Leonard's gotten used to the explosive way Mick's anger works over the years. If he hadn't known all the other sides of him first, before he ever actually saw it, Leonard would have stayed away from him. But he knew the rest of Mick first-- fierce and protective and loyal, so it was something he came to accept. And Leonard doesn't react outwardly anymore when he slams things around in the midst of the anger that burns through him like kerosene hit with a match.

"I told you, I don't know!" The vehemence with which he's clinging to those words like they're proven fact is pretty telling that there must be something, if only because people are wildly more defensive about things they're caught lying about.

Leonard really isn't sure what has gotten into him tonight, but he's apparently feeling pretty confrontational because as he continues, he marches over to where Mick is standing to look him in the eye as he says what he has to say. He'll be damned if this whole conversation is had with Mick's back. "If there is anything that I've ever been sure of in my life, it's that you would never do anything to hurt me. Ever." There's a beat and there's a little more desperate note in his next words. "You have to believe that I know that."