[Two Barnes'. Given the givens, that makes even odds that one of them is the one, who. Well.
There's a good long pause before Tony responds. There's too much wrapped up in that question for even Tony to parse through, lingering shame and regret mixing with a still-simmering anger. And none of it is anything he wants to get into over a text conversation with a virtual stranger.
Even if it is himself. Apparently.]
We had a difference of opinion.
[And then because there's a sharp offense to those texts he's pretty sure he recognizes, he adds another moment later.]
no subject
There's a good long pause before Tony responds. There's too much wrapped up in that question for even Tony to parse through, lingering shame and regret mixing with a still-simmering anger. And none of it is anything he wants to get into over a text conversation with a virtual stranger.
Even if it is himself. Apparently.]
We had a difference of opinion.
[And then because there's a sharp offense to those texts he's pretty sure he recognizes, he adds another moment later.]
I don't intend to continue it.