[hiro lifts a hand to hook at the back of his head, keeping that eye contact belth started.]

Hey. I'm not leaving you or anybody else. I'm not even considering wanting to go home without a way to get to the people I've met here. I don't want to lose you, I don't want to lose Ino, and I haven't figured out a way to get Tadashi somewhere safe. I have too much here to just disappear.

[it's not up to him, he knows it's not, and it's still hard to swallow. but he's going to make this promise, and he's going to keep it.]