Ranisha, that song IS perfect. The writers definitely are not making it obvious or easy, but I think they continue to show us in very subtle ways that Emma and Neal are just connected with love. Neal never did anything to hurt her out of spite or for the purpose of hurting her. He also did not do something selfish to benefit himself not caring what the effect might be on her. Even Tamara he dated only after a realization that Emma probably would never forgive or even want to see him. It was not just his self-doubts, but that from his own pain he thought he never wanted to see his father and she would never want to see him. As that song says,”it’s all misunderstood”.
I said pages back that I did not see SF really reuniting until Manhattan anniversary and I think it may be so, that we had Beanstalk 2.0 and perhaps we will get Manhattan 2.0 as well, at least as far as the bar scene–perhaps even a shocking return of Rumple ? Parallel of Rumple finding Neal? I do not know.
My headcannon is Neal saw the bug and that is why he felt a surge of hope saying goodbye. Emma might not yet be ready to remember why, but they will find their way home to each other when they get a second chance.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass