_{*.   leftoverfear.}

_{❝      are they   ——-  ?   ❞         she had thought about this a lot,      how things happen in this town constantly,      and for those who aren’t aware of the supernatural,       it’s just a bunch of BLANKS in their minds.      scott always did say it was easier when people knew,      but they knew many people wouldn’t understand    ———      they couldn’t just tell everybody.       it wasn’t that easy.          ❝     i mean,      half the time these people who DON’T know about this other side of life are forced to deal with it anyway,       with less knowledge and less help.       it’s not fair.      i want to PROTECT everyone,     but    ———     sometimes it’s not so easy.      sometimes you can’t protect the secrets and protect people all at the same time.     ❞           what happened in the library with the beast was proof of that     (     those  kids would ALWAYS be left questioning what they saw.    )          she scoffed,     her head immediately shaking.        ❝    i get that.     i hold grudges too,      BIG ones,      but there’s a line,    ❞         she pointed out.        ❝    a big one.      one we’ve crossed in the most   ——    disappointing ways.    ❞        it was true;       she had been disappointed in the way her pack behaved when theo came back,       and she was guilty too for threatening him on a constant while all he was doing was helping.         ❝     like i said,     we ALREADY got our revenge.     something he’s going to deal with for the rest of his life,      and we’re responsible for doing that to him.       something   ——    unfixable,      even if we brought him back.   ❞         there would aways be GUILT hayden had towards what they had done.        ❝    but that’s not even the point.       our pack is about doing what’s right,      not about   ——      being petty or childish or rude or  .   .  .      disrespectful just for the sake proving some kind of point we’ve already long past proven.       when we ask someone to help us,     we’re asking them to be part of our team.     we have no right to treat him like dirt and continue to expect him to help us.       if i was him,      i would’ve been LONG GONE already.      it’s amazing that he helped us.     ❞       scott,   malia,    even liam    ——    and now,     spencer was showing it too    ——-     they had all given theo reason to run far away and refuse to help them when they needed it.       that wasn’t the way hayden wanted to treat people,     even their ENEMIES.      it wasn’t morally correct in her book.       ❝    i just think that if we expect people to help us,     we have to treat them with some kind of respect.       because if we don’t   ——-     then we’re just as bad as he was last year.    we’re the bad guys.      and i went through way too much to make sure i WASN’T with the bad guys.   ❞}

_{❛    you and scott think exactly alike.   ❜      words simply point out    ,  but not delivered as an insult.   in fact    ,  completely the opposite.    it was those traits    ,   to protect   ,  to forgive.   they were TRAITS that she wished that she had herself.   ones that were not taught from childhood    ,    that she had to learn from joining their pack.  now selfishness    ,   vain.    CRUELTY.    those were the traits spencer was more familiar with.   everyone else believed there was good in her     ———-     ,    but it existed because of them.     ❛    you both want to PROTECT EVERYONE.    even at times when it looks like it’s not very fathomable.   you still believe there’s a way.   you’ve come a really long way hayden.    ❜       certainly not the same person who was being brainwashed by theo.   everyone had thought they’d lost her     ———     ,    but tall framed brunette was smart enough to know better.   with BRAINS and gut instincts.   CLEVER GIRL.    uncomfortably    ,    eyes shifted with crossed arms that held her body.    not wanting to look the young beta in the eye knowing some of her statements were true.   despite still standing by stubborn notion    ,    and loyalty to the others for what theo had done to all of them.      ❛    so what are even now?     ❜       she mumbled    ,  even though in a dark and twisted way they kind of were.   he was in hell.   stuck FOREVER    ,   and to a degree hayden’s obvious guilt was understandable.   but it was her forgiving nature to even of the most evil creatures that was  FOREIGN  to spencer.   confusing even.   leaving her completely dumbfounded.   especially when the girl’s thoughts were once controlled by him.    had she been in hayden’s place   ,   results would certainly be more fire.    head nodded slightly    ,   expression looking of one trying to figure all this out.   trying to figure her out.    ❛    yeah    ——–     ,   and i get that.   what we did   ,   it was wrong.   i get you’re harbouring some kind of guilt for what we did but you have to remember what he’s done.   you died hayden.   and you could still be dead.   how can you not hold any resentment to him for that?    i mean   ,   this is the same guy who let his little sister drown.    i just don’t understand how you can see him as anything other than evil.    ❜     little lines formed on pale forehead as brows furrowed    ,    truly trying to understand.   but could only come up short    ,   which was a rare thing for spencer hastings.   but she was trying.}