Iris paced up and down in her living room nervous as hell. She had kept her hands busy by baking that always managed to sooth her. She jumped when the oven timer beeped and shook her head at her paranoia, Iris padded barefooted into her kitchen and peeked into the oven and saw that the cookies she had baked was nice and browned, she slipped on the oven mitts and carefully pulled it out
She smiled as she inhaled the delicious aroma, and placed it on the counter, just then there was a loud knock on her door causing her to jump.
"Bloody hell" she muttered and brushed away her stray curls away from her face and quickly hurried to answer the door. Her hand gripped the door knob.
"I'm so going to regret this" she muttered under her breath, and then proceeded to pull open the door.
"Iris" he nodded
"Elijah" her brows furrowed he was familiar
"Are you going to invite me in?" he cocked an eyebrow, she saw that he had several duffle bags, meaning that he would be here for a while
"To be honest I don't really want to" she said bluntly, causing a small smile to appear on the Original's face
"Well it may come across as suspicious if you do not, after all you're my host" he leant against the doorway,
"Fine" she folded her arms across her chest "Elijah won't you please come in" she stepped aside to allow him in, he reached down and scooped up his bags "Do you need help?" as soon as that question left her mouth she wanted to mentally slap herself
"Honestly sweetheart?-"
"Yeah, yeah it was a stupid question" she muttered "Come on I'll show to your room"
Elijah was slightly impressed at how Iris was faring, she pushed opened a dark oak door and gestured for him to come in
"So here it is" Iris licked her lips and watched as Elijah studied the room
"Impressive for someone who lives alone" he commented dropping his bags on to the floor
"What are you really going here?" Iris asked breaking the tense silence
Elijah turned around and zoomed forward causing her to gasp and jump back, she inwardly cringed when she realised that she had unknowingly back herself into the wall, he could hear her heart beat faster, she flinched when he raised his hand to her face causing him to frown
"You do not need to fear me"
"How can I not?" she asked softly emerald orbs meeting oak brown, "after witnessing you rip out a group of vampires hearts"
He hummed and gently cupped her face, and leant down slightly so that his lips brushed her temple. "That I did-"
"Why though? I thought that you would want to break this curse or get Klaus-" he sighed and shook his head
"I think we need to talk" he uttered and went back towards his bag, she tucked in a stray curl and followed after him and sat down on the edge of the bed. Elijah dropped one of the bags on to the bed beside her and began to unpack "So are you going to say why you killed those vampires who wanted to take Elena-"
"They were not just after her, you as well" he snapped
"Yeah right why-"
"Because KIaus has been searching for you far longer" he revealed "and so have I" he admitted making her frown
"But why?" she asked frowning
"Because you and Elena are the key to breaking the curse" he said as he placed his shirts into the empty chest of drawers
"I don't see how am I the key since-"
"You was a witch were you not?" Iris head snapped up at that
"How did you-"but he ignored her question "you're the essence of magic my dear, you reek of it, you as well as the werewolf, vampire and doppelganger are required for the ritual"
Iris was miffed at that; she was the essence of magic what the hell did that mean?
"But I thought you'd would want to break the curse?" she asked confused
"Klaus is the most feared and hated of the Originals but those who fear him are desperate for his approval. He already knows you exists as he should but he does not know where, neither does he know about the doppelganger, my goal is not to break the curse"
Iris fiddled with the zipper of his duffel bag, "so what is your goal?"
"Klaus's obsession-"
"You mean with breaking the curse?" he arched his eyebrow, she blushed "right carry on"
"Right Klaus's obsession made him paranoid and an recluse, he trusts those only in his immediate circle" she swore she heard him mutter "like you were" but brushed it off
"I'm guessing you're in his circle" she said and saw an old battered novel, he saw what had caught her attention and proceeded to pull out the book
"I was but not anymore" he handed her the novel earning a curious look from her, he smirked
"You're easy to read Iris, and you haven't changed at all thus I doubt your interest in books hadn't changed"
"Wait, how- I never met you" she shook her head
"Yes you have" he said coolly "you're a paradox, there's so much more to you, soon enough you'll learn all about that if I'm correct"
Iris saw that he wouldn't speak more on this certain subject, she looked down at the novel and lightly brushed the tips of her fingers over the cover, and she was pulled into a sudden vision
Iris looked around and was shocked at what she saw, a woman who was sitting in an arm chair with a novel, the room had a rustic look to it, it looked as it was in a different era. But what drew her in was that she was holding the same novel Elijah had given her, Iris eyes widened when she managed to see the woman's face. It was her.
Iris gasped and met a pair of concerned brown eyes
"Iris look at me" he was holding her face in between his hands, he studied her eyes and realised what had happened "You're beginning to remember"
"I don't understand"
He smiled and softly brushed aside a fallen curl "In time you will, you're not just an ex-witch you are something much more, something magical and wonderful, no being is like you"
"If you know why can't you tell me?" she asked pulling her face away from his grasp getting frustrated
"Now isn't the right time"
"Ergh, you're so" he was amused to see her grab the pillow and shoved it against her face, he reached forward and easily tugged it away from her
"You will find out, that I can assure you, just be patience, you've got all the time in the world" he chuckled, she frowned he definitely knew something that she did not but decided to drop it, thinking it wouldn't be a good idea to question the man who slapped a vampire's head off.
"But why are you here then?" her eyes widened in realisation "you don't know where Klaus is do you?"
"You're smart I'll give you that" he commented. Iris swung her legs back and forth
"So what? You're trying to draw him out using me and Elena?"
Elijah simply looked at her "when he learns where you are he will come running"
"But why?" Iris frowned licking her lips
"As I said you learn that soon, but for now you have to trust me"
"Kind of hard to, when you're being so bloody cryptic" she muttered causing him to chuckle "how do I know to trust you?"
"Because if I weren't being truthful your friends as well as Elena's family would be dead and I would be taking you both to KIaus, but instead I'm here, I offered Elena a deal, one which I think you would appreciate"
Iris cocked an eyebrow at that, he had finished unpacking his bags and sat down beside her, and she felt his thigh pressed against hers
"What kind of deal?" she asked
"That you and Elena would do nothing"
"Well it wasn't my idea to jump in to this" Iris murmured, he lightly gripped her chin forcing her to look at him
"And I do not want you to participate in anything outrageous nor dangerous" he ordered, she frowned this definitely irked her nerves, she hated being told what to do
"You have no right to-"but was cut off when he pinned her to the bed with his body
"I have every right" he growled "do nothing, do not put yourself in unnecessary danger, you are far too valuable then you know"
"Fine" Iris grunted finding it slightly hard to breathe "now if you would so kindly get off of me"
"You agree? Not to put-"
"Yes. Yes" Iris cut him off and was relieved when he did. She sat up and sent him a glare which amused him, did she realise that she was the most unthreatening creature here compared to him? He thought
"So what's the deal, besides do nothing?" Iris asked
"Do nothing, live your life and stop fighting. Then when the time is right" he was now walking around the room touching all the trinkets on display "you, I and Elena shall draw out Klaus together and I shall make certain that your friends remained unharmed"
"Then what?" Iris asked wondering why was he so set on making sure that this curse wasn't broken, she wasn't complaining though, she would rather not be used as a sacrifice
"Then I will kill him" she saw a dark smirk on his face
"Just like that?"
"Just like that" he repeated "I'm a man of my word Iris, and when I make a deal I keep a deal"
Iris nodded and canted her head to the side "So you're a man of honour?"
Elijah smirked, recalling that she had asked him that exact same question more than a few decades ago, he nodded
"Question though" Iris said "how are you going to make sure everyone stays safe?"
"I noticed that you have a friend with special abilities"
"I have several friends with special abilities" Iris muttered thinking of the vampires with then enhanced strength and speed
He leant against the wall "magical abilities" he clarified
"You know witches?"
"Indeed I do, and together we can protect everyone you care about" Iris nodded that made sense she'd rather have an Original vampire on their side. But there was a nagging feeling in the back of her mind that there was something more to this curse
"It's a deal" Iris held out his hand for him to shake, she felt the slight shot of warmth go through when their skin made contact and blushed when he flipped her hand over and laid a kiss on the back of her hand
"You really are a gentleman aren't you?" she mused and felt her skin tingle slightly
"Only when there is a lady around" she giggled and shook her head
"Right, well are you hungry…for food I'm not offering myself because that would be weird and gross and erm-"
"Iris breath" he chuckled, she rubbed the back of her neck and smiled sheepishly
"Right I'm babbling aren't I?"
"I find it endearing" he said, Iris stood up and moved over to the door
"Some would say annoying" she muttered "I'll leave you to get settled in"
Iris was swinging on the porch swing, sipping her tea Elijah had been in his room for the last half an hour which was a small relief but she felt slightly annoyed she was incredibly curious about him, she was thinking why was Elijah dead set against this curse.
"Iris"
"Stefan" Iris cried and jumped onto her feet. He staggered backwards slightly as she launched herself in to his arms
"So I take it that you're pleased to see me?" he chuckled, she pulled back grinning
"What gave it away" she lightly slapped his arm
"Hey what-"
"That's for getting stuck in the tomb in the first place" he smiled and shook his head
"Plus I can't cope with just Damon around"
He laughed at that, and lightly tugged one of her raven curls
"How'd you get out of it in the first place?"
"Well-"
"That would be me" Iris spun around on her heel and saw Elijah leaning against the doorway, looking casual with his hands in the pockets of his slacks, his eyes had darkened and she saw that they were on Stefan's hand which was lingering by her throat. She could feel the atmosphere growing tense
"You invited him in?" Stefan hissed she winced when his hand gripped harder on her shoulder
"Well you see- ELIJAH" Iris shouted as the older vampire slammed the younger vampire against the wall
"Do not test me, touch her again and you will be dead, regardless of the deal" Elijah growled so low that Iris didn't hear "am I making myself clear?"
Stefan gulped and nodded and with that Elijah was gone in a blur of movement inside the house.
"Are you ok?" she asked concern seeping from her, he nodded
"Sorry about-"
"Forget about it" Iris brushed off his apology, "had no clue he was going to react like that"
"Me neither" Stefan had saw the protective look in Elijah's eyes; whoever Iris was to the Original she was definitely important "so why is he staying with you?"
"That would be Carol Lockwood's doing?" he cocked an eyebrow so Iris explained further "she decided that I should play host to Mystic Falls new resident"
"Wow"
"I know" Iris sighed
"Well call me if anything happens, I mean anything" he reiterated, she nodded as he laid a kiss on her temple
"I'll see you later" she nodded and watched as he zoomed off.
Iris entered the house irritated at what had went down on the porch, she slammed the door shut behind her
"What the hell was that about?" she snapped they were in the kitchen
"I have no idea what you are talking about" he said calmly,
"Ergh" Iris shook her head "you know what, the way you treated Stefan" she waited as moved around the kitchen as if he knew the ins and outs of it. She sighed and knew that she wasn't going to get an answer. Iris dropped down on to a stool; it was odd having someone else here. "What are you doing?" she asked seeing him rummaging through her cupboards and jumped when she heard the kettle whistling loudly, Iris watched wide eye as he blurred around the kitchen, in the next second there was a steaming mug of tea set in front of her
"You made tea?" she arched an eyebrow
"Indeed I did" he sat down beside her, and watched on in amusement as Iris eyed the tea as if she was expecting it to jump out on her
"It's not poisonous" he smirked, when he saw that she still didn't move he grabbed the mug and took a gulp "There"
Iris rolled her eyes "that doesn't make me feel better, you're a vampire even if was poisonous you won't-"
"Just drink it" he cut her off, she sighed and grabbed the mug and took a sip
"Wow, this is good" she uttered and gulped down the rest of it "So what's the different between you and an average vampire?" she asked as she ran her fingers around the edge of her mug,
"As an Original I'm the first generation of vampires-"
"So is Klaus?"
"Yes, we are much harder to kill a simple stake in the heart won't do it"
"Yeah I think I got that" she drawled
"Do you want me to tell you or not?" he snapped she sure hadn't changed he idly thought
"Sir yes Sir" she barked and giggled at the baffled look on his face "it's a joke Elijah, try and relax"
"Yes" she could see that he was un-amused "as I was saying to kill an Original is nearly impossible-"
"Ah it can be done then?"
Elijah smirked "I am not going to divulged valuable information to you Iris; I don't want you to do anything reckless"
She snorted "I'm not stupid enough to go against you" she muttered, he chuckled
"But your friends are"
"That they are, so do you have any tricks?"
"I can compel other vampires" he revealed
"Really?" she asked he nodded, "that's impressive, so you know you said you knew me from-"
"My lips are sealed, it slowly beginning to unravel in your own mind"
"Ergh" she pouted causing a small smile to come across Elijah's face "fine, I'm going to bed, I would say it was nice chatting to you but you're frustrating" and with that she walked off
Elijah smirked and shook his head "Goodnight Iris" he called
"Goodnight" he heard her dulcet tone.
"Wonderful, how can this day get any worse" Iris muttered having dropped her basket in the bizarre, she had to hurry back since Ester was waiting for the items she had gotten and it was getting dark, she knew that the others particularly Niklaus and Elijah would be on her case, and lecture her. She knelt down and plucked up the fallen items and shoved them in to the basket, but froze when she heard a twig snap behind her.
From the corner of her eye she could several shadows coming up behind her, she quickly got on to her feet and spun around and felt her heart thump harder when she saw that there were three drunk men, who luckily hadn't spotted her, she could see that they were clearly drunk. Iris slowly backed away not wanting to draw attention to herself but cringed when her booted foot stepped on a large branch
"Lookie here" one of the larger men slurred "are ye lost girlie?"
"No" she replied calmly but on the inside she was nervous as hell "So if you excuse me"
"Wait" a blond man called, she vaguely recognised him from hanging around with Kol
"No I-"but she was cut off when he lunged forward and grabbed her arm, her eyes widened when she saw the dagger he had, she froze when she felt the tip of it against her throat
"Hmm you're a pretty little thing" the dark haired man leered, Iris gagged at the smell of him "Now be a nice little girl and-"Iris kneed him in the groin causing him to grunt and abruptly let
"I was never a nice little girl" she spat and took off down the dirt covered pathway
"Hey"
"GET HER" she heard one of the scream, making her pick up her speed, Iris looked over her shoulder and saw that they were gaining on her, she mentally cursed herself for having a small stature, she yelped when she crashed into something hard causing her to land on her bottom
"Niklaus-" she was cut off when he grabbed her not too gently off of the ground
"Where the hell have you been?" he growled, she saw that Finn, Kol and Elijah had accompanied him
"Out" she snapped pulling herself away
"I can-"
"Is that blood?" Elijah stepped forward; Iris knew he was the more rational one out of the brothers beside Finn of course
"Yes now can we leave be-"
"There she is" Iris clenched her eyes shut and felt Niklaus's grip tightened on her,
"Hey boy let the girl go, we wanna have some fun with her, she is a pretty little thing"
Iris was shoved behind and saw the brothers standing in front of her protectively
"She's with us" Elijah spoke his eyes hard, they narrowed in on the small dagger he was holding
"Can't you share?" the blond leered "I want a piece of that"
Kol snorted "You really are as stupid as you look, isn't that right brothers?"
"Indeed it is" Finn glared
"Oh come on, she's a small thing you might not get much out of her after we have a few rounds with her but-"
"You're a bastard, tell me can't you get any girls willingly or better yet you can, but you can't keep it up for long? If you know what I mean" Iris drawled
"You little-"he stepped forward but in a flash Niklaus had his sword up and it was digging into the man's flesh
"I don't think it's best if you finish that sentence" Niklaus snarled
"You think I'm scared of you" the blond man snorted without another word Niklaus swiftly punched him hard and fast in the face
"Word of advice Iris, don't try and rile up those who wouldn't think twice about harming you" Elijah said
Iris scoffed "Niklaus and Kol do it all the time"
"Yes we do sweetness, but we know when to push our limits, plus you're a tiny little thing" Kol smirked, Iris snorted
"You have limits?"
"Touché" he grinned and quickly moved ahead to aid his brother, with Finn on his tail, Iris moved forward but Elijah grabbed hold of her upper arm
"Iris, I'm warning you-"
"Fine I'll stay here" she cut him off and folded her arms across her chest, he sent her a wink and left her there.
Iris groaned waking up, she sat up confused recalling the dream, she saw Elijah there with several men but for some reason the dark haired man stuck out, she pushed it to the back of her mind, thinking it was just an odd dream, it wasn't like she didn't have one of them before. She rubbed the sleepiness out of her eyes and stretched her arms above her head, Iris swung her legs out of her bed and spotted a crisp white note on her nightstand
She picked it up and unfolded it reading the elegant script.
'Iris, gone out for the day, have some business to take care of.
Should be back by the evening.
Stay out of trouble
Elijah'
Iris frowned wondering what business did Elijah have to take care of, she sighed running her fingers through her messy curls. She padded barefooted over to her bathroom to get ready for the day. Iris went through her usual morning routine and had a quick shower. The petite teen was just drying off when her cell rang, Iris quickly wrap the towel around herself and ran towards her bedroom
"Hello?" Iris answered
"Iris-"
"Stefan? What's up?" she was confused and glanced over at the time
"Could you come over?" she heard him.
"Sure" Iris hanged up wondering what was going on, she slipped on her underwear and rummaged through her closet and decided to wear a pair of white capris shorts and a light green top. She ran the brush through her thick hair and braided it.
Iris made sure she had her keys and locked the door behind her and made her way to her battered blue ford.
Iris buckled herself in and tore out of the driveway.
She pulled up to the boarding house and turned the engine off. Iris was about to knock on the door but before she could the door opened
"Does anyone lock their doors" she muttered under her breath, Iris walked in and shut it behind her "Stefan?" she called thinking where the hell was the vampire, she did a quick look around the bottom floor and didn't see any sign of the vampire, Iris went to look upstairs and heard a noise coming from one of the room, she recognised one of the voices as Stefan's and without thinking she barged into his room
"There you-Holy Merlin-" she spun around seeing Stefan and Elena in a compromising position "Why does no one lock the bloody doors" she slapped her hands over her eyes and turned around but keeping her hand firmly over her eyes
"Iris what are you doing here?" Elena asked both hers and Stefan's lips twitched in amusement when they saw the raven head's blooming pink cheeks
"Iris we're decent" Stefan called out but yet Iris still had her hands over her eyes
"Yeah good to know, but I'm just going to…yeah, don't want to…..why'd you call me for Stefan?" Iris snapped flustered "I swear if it's to watch you two do this" she gestured wildly to them "then you're sick and-"
"Iris no we lost track of time" Elena cut her off; damn she thought the girl sure did have a wild imagination. Stefan was immensely amused at how flustered the little raven head was, she sure was innocent he mused.
"So why am I here exactly?" she asked still not turning around
"Iris you can turn around we're not flashing-"
"Nope" she snapped "So you're going to tell me?" Iris was staring at the wall and frowned when she spotted something moving along the corridors, must be Damon she thought.
"Stefan wants to go find Isobel" Elena stated,
"Huh?" Iris asked "Isobel as in your vampire biological mother?" she finally turned around and saw that both Stefan and Elena were completely covered up "You can't do that, Elijah-"
"We still have the pressing fact that you two are going to be used as Klaus's sacrifices" Stefan interrupted,
"But he promised to keep all of us safe if we play by his rules" Iris insisted
"You trust him?" Stefan asked slightly surprised, the raven head shrugged
"Oddly enough I do"
"Stefan, Iris does have a point, Elijah and I made a deal that he would keep everyone I love safe if we play by his rules" Elena said looking at Stefan.
"No if you two play by his rules, he said nothing about the rest of us" Stefan shook his head
"You're still going to go anyway aren't you?" Iris asked quirking an eyebrow, the vampire smirked at her
"You know me so well"
Iris rolled her eyes at him but couldn't help but smile.
"Fine here" Elena handed him a glass of water,
"Is that vervaine in there?" Iris asked she was proven right when she saw Stefan's face as he drunk the water
"Yes, Elijah can compel vampires as well-"
"Yeah he told me" Iris said "good luck" she skipped away.
"Should we be concerned that Iris is seemingly getting along so well with Elijah?" Elena asked worried
"This is Iris we are talking about, she can practically make friends with anyone" Stefan grunted trying to push down the burning feeling of the vervaine entering his system.
Iris headed downstairs and made her way into the kitchen, she had come over straight after getting ready so she didn't have breakfast, she thought that the Salvatores wouldn't miss any of their food as they was always stocked up.
She rummaged through the cupboards and managed to find a box of large chocolate chip muffins. Iris grabbed one and looked at the time her eyes widened seeing it, she'd better leave now if she wanted to get to school on time.
Iris just passed the parlour but abruptly stopped at the sight of Rose whose shoulder was red raw and looked horribly blistered
"Sweet Merlin, what happened?" she asked hurrying into the room, Rose jumped and spun around
"Oh it's you" the vampire was confused when she saw the concerned look the raven head was giving her
"So?"
"Werewolf bite" Rose admitted, Iris gasped remembering what she had learnt beforehand, a werewolf's bite was fatal to a vampire
"Who?" she asked
"That'd be Jules" Damon said appearing behind Iris "It's looking better though"
Iris gave him a questioning look, it certainly wasn't she internally thought.
"It is?" Rose asked hopefully,
Iris plastered a smile on to her face and knew what Damon was doing he gave her a grateful look which Rose didn't see as she had gone back to prodding her wounded shoulder.
"Yeah" she nodded "Where are Stefan and Elena? You are aware he's gone to see Isobel, you should talk him out of it, you definitely don't want to piss Elijah off"
"No can do, I'm with Stefan on this, Elena's gone to school" Damon shook his head
"Ergh school" Iris groused at that, she wasn't really up for going in today. Damon smirked
"I've got a proposition"
"You know you would come off much less creepy if you stop doing that eye thing" Iris muttered evidently both Rose and Damon heard he lightly shoved her whilst the female vampire snorted
"She's got a point" Rose nodded
"Go to school" Damon ordered sipping his bourbon
"Aw, I was only joking" Iris whined "just tell me"
"You can play nurse for a while" he said
"No, that's not necessary" Rose insisted
"Pfft Iris would do it won't you? It's no skin off of her back" Damon uttered, Iris smiled at Rose and nodded
"It be no problem"
"Great, see you ladies later" Damon walked out, Iris quickly ran after him
"Damon" Iris called he turned around they were at the door "She's going to die isn't she?" she asked quietly
He nodded "Yes she is" he lightly tugged one of her errant curls "the bite cause some infection or something, it's getting worst"
Iris could see the troubled look in his eyes, she could tell that he obviously cared for her
"I'm sorry" she murmured lightly stroking his cheek, but was startled when he tightly gripped her wrist shoving her back, she stumbled and would have fallen if she didn't catch herself in time against the wall "Damon-"
"Death happens, we come we go, the sooner she dies the better" he snapped, Iris scowled knowing he was putting up a front, she grabbed his arm
"You don't mean that" she snapped
"Sure I do, it's miserable in there" he went to walk off but she grabbed him again
"Damon, you don't need to put up a front, I do know you" she said softly, he sighed and kissed her temple
"I know you do" and with that he blurred away.
Iris sighed and headed back inside to see Rose.
"You actually came back?" Rose asked surprised Iris rolled her eyes
"Course I would, what?" she saw a small smile on the vampire's face
"You're not that bad for a non-vampire, you're friend of Elena's" Iris nodded wondering where she was going with this "well I find her annoying at times"
Iris snorted and giggled "Isn't that the truth, so do you need anything?"
"Can you help me get into bed?" Rose asked, Iris smiled sweetly and nodded hurrying over to her, and then proceeded to support most of the vampire's weight as they slowly made their way upstairs.
Iris managed to get her settled into Damon's bed
"I hate this" Rose grumbled "I'm a vampire, I haven't had a cold in five centuries"
"Well" Iris scoured her brain trying to find something that would lift the vampire's mood, "look at the Brightside, it's a reminder of how being human felt like" she pulled the covers over the wounded vampire. Rose chuckled but to Iris it sounded like she was in pain when she even did that
"Vampires don't get sick, when we die it's quick and sudden and it's certainly not drawn out by an illness" Iris nodded she definitely hadn't heard of this before in all the books she had beforehand, she smoothed down the sheets.
"You're not going to die, there must be a cure or something" Iris insisted
Rose chuckled dryly "I never thought I would meet someone who has so much hope"
Iris looked at her and smiled "well sometimes you have to have it" she shrugged and grabbed the cloth wiping away some of the sweat on the sickly vampire's temple.
"They both love you" Iris shot her a questioning look "Damon and Stefan, they both love you" Rose clarified,
A smile touched Iris's lips "I love them as well, they're like the brothers I never had"
"It's weird who would've guessed it a pair of vampires caring so much for a human, but then again you're not exactly the usual kind of human"
"Do you know me?" Iris asked leaning against Damon's nightstand "I mean when you kidnapped me and Elena did you know-"
"No" Rose coughed "there were rumours floating around about you, Klaus wants you as did Elijah since you're part of breaking the curse" Iris nodded and handed her some of the blood that Damon poured earlier
"Here" the raven head didn't want to push Rose into answering her questions since she was so sick
Rose sent her a thankful smile and took huge gulps of the thick liquid, once she had finished she handed the empty glass back over to Iris who set it aside
"You haven't run" she commented
"I'm not as stupid as Katherine" Iris muttered causing her to laugh "I don't want to risk anyone getting hurt or ended up being dead, I can't have that on my conscience" she said clearly "plus the deal that was made between Elena and Elijah is the best option we have"
"He won't harm you" Rose said causing Iris to frown "Elijah" she clarified "he won't hurt you, from what I heard both Klaus and Elijah have been looking for you for a long time"
This didn't sooth the raven head at all, and made her wonder why that all powerful Originals were looking specifically for her.
"So what am I to them?" Iris asked
"You're valuable from what I gathered, and completely unique" Rose revealed
"Now that doesn't fill me with a nice buzzing feeling" she drawled causing the vampire to laugh which then proceeded into being a cough, Iris quickly jumped in to action and rubbed Rose's back
"You think your witch friend destroyed the moonstone?" Rose asked as Iris helped her lean back into bed
"Bonnie, well from what I heard Elijah's got his own witch, so not sure really" Iris could see that the vampire was exhausted which was weird for her to witness "you should go to sleep Rose"
"Ok" Rose muttered her eyes drifting shut snuggling into the pillow, Iris slowly stood and as silently as she could attempt to leave the room but she froze when Rose jolted
"No wait" the sickly vampire moaned "tell them to prepare the horses" Iris frowned and gently touched the sweaty brow, now this was certainly remarkable, the raven head never would have thought that she would come across a feverish vampire.
"Go to sleep Rose" Iris murmured softly running tips of her fingers over Rose's brows and let out a quiet breath when the vampire sighed and relaxed under her touch. The raven head backed away and was about to leave the room when Rose abruptly sat up causing Iris to nearly jump out of her skin,
"NO Trevor we'll never make it out of the sun" Iris could see that Rose was still asleep, but gasped her eyes snapping open
"Crap" Iris muttered "Rose you-"
"Iris I need more blood" Rose cried out "Iris?"
"Ok, Ok" she ran out towards the basement knowing that Damon kept the blood bags in the freezer. She grabbed a handful of blood bags and ran back upstairs, Rose was literally panting on the bed, Iris handed her a blood and set the others aside she stepped back as Rose tore into the blood bag and drank it heavily, she froze and then all of a sudden started to cough violently Iris felt her stomach lurch when Rose started to upchucking the blood all over Damon's sheets
"It's going to be all right" Iris reassured the dazed vampire and ran into Damon's attached bathroom, she hurried rummaged through his drawers not caring that she was chucking most of his stuff onto floor, she grabbed several hand towels and rushed back into the bedroom "Everything's going- shit" she uttered seeing that Rose wasn't in the bed, she cautiously stepped into the room
"Rose" Iris called she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up, she spun around and gasped when she saw a very hungry looking vampire looking at her "Ro-" she was cut off when Rose's hand shot forward and wrapped it around her delicate throat
"Where is she?" Rose growled her fangs unsheathing "Katerina, where is she?" she lifted Iris off her feet, the raven head spluttered for air "Tell me" Iris gritted her teeth when the vampire's vice like grip tightened, her skin tingled
"ROSE LET GO" Iris managed to scream her eyes were clenched shut but then snapped open revealing brilliant golden orbs.
AN: Thanks for the reviews, some moments between Elijah and Iris, and some insight to what she is
Stefan found out that Elijah's her roomate but can't do much
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