over to the Gilbert's place and saw a few lights were on.
"Flower" a familiar voice called, Iris looked and saw Damon at the bottom of her porch steps
"What do you want?" she asked biting into another pop tart, he sighed and sat down next to her, she huffed as he grabbed her box of snacks and started to eat them
"I'm sorry" he simply replied, her hand froze halfway to her mouth, she looked at him and could see that he was sincere "I am sorry Iris, what I did was-"
"Moronic? Deceitful? Completely out of order-"he covered her mouth with his hand and chuckled
"All those things" he nodded in agreement "I am Sorry and I won't tell anyone your secret"
She looked at him confused "What?"
"You was a witch" he answered, Iris's eyes widened at that, she didn't remember saying that, but then again there was a lot she couldn't remember from that night
"So you know-"
"That somehow you came back to the world of the living? Yeah I do and so does Stefan, we won't breath a word of it to anyone, plus the world would be a dull one if you weren't in it"
A relieved smile came across her face; she also blushed at his comment
"Thank you Damon"
He leant in close to her and gently stroked aside one of her fallen curls and cupped her cheek
She looked at him blankly causing his guts to lurch, a slow smile spread across her face "I forgive you" she whispered, a wide grin came across his face and without further ado kissed her sloppily on the cheek
"Ew Damon" she shrieked laughing, as he laid ticklish kisses all over her face "stop, stop" she said in between bouts of giggles
Damon chuckled and pulled back "thank you Iris, you are one of the few true friends I have"
Iris nodded and lightly ran her finger down his cheek "I know, you'll probably have a few more if you don't piss everyone off"
He lightly swatted her and smirked mischievously "what-"he ruffled her hair
"Damon" she shouted as he zoomed off, Iris grumbled under her breath "why does everyone go for the hair" she stood up and decided to head to bed.
AN: There ya go thanks for the reviews, Iris couldn't stay mad at Damon for long, she got pissed at Elena though...Elijah made a brief appearance here.
he'll return in the next chapter again, so stay tuned
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