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Chapter 8

"Iris. Look at me." Stefan says. I keep my eyes locked on Damon.
"You know... I've never really liked you." I said to Damon. "And personally... I think stefans life is hell because of you."
"Fun fact I've never liked you Iris." Damon said.
"Damon you're not helping yourself." Elena said. "Iris please." Elena begs.
"Iris please I'm begging you. Look at me." Stefan says. Stefans voice breaks me. I look at him. I see Elena crying.
"You really do look like her." I said to elena.
"Iris. I don't know you. But I know you wouldn't kill the man I love. Don't you have someone that you would do anything to save? You'd risk your own life?" Stefan.
"Yes I do." I say.
"Who is it?" She asked me.
"Elena. I have two people in this world that I would risk absolutely everything for. And one of them just so happens to be my brother Elijah." I said.
"Please let go." Stefan said, grabbing my arm gently. My eyes started to flicker from purple to the normal ice blue. I lower my hand, causing Damon to crash to the ground. Elena ran to his side.
"I can't betray him." I say to Stefan. "He's all I have left."
"Elena, get him out of here." Stefan said. Elena picks him up, walking him outside. I walk over to Elijahs side.
"Brother." I say crying. "Elijah you have to come back. You have to help me. I can't stop him by myself. Elijah please."
"He's gone." Stefan says. I end up collapsing in his arms. "Come one iris. We have to go." I nod and stand up. I place a kiss on my brothers forehead. Stefan walks me out the the car. We both sit in the back.
"Thank you for saving me today." Elena says. I look at her, smiling.
"You're welcome." I say.
"So.. Um.. what's your story?" She asked me. I smiled at her.
"My story?" I asked her. She nodded.
"Yeah. Like Katherine turned Damon and Stefan." I laugh.
"Buckle up.. this is gonna be a long story." I said. She nodded. " so young Elena, I was born in a time before we had a calendar. Hell, even before we had a sense of time. I was born in the good old tenth century." I said to her.
"But that's impossible. I turned you." Stefan said.
      "Well I better give you your memories back." I said.
      "What do you mean?" Stefan said.
       "You'll see." I said, looking him in his eyes. "You're gonna remember the truth." Stefans eyes went cloudy, as all the memories of us rush back to him. No altercations. No lies.
        "Anyway. My mother was a witch, and my father was a brutal man. My parents had seven loving kids, who loved one another. Niklaus, Elijah, Finn, Kol, Rebekah, and Me. We had a youngest brother, but I do not remember his name." I take a deep breath. "Since my mother was a witch, I ended up being the one in the new generation to inherit the gene. Klaus, my eldest brother, got the wolf gene. None of us knew it. Long story short, my youngest brother got mauled by a pack. Killed him while Niklaus watched. We were humans among wolves. We were scared, and alone."
        "So how did you end up being Vampires?" Damon asked.
        "Wouldn't you like to know?" I asked. Stefan took my hand. "Back to the story. My mother wanted to protect us. She wanted us to be strong enough to fight the bloody animals if anything just so happens to happen again. She casted a spell, killing us, turning us.  And with that our senses grew, along with our most prominent behaviors."  
        "What do you mean by prominent behaviors?" Elena asked me.
       "It's kinda hard to explain. Out of my siblings we all have a characteristic that our parents defined us by. Elijah the Honest, Kol the Vengeful, Finn the Humble, Rebekah the Lustful, Klaus the Leader, and Ivanka the Powerful."
         "Oh." Elena said. "Wait so your full name is Ivanka?"
        "You see why I changed it to Iris." She giggled. "Anyway, the day Klaus killed our mother triggered his curse, and triggered mine."
        "You have a curse?" Damon asked.
        "That's the term. But all of my mothers magic filled my body, adding to my own. And since I'm the original witch, I get a percentage of any witches power who dies. That adds up over a thousand years."
       "So what you're telling me, is that you are the most powerful being on the earth?" Damon asked.
        "Yep."
         "Great." Damon said.