Matt doesn't get it. He doesn't get it, and he doesn't want to. Matt does not want to understand how someone is capable of doing that to someone like Elena, to anyone at all. It's part of what horrified him about Vicki, how she changed, what she became capable of.

He recognized her and he didn't, and Matt doesn't know what hurt more.

The urge to hurt Stefan, however, isn't greater than the need to be there for her. "That doesn't mean he can just do this," he says, knots still working at his throat.

Matt steps forward, this time more hesitantly, but he's reaching for her again.