[Nate takes a few steps rushing forward, still leaving plenty of distance between them, but clearly he has a lot of feelings about this.]

That wasn't for you to decide. You left me to do all the explaining. Anyone that asked what happened, why you did it. And you know what I could tell them? Fuck all. Because what could I say?

[He wasn't going to tell them about what they had done before everything went to shit, about what had started the fight. He wasn't going to betray Matt's trust, even after being beaten within an inch of his life.]