If their timeline was gone, were the others here? What if they weren't? Claire wasn't certain what she'd do if something had taken away her dad and mom and Lyle and Andy and others she'd cared about along the way, even if it had made a better world out there for everyone else who had suffered and died in their timeline.
But the revelation carried enough weight to distract for the moment. Her? She blinked at him in disbelief.
"He listened to me?" Something she'd said had made a difference in this other timeline. But in theirs... Peter had upheld his end. He'd saved the cheerleader. But she hadn't upheld hers. Had she done so, had she somehow found a way to reason with Nathan, everyone would have been saved for them too.
It was hard not to take the weight of that negatively, barely out of her own timeline and all that had happened there, the things she'd learned to be the truth about it with barely enough time to think it all through after being told.
"I'm sorry." Sorry she'd gone with her dad instead of stayed in the city and helped him find Sylar, sorry she hadn't stayed to make certain whoever it was that would blow up didn't, especially now that it meant she'd only had to be honest with Nathan, not shoot someone, even if she couldn't have pulled the trigger had it been Peter and not Sylar – sorry things had all gone wrong because of something she hadn't done.
Off to the side, Nathan had turned to face them directly, still concealed but dangerously close to revealing himself, first with her disbelief and then with her apology. He'd wanted that information to make her happy, to be something for her to carry with her when facing all the people she would meet from the world that had been changed.