His first instinct is to protest, deny it, because it wasn't quite what he was expecting Jason to say. Tim didn't know Jason particularly wanted him to talk to him, but he should have known the absence wouldn't go unnoticed. Not in a place where Jason has tea parties and friends and counts Tim among them. "I don't talk to most people," he says instead, true but not really applicable here. "Just ask anyone who knows me, it's not exactly a new complaint."