mistletoe continuations

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Derek

[shortsighted]

[from here]

But that's the thing. It's not.

[alphawoof]

Scott, you're doing exactly the thing that this place wants you to do.

[shortsighted]

Actually, this place hasn't told me a whole lot of what it wants me to do. So you know what I do instead? I talk to people. I help other werewolves out. I don't like it because I'm not home and I don't know what's up with Stiles or my mom or any of that. But ...

[alphawoof]

I don't think a place that traps us really has good intentions. Now it's raining mistletoe that forces us to kiss, yeah. It makes it kind of hard to believe there's no ulterior motives.

[shortsighted]

Trapping us is bad, but there are people looking for ways to help their friends get a better life ... and this place can help them.

[alphawoof]

The mistletoe helps with a better life?

[shortsighted]

Uh, I didn't say that ...

[alphawoof]

[looking frustrated]

It doesn't help with anything.

[shortsighted]

Derek, that doesn't have anything to do with the mistletoe. There's good here. And you're just—you're just purposely getting around it.

[alphawoof]

There's a lot of things going on in Beacon Hills, Scott. I don't have time for this. It's hard to see this place as anything else but what it's doing to us right now.

[shortsighted]

Yeah, there is, but we're ... not there. And always looking for a way out isn't the answer.

[alphawoof]

So you're staying we just resign ourselves to staying here? [that is not a question. it's a statement]

[shortsighted]

No, we help people until it's time to go. People do leave.

[alphawoof]

That's idealistic of you.

[shortsighted]

No—no it's not. I know people leave because someone told me. And helping people ... that's not exactly hard to do. We're werewolves. That's something that we're able to handle.

[alphawoof]

Let's just get this over with.

[puts a hand on his shoulder]

[shortsighted]

Is that your way of telling me "no, Scott"? Because ... what, we can't do anything unless it's what you think we should do?

[alphawoof]

There's nothing to do.

[shortsighted]

People were hurt all over the place in October! You could smell it. There are other werewolves here, and don't you think it's strange that they want to be in my pack instead of yours?

[alphawoof]

You're talking about Jackson.

[shortsighted]

Other people trust me. Other werewolves trust me. And it's not even a pack thing.

[alphawoof]

That's not usually how it goes, Scott.

[shortsighted]

Yeah, actually, it is. You're so stuck on trying to make this all about you having a pack, about having power ...

[alphawoof]

No, I mean werewolves don't like each other. We form packs and families, but we fight. You just can't trust someone because they're a werewolf too.

[shortsighted]

No, I'm pretty sure that's just you. That isn't how it has to be. But that explains a lot.