( it's a lot to wrap his head around. Stick and Elektra feel like completely separate parts of his past, the idea they knew each other — and worse yet, she'd been working for his sick ideas revolving around a holy war and murdering children — is a little galling. how else would she know, if it weren't some shade of the truth? even if she'd only found out about Stick through stalking him, why would she ever lie that the two were connected? if she wanted to manipulate him into caring again, putting herself in the same step as his demented mentor was a pretty poor way to do it.
as much as Matt still brokenly cared for him, he'd cut the old man out of his life for a reason. it doesn't curry Elektra any favor to claim a connection to Stick.
the idea the old man would kill her for testing him seems both extreme, and not, knowing Stick as he does. Matt has seen full evidence that Stick would kill to serve his own ends, but someone close to him? Matt told Stick no all the damn time and it'd never killed him. ) Why? What changed? ( why would she turn away when she'd been wiling to break him (not physically, but emotional turns out about the same) at the behest of the old man so many years ago?
he turns toward her slightly, enough she can see the dim line of his profile in the shadows. Matt considers himself lucky that Elektra can't hear his heartbeat as easily as he hears hers. it clamors at the mention of her death, because despite everything Matt never wanted her gone and he certainly never wanted her dead. it's a question he's wanted to ask since he found her, and simultaneously avoided because he doesn't want to know the details. now he can't help himself. ) Is that how you died? Stick?
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as much as Matt still brokenly cared for him, he'd cut the old man out of his life for a reason. it doesn't curry Elektra any favor to claim a connection to Stick.
the idea the old man would kill her for testing him seems both extreme, and not, knowing Stick as he does. Matt has seen full evidence that Stick would kill to serve his own ends, but someone close to him? Matt told Stick no all the damn time and it'd never killed him. ) Why? What changed? ( why would she turn away when she'd been wiling to break him (not physically, but emotional turns out about the same) at the behest of the old man so many years ago?
he turns toward her slightly, enough she can see the dim line of his profile in the shadows. Matt considers himself lucky that Elektra can't hear his heartbeat as easily as he hears hers. it clamors at the mention of her death, because despite everything Matt never wanted her gone and he certainly never wanted her dead. it's a question he's wanted to ask since he found her, and simultaneously avoided because he doesn't want to know the details. now he can't help himself. ) Is that how you died? Stick?