Since everyone is discussing about this, why not joining the discussion?
I can relate somehow to Matt and Will. Even if my situation is probably not as complex, at least as I see it.
I can understand what Matt can feel. He's related to that family only by Robbie, who died. Which happened to be also is father, and which is also one of the few reason [excluding having sex with Stef ] why he got into CAP family.
Differently I can also understand Will. He doesn't have blood relation with many people, but he grow up with his brothers and that include Matt, but we must consider that they know each other from 4 years only.
I'm not justifying any of them, but I think all noted that at the beginning of Bloodlines, Matt took under his wing JJ, and in another way Darius. Will showed from the beginning not that much interested in Matt.
The problem is:
Will has a strong sense of family, but he's independent. He would do anything for someone else of CAP family, but he also wants the same from the others.
He doesn't consider the Hayes in Claremont as part of his family because he never saw them like that. They were the last arrived. It's like the aunt and uncle and their sons, which you see only in Claremont for the 4th of July. Not much time to create a deep bond.
We know Matt have also a sense of family, but it is different. He's closer as familiar to the Hayes but we didn't see him do much about it. Differently and strangely, as I saw it when I read it, he bought that cellphone to his half-brother, the one he has from his biological mother (Laura if I remember right?). (And by the way Mr. Arbour. Where does that kid end?).
As I see the problem, Will asked something really important to him to his whole family. He asked to all of them for support and for having his back.
Matt does consider him as a brother, but didn't get how, for Will, that request was important. He saw it as a challenge? I don't know. He saw it as a way to cope with his loses? Maybe. The only thing I know is that he got burn. (Still I thought Tony got him drunk, but that was proven wrong).
Probably, in a not so near future, we will (hopefully) see Matt getting back on track and plead Will to start over. At least trying to do what Robbie would have wanted them to do. (If he will play this card and being honest I don't see Will doing anything else than say he's forgiven.)
That's all. Sorry for my sh+++y English.
PS. Will we ever see Stef as a narrator again? I'm missing him a lot!