Charlie's loss again was felt hard by another resident of the hotel, one who entered the kitchen with a noticeable, and uncharacteristic, slump to his posture. After Charlie had been retrieved the first time by Hiro and Peter, Nathan had been certain the end to these PTB shenanigans had been discovered. They would stop taking back people who were important or those here would use their abilities to counter those acts until the PTB grew tired of having their will consistently changed.
His certainty had been wrong. They could keep pushing the PTB, but as much as Nathan might encourage such action, he couldn't encourage Peter or Hiro running themselves into the ground going back after everyone over and over again. Like with Bennet, Charlie wasn't going back to live life elsewhere, she was going back to die. That meant dealing with a loss that couldn't be undone. The last time Charlie had vanished, Nathan had internalized it, falling into an emotional slump that only Charlie coming back had pulled him back from, not depression, but a withdrawal from others to avoid that sense of loss.
But he couldn't afford to let that reaction happen again, no matter how much he wanted to do so. However, there was someone in the building that couldn't afford to be lost even more than Nathan, and it was the man at the kitchen counter.
"Hiro," he said quietly, then slid a stool over to sit on, joining the other man.
[ooc: I swore I posted this earlier, sorry! *facepalm*