I was sitting on the ground in the middle of the woods waiting for Niklaus to come back from his wolf killing spree. Klaus vamp speeds up to Elijah and I, naked I might add.
"I didn't want or need to see that." I said Turing around quickly.
"My bad little sister. I honestly forgot you were here, seeing as you're very irrelevant." He said, making my blood boil. What an asshole! I turn back around once he is fully clothed.
"You've been busy." Elijah said angrily to his younger brother.
"That's an understatement, brother." I said to Elijah, rolling my eyes and sighing in annoyance.
"How long was I a wolf?" Klaus asked us eagerly.
"Almost 2 days. Full moon came and went. You remained a wolf." Elijah said, looking back at me. Klaus gives us his famous smile, with teeth and all.
"I didn't know psychopaths knew how to smile." I said to Klaus, returning the smile, only mine was as fake as Elena Gilbert's personality.
"I can change at will, then. It's good to know. I remember every single kill." Klaus said, ignoring my shrewd comment.
"Yes, We've been cleaning up your little mess along the way." Elijah said annoyed. Personally I'm tired of dragging bodies that have fallen at the hands, well rather the paws, of Klaus.
"Just like old times." Klaus said.
"You've had your fun. I believe we have a bargain." I said, trying to ruin Klaus' cloud nine feeling.
"Youngest sister... always so persistent on what she wants." Klaus said, smirking. "Is that what you did with the Salvatore brother? Bug him until he finally gave in?"
"Just because people don't like you, doesn't mean that I am unlikable. Now the deal Niklaus." I said.
"That's right. Now, what was it again? Oh, yeah. Wait. I remember. That's it. You two wish to be reunited with our family." He asked, waving his pointer finger between Elijah and I, making us even more irritated.
"You gave us your word, Niklaus." Elijah said to our evil older brother.
"What kind of brother would break his bond? Even though you two did try to kill me." Klaus said, making me laugh.
"We could have, but we didn't." I said to him.
"And now no one can, not even you Iris. Relax, you two. All is forgiven." Klaus says.
"Great. Glad to know that me trying to get justice for my family that you killed has gone under the file labeled 'forgiven'. Now I can sleep peacefully at night." I said, mocking my brothers attempts to make me not actually want to rip his kidneys out, and make him eat it. Violent. I know.
"Where are they?" Elijah asked Klaus.
"You need to lighten up. I'll bring you to them soon enough." He started walking away. I groan, and shuffle behind him.
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Klaus lead Eli and I back to Alaric's place, a place that he completely took over. A place where he is keeping Kathrine hostage. Klaus unlocked the door, revealing Kathrine pushing Stefan up against a wall. I couldn't help but feel jealous that Kathrine was that close to Stefan, but then again, Stefan and I were never officially together, and I made a choice. Stefan is a free man.
"Klaus, you're back. Look who decided to come for a visit." Kathrine said. I tired not to look at Stefan, but my guilt and longing for his touch drew me into his leafy green eyes. His stare was never moved, keeping his eyes on me, looking betrayed and hurt.
"You just keep popping up, don't you?" Klaus asked, annoyed that Stefan was still interested in him.
"I need your help...For my brother." Stefan said, his gaze not moving from my own.
"Well, whatever it is, it's gonna have to wait a tick. You see, I have an obligation to my siblings that requires my immediate attention." Klaus said, causing Stefan to move his gaze to Elijah, then back to me.
"Don't be like this, Stefan." I said to him.
"You understand how important family is, or you wouldn't be here. My brother gave us his word that he would reunite us with our own." Elijah said, helping me with my lack of words, and with my lack of courage to look Stefan in the eye after all I've done.
"And so I shall." Klaus said, pulling a stake out, stabbing my favorite brother in the heart.
"ELIJAH!" I yelled, trying to run to my fallen brothers side, face full of tears, when Klaus grabs my arm, bring me rather close to his face.
"Don't touch him, or I will actually end your life." Klaus said, throwing me down onto the ground. I didn't dare to move as he shoved Stefan up against a wall. "Now, what am I gonna do with you?" He asked the youngest Salvatore brother. Klaus pulls out yet another stake, stabbing stefan, placing it just below his heart, moving it around cause Stefan pain.
"Klaus stop." I begged, crying.
"Do you feel that? It's scraping against your heart. The slightest little movement and you're dead." Klaus said.
"NIK STOP!" I shouted at my brother. "All he's doing is helping his brother. You've destroyed our family, and there is no need to destroy his. And personally I'm all you have left. Don't lose me too." I said, knowing that I hit some emotional strings in my brothers black heart.
"The witches said you had a cure. Make me a deal. Just give me the cure, and I'll do whatever you want." Stefan begs.
"Stefan don't day things like that." I said, warning him.
"Trouble is I don't know if you'd be any good to me the way you are now. You are just shy of useless." Klaus said, pulling the stake out of him, making him fall to the floor. Klaus goes to the fridge, pulling out a glass of blood, drinking it. Klaus crouches down to Stefans eye-line, making me glare at my older brother.
"I heard about this one vampire, crazy bloke, always on and off the wagon for decades. When he was off, he was magnificent. 1917, he went into Monterrey and wiped out an entire migrant village...A true ripper. Sound familiar?" Klaus asked, looking directly at Stefan.
"I haven't been that way in a very long time." Stefan said, stuttering under Klaus' gaze. Katherine and I sit in silence, not daring to move. My magic is still drained from that bitch of a spell from two days ago.
"Well, that's the vampire I can make a deal with. That is the kind of talent that I can use when I leave this town." Nik said. "Katerina come here." He said, forcefully grabbing her, biting her wrist, injecting her with werewolf venom.
"Aah! Aah! No. No...No. No. No." She says, watching the toxin spread on her arm. I don't know weather to be relieved or pissed. My emotions are out of wack at the moment. Klaus bites his own wrist, force feeding Katherine his blood, and almost like magic, her wound heals like it was never even there.
"You want your cure? There it is." Klaus says.
"Your blood is the cure." Stefan and I say together in shock. This is very bad.
"Gotta love Mother Nature." Klaus says, mockingly. He walks up to Stefan, placing his hand on his shoulder. "Now we need to talk."
"Stefan do not make any deals with Klaus." I said to him. "You've seen where it's gotten Elijah. Don't." Klaus sighs, turning to me.
"Shut up, Ivanka." He said. "You're at your weakest right now. Don't make your big brother mad."
"I'll still put up a good fight, brother." Klaus laughs as he grabs a knife, slicing his hand. He starts to put his blood in a vial.
"Not without your magic, sister. You're nothing without it. And while it's all drained, you're no match. So stop threatening me before you end up like your siblings." Klaus turns to Stefan. "There it is. You want to save your brother? How 'bout a decade-long bender? And I have big plans for you when we leave this town."
"I'm not like that anymore." Stefan said to my older, and cruel brother.
"Well, that's too bad. You would have made a hell of a wingman." Klaus says, pouring his blood down the drain.
"No! Stop! Wait." Stefan said in a panic, causing the hybrid to look up at the desperate vampire, smirking. "I'll go with you and Iris."
"Now that's more like it. I want you to join me for a drink." Klaus says, throwing Stefan a blood bag. Stefan looks down at the plastic with his weakness. His drug, and boy was he terrified.
"Stefan no. Don't. Please." I begged, standing up.
"Again. Shut up Ivanka." Klaus orders. I look at Stefan, hoping that the desperation in my voice will get him to reason. Stefan looks at me, before ripping open the blood bag, taking a sip while his hands shake. His eyes go blood red, and the veins under his eyes begin to grow. "Finish it. All of it. You do everything I say, and I save your brother. That's the deal." Klaus says. Stefan looks at me again, while messily finishing the bad. Klaus laughs in amusement, while tossing him another bag. And bag after bag, Stefan drinks. I'm horrified by the mess Stefan has become. You never wanna see someone you love in a state like this. It makes you wanna rip out your own heart.
Stefan starts to groan after four blood bags, Klaus tossed him another one. "You're very cooperative. It's almost as if you're enjoying it." He says, mocking the vampire who is indulging in his addictions.
"No more. Not until you give me the cure." Stefan says, standing his ground. His face was covered in blood, along with his shirt and his pants. Nik walls over to Stefan, crouching down to the angry vamp who was sitting in a mess of blood.
"Not until we make a deal. It's your choice, Stefan. You can either remain here living your life in Mystic Falls, or you can embrace what you truly are, leave town with me, and save your brother's life." Klaus says. Stefan glares at my brother before snatching the vile from his hands, signing off on the deal.
"You've just made the worst mistake, Stefan." I whispered.
"Sweetheart..." Klaus mocks, looking at Katherine. "Take this over to Damon."
"You want me to leave?" Katherine asks. Klaus nods as Stefan starts shouting a mush of words. Katherine speeds out of the room, leaving Stefan in a frenzy.
"She's never gonna bring it to him." He whispered. He said it a few times, knowing that he basically just sold his soul to the devil, and that he did it for no reason. I walked up to him, kneeling at his side.
"I wouldn't touch him, sister." Klaus said. I closed my eyes, letting what little magic I have in my body course through my veins. I opened my eyes, knowing that they were glowing purple by the admiration in the Salvatores eyes.
"What are you gonna do about it, Klaus?" I asked him. I turned around.
"Oh just because your eyes glow, doesn't mean you stand a chance." He said, mocking me.
"Shut up." I said, turning back around to Stefan, trying to give him the most comfort I possibly can. I know he's in pain, and I know that his Conscience is at war. "Can I talk to Stefan? For five minutes?" I asked my big brother.
"No." He said. I turned around, looking at him.
"Five minutes is all that I ask brother. I spared your life. I've done everything you've asked. Five minutes." I asked him. He sighed.
"Only because I like Stefan." He said, walking out of the apartment. "Your time starts now." I smiled back at the vampire. He was still in shock, on the floor, panicked.
"You're wearing my jacket." He said to me. I stood up, walking to the sink, grabbing a warm wash rag.
"My jacket now." I smiled, crouching down at his level, wiping to blood off of his face, causing him to smile, then drop it again. "You're mad." I said to him, still cleaning his face of the blood.
"You and Elijah betrayed us. Everything you two stood for." Stefan said, his gaze not leaving my purple eyes.
"I was given a small sliver of hope that I'd see my family again. That I could see Bekah's smile, and I could hear Kol's laugh. That I could hug Finn. I wished for all of it. I hoped for all of it. I trusted Klaus, but I'm going to end up in a box. So much for hope." I said, giving Stefan a sad smile.
"I just risked everything for family. I understand. I can't be mad at you." He said.
"I need you to be. I need you to do everything Klaus asks, and once you're free of him, I need you to turn around, and never look back." I said.
"What are you saying?" He asked me.
"Everywhere I will go, Klaus will follow. You can't love me anymore Stefan."
"You mean more to me then my own life, Iris. I can't just stop loving you."
"You have to try." I said, walking away from him.
"You don't want me to love you?"
"Of course I do. But I love you enough to know that this..." I said pointing between Stefan and I. "Us.. it's only going to get you killed. He won't stop until my happiness is destroyed."
"So you're just going to let Klaus win?" Stefan asked in shock.
"He's already won, Stefan."
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Klaus practically dragged Elijahs body to an abandoned warehouse filled with five caskets. Klaus set Elijah down in an empty one.
"I suppose, brother, you've been reunited with our family." Klaus said, smiling at his ironic 'joke'. Stefan stayed silent, while I stood appalled at the sight. Two thirds of my family, dead in front of me. How morbid. "Put him with the others. We're leaving town tonight." Klaus said to the two compelled men standing next to a closed casket.
"What is it you really want from me?" Stefan asked, anger filling his voice. Klaus watches Elijah get rolled to the line of other caskets.
"All will be explained in time. Once we leave this tragic little town." Klaus says with no emotion in his voice. Stefan sighs, and I can't move. I'm so utterly stunned. What a wonderful family reunion.
"Then are we done here? Can we go?" Stefan asked, more annoyed then angry. Moody.
"Not quite. You see, I have a gift for you." I turned around when Klaus said this. Surprises plus my brother don't equal anything good. Ever. "Come here, sweetheart. Don't be afraid." Klaus says, as a young woman who was compelled walked out of the shadows. She was rather beautiful, and you could see the fear and panic in her eyes as her body stayed calm.
"See, I wanna make sure you honor our deal...that you'll be of use to me." Klaus said, biting the girls neck. "I could have compelled her to behave, but a real ripper enjoys the hunt." Klaus lest the girl go, and she runs, until Stefan appears in front of her, feeding until he kills her.
"Stop with your games, Nik." I said, sighing.
"Now we can go." Klaus said, ignoring me.
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Stefan, Klaus, my dead siblings, and I have been on the run for about a week. Recently we ended up in Tennessee, looking for a man known as Ray Sutton. Klaus completely mauled a woman to get the name. My job was to clean up the Hybrid and the Rippers mess. I was the cleaning lady. Great. Stefan and I were being dragged to a bar in said state. I just love to party with rednecks and country folk. Can't wait.
"Ray? Ray Sutton?" Klaus asked, walking up to a brunette man, wearing a red plaid shirt and a gross baseball cap. Not to mention, Klaus was using his "American Accent."
"Who wants to know?" Ray asked my older brother. I was sitting on the other side of the bar, listening in. Stefan was on the opposite side of me.
"I've been looking everywhere for you. We started in Florida, Pensacola. I met a young chap there who you used to work with before you moved to Memphis, now he directed me to two lovely young women. And they led me here, to you." Klaus said, motioning at me and Stefan. Glad to know I've been remembered.
"I think I'll be going." Ray says, before Klaus stops him, completely dropping his smirk, replacing it with his dickish glare.
"Not so fast mate. You only just got here, now your type are very hard to come by." Klaus said, looking at the wolf. I said it. Wolf. Ray tried to walk away when he bumped into Stefan. I silently sped over the the three, allowing ray to bump into me.
"I wouldn't do that." I said annoyed. All I want to do is go to bed, but no. I'm on a mission with Klaus.
"Vampires." He said, looking at us in shock. I smiled, waving.
"You're swifty swift Ray! Yes! My friend here is a vampire. He compelled everybody in the bar so don't look to them for any help. My sister and I, however are much much different then him. We are two very powerful beings. She's an Original Witch and an Original Vampire, and me? Well I'm a wolf and Original Vampire. How fun!" He said.
"You're what?" Ray asked confused.
"A hybrid Ray, I'm both. You see I want to create more of me. Now you being the first werewolf that I've come across in many a moon, pun intended Ray! I need you to direct me to your pack. So, where can I find them Ray?" I smiled at my brother.
"Lord knows we need more of you in the world." I smiled.
"You can't compel me, it won't work." Ray said. Stefan looked at Klaus, who nodded. Stefan pulled out Wolfsbane.
"Can you bring out some darts?" Stefan asked the bar man, smiling. "Tell you what Ray, We're gonna play a little drinking game, something I like to call truth or wolfsbane." Stefan smiled at the wolf, crushing the herb in his hands, pouring it into water.
"Oh this is gonna be fun Ray!" Klaus said, clapping his hands together. I helped Stefan chain the wolf to a wall. Stefan started throwing wolfsbane covered darts into him. That must be painful.
"Ray, you can end this right now. Just tell me where your pack gathers for the full moon." I said smiling at the wolf, hiding my true emotions. I hate causing this man so much pain. He didn't do anything but live his life. How is this fair?!
"I can't." Ray says in pain.
"I know, I know. You live by code and all that, but see he's not gonna let me stop until you tell me. And I do whatever he says so, that's the way it goes around here." I said to him, making my brother smile.
"Hello Mr. Klaus." A random woman says to my brother. "I have some information for you. You told me to tell you if I saw anything. I saw the guys spotted Damon at the farm house." She said. I looked at Stefan, who was also listening in on the conversation. His face and body language was rather calm, but his eyes filled with panic.
"Well, thank you Claudine. You'll just tell your friends to keep up the good work or they're gonna watch her." Klaus said to her. Stefan turned around walking up to my brother, me following closely in suit.
"My brother still on our trail?" Stefan asked, looking between Nik and I.
"He's getting closer, I'm gonna have to deal with that." Klaus said, rather annoyed.
"Let Iris and I do it." Stefan said.
"Now why should I let you and my sister leave?" Klaus said.
"You know we'd come back." I said to my brother.
"Do I?" He asked us.
"You saved my brothers life. I'm at your service." Stefan said, lowering his head.
"You'll kill them if I don't return. I value their lives more then my freedom." I said.
"Ah, you two sound so tedious and indentured. Aren't you even having the least bit of fun?" Klaus asked, pointing to the injured wolf.
"We are going to make sure my brother isn't on our trail anymore." Stefan said, grabbing my wrist, pulling me out of the bar.
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Stefan compelled Andie Star to stand on top of the ledge, and when he told her to, she'd fall off, killing her. Damon opened up the door, looking for Andie when realizing that Stefan and I were there.
"Stefan?" Damon asked. "Traitor?"
"Hello brother." Stefan said, stepping out of the shadows.
"Your names just keep getting worse Damon." I said to the older Salvatore brother.
"You don't write? You don't call?" Damon asked. I knew Damon was hurting.
"We need you to stop following us. It's causing a lot of problems." Stefan said.
"With who? Klaus?" Damon scoffed. "Are we really suppose to are what that dick bag thinks?"
"What you're supposed to do is let me go." Stefan said. "Let us go."
"Saw your latest artwork in Tennessee. Walking a fine line there my friend. Keep that up and there will be no saving you." Damon said. Stefan smiles at his older brother.
"See the thing is, uh, I don't need any saving. I just want you to let me go." Stefan said.
"Nah. I have a birthday girl at home who's not gonna let that happen." Damon said.
"Iris. I don't think I made myself that clear." Stefan said.
"Don't do it stefan." I said to him, pleading.
"Hey Andie? You still up there?" Stefan asked the news reporter. She just so happens to be a good friend of Damon's.
"Andie?" Damon asked in shock.
"Damon.. I cant move." She said.
"Stay calm. Not cool brother." Damon said, glaring at his younger brother.
"Ah just a little cool." Stefan said.
"Stefan dont." I said to him. "Please don't."
"Why don't you stop me?"
"If I stop you, Klaus will kill my whole family, and you. And everyone I care about." I said to Stefan.
"Hey Andie? You can move now." Stefan said, as she plummeted to her death, and all I could do is watch. "I said let me go." Stefan said violently to his brother before grabbing my wrist, dragging me out of the room. I'm so sorry. I mouthed to Damon.
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"You're back." Klaus said, smiling at Stefan and I.
"Did you doubt us?" Stefan asked, smiling.
"Not for a second. I knew you'd pass the test. You still care for your brother, for your old life." Klaus said to the young vampire.
"I don't care about anything anymore." Stefan said.
"Not even my gorgeous little sister Iris?" Klaus asked, mocking my name.
"Nope." Stefan said, not looking at me.
"Why don't you tell her that." Klaus said.
"I don't love you, Iris." Stefan said to me.
"Stef." I said softly.
"Don't call me that. I don't like your attitude, and I'm still madly in love with Elena, so no... I've never really loved you." Stefan said.
"What about eighteen sixty-four?" I asked him, crossing my arms.
"I truly loved Katherine. You were my little play toy."
"I know you don't mean that." I said to him.
"No sister he does." Klaus said, compelling the truth of how Stefan feels about me out of him. Everything Stefan said was true. I crossed my arms, walking away from the two. I acted like walked completely away, listening in on my brothers conversation.
"Why would you make me say that to her?" A pain filled Stefan asked.
"You put on a good show Stefan. I almost believe you. Let's hope, for your brother's sake, and for my sisters sake, they do. You never stop caring about family, do you? But, every time you feed, the blood makes it easier to let go." Klaus said, laughing at Stefan before walking out of the room.
"I love you Iris." Stefan said softly. "And I really hope you can hear me." I smiled to myself.
"I can." I whispered back, hearing a relieved sigh. "I love you too."
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RomanceIris Mikaelson is hiding something from Stefan Salvatore. She is one of the original vampires, and she is a Witch Vampire hybrid. She is the original witch. She is the original vampire. And she is the only one who can stop her Brother Niklaus.
