The joke gets a smile out of Leon, who puts on an exaggerated thoughtful look and says, “I don’t know, doc. It’ll take a lot of self control, but I think I can manage.”

(Despite this, it probably is a good thing they told him specifically not to - he might’ve, if the situation seemed to call for it.)

“Oh, and this isn’t me trying to get out of paying you,” he adds, as the thought occurs to him. “I don’t know how things work here, and I don’t have much right now, but whatever payment this-“ he gestures to his injury “-calls for, I’ll get it to you. I just don’t like sitting still when I could be helping, is all.”