It takes her a second to process the question. It isn't easy to sort out the way he jumps at her touch with the softness of his barely beat later. Elektra's brows knit together in confusion. She thought the answer had been obvious when she let him back in. Maybe not now that she comes to think of it. Matthew never knew where she stood on anything either. She always said the opposite of what she really wanted with him.

Elektra can't bear to repeat that mistake again with Frank. "I want you to stay." It comes out a little stilted. It feels like weakness to admit as much when the universe could take him away as it did her father. She breaks eye contact because she doesn't want to think about that and end up following her instinct to run. "Frank... there will come a time when I cannot control what will happen to me. I try to prepare for everything, but there are things even I cannot foresee. When that time comes... wouldn't you want me to come back as soon as possible? Or would you want me to stay away for leaving to begin with?" Because she knows where she stands. Her anger and resentment paled in comparison to that desire to have him back.