If I'd left you to "reap the consequences" you'd be dead. […"again", his brain helpfully supplies. And maybe that's why he's still trying. He doesn't know the events leading to Leon's death and he doesn't really understand it, but what a terrible life to lead. So he scrubs at his face again, sighing in frustration before he speaks around his hand.]

Look. Can we maybe stop throwing around the word burden? Nobody's a burden to anybody. I'm sorry for meddling back then but it kinda goes against everything I believe in just to let somebody walk straight into their own death. [And under his breath:] I've seen it more than enough.