Luis catches the way Leon taps his chest immediately, and it feels like a weight lifted off of his own. In his studying of Leon, he had caught the various clues - the lack of blackened veins and bloodshot eyes being a major one - enough to hope that Leon had made it to his lab. But it felt like putting too much importance on himself to ask that way point-blank.

He smiles fondly, swallows to hide the way his throat goes tight when Leon mentions that Ashley asked about him.

"I'm sorry to have disappointed her," he says, around all the other things he could say. "...But I'm glad. That both of you are alright."