[ what elena wants is... she's said what she wanted. (i want us.) she doesn't want to have to choose. she's quiet at caroline's question, maybe because the answer is obvious and it was rhetorical anyway.
they did get in a huge fight. one fight that spanned over more time than most of their fights, or maybe it just seemed that way. it's only now things have been easier, better; they worked it out. for now. she cares about that. and that's why it means and she feels as much over caroline saying all that.
she sucks in a breath at 'fight for it' and she exhales it as a laugh. ] Or both. [ maybe she should fight for it. maybe she wants to. maybe she just doesn't know how. she sobers. ] I can't make him believe me, or... accept it. [ she did that with stefan once, trying to save him. she understands now, how it would never have worked. ]