It's not in her nature to sidestep. She's never bothered messing around with that kind of thing before, and she doesn't know why exactly she's started to let it happen now. Maybe it's because she likes him and she hasn't wanted to like anyone since Finn. It had felt like a betrayal before, but it's been over a year since she watched him die and she needs to move on. She wants to move on, and Elias has the kind of face (and arms, and chest, and everything) that is all the more encouraging.

When he's not pushing her away.

He's been through hell this month, she knows that, but she's decided that enough is enough. She wants to be able to help him and she can't do that if he's going to keep shoving her to arm's length. His friend has been buried and Raven is hoping that maybe some of the pain might have been buried with him, but she's not convinced that's going to be the case. She hasn't heard from him in the week or so since the body arrived, but she hadn't expected to. He needed time, she knows she would too, but she thinks she's given him that. Now, she wants the cards laid out on the table, and she wants to know what's going on.

Raven can't imagine he'd be anywhere else but his apartment, so she knocks on the door, half expecting him not to answer.