video; private and filtered to the ot3
[ it's not that elena doesn't understand about needing to be trusted. about needing your choices respected. about knowing what you're doing, and having your own reasons. (it's not what she's arguing, if she were arguing at all.)
she presses her lips together, looks at him with as much understanding, shared pain - and knowing. because what says he says next - it's confirmation. confirmation of what she felt yesterday, confirmation there's plenty he's not saying. (she doesn't want him to have to feel this way.)
asking her not to push it; it's not something matt would insist, knowing her, knowing how she feels about honesty and knowing what she'll do to find answers - unless it was something important. and she wishes that doesn't make it all the more important to her. ] Matt, I'm - I'm not going to push you. [ she means it. she wouldn't do that. (she also doesn't know if she can let it go completely.) ]