RumplesGirl wrote: Hook and Neal, meanwhile — sharing as they do a quite complicated past of their own – will arrive at some sort of agreement in the Dec. 8 episode. Says Kitsis, “You’ll see how they’re going to deal with each other and with Emma in, I think, a surprising way.”
I’m hopeful that Hook will respect his son-figure, Neal, enough to back down. I’m guessing both Neal and Hook will agree to give Emma the space she needs to work through what she wants for herself.!
I don’t think that Hook should have to back down to show that he cares for Bae or has grown as a person. From Hook’s perspective Neal was engaged less than a week to another woman and he knows that Neal left Emma. To lots of people and especially someone like Hook, that does not look/sound/feel like true love. Hook is serious romantic who would never leave his true love or would become engaged with someone he didn’t love. Even after Neal met Emma again Neal chose to stay with Tamara. I don’t think that Neal can now play the ” Emma is my true love” card and expect to be taken seriously even if he means it now. His actions have spoken for themselves.
hook has spent 300 years grieving for a woman and he’s finally met someone who makes him feel hope and alive, someone who makes him want more out of life. Neal would be supremely selfish to ask/expect Hook to give that all up, especially when Bae had so fully and completely rejected Hook when Hook tried to create a family with him. This does not excuse what Hook did — handing Bae over to Pan. I also want to note that Hook is not breaking up Neal’s family. Neal and Emma are not together, so he is not a home wrecker at least in this scenario (it’s debatable in the Milah Rumple scenario).
At he end of the day, it is Emma’s choice and neither man should choose for her.
Keeper of Hook and Emma's smoldering first kiss, a certain Pirate's sauciness, the Evil Queen's snarkiness, Grumpy's gruffness and a drop of true love to make it all go down smooth.