So one thing I noticed when I re watched the CS scene for 42nd time – after Emma and Hook have had their moment to breathe in each other’s steamy air and stare into each other’s eyes and after Emma freaks out and walks away we get the scene where we see them coming over the hill up to the farmhouse together. Up to this point when Hook and Emma have had any kind of “intense” emotional conversations or talked about either of their feelings they have either been interrupted by other people or it was in Neverland where Emma was able to run away from Hook and go off to deal with something else or talk to someone else.
When they come over the hill, Hook is walking behind Emma. He knows Emma needs time to decompress emotionally after those “moments” and that she needs to call the shots on how they interact after those moments happen. There isn’t anyone else around for her to run to and she can’t run away from him into the jungle the way she could in Neverland. So he gives her the space he knows she still needs by walking behind her so she doesn’t have to face him. But this is the important part – Emma turns around very quickly and briefly to make sure he is still there. I think that is super important.
She wasn’t exactly nice to him when she just talked to him – in fact, she was actually really snotty. I think right before she turned and walked away from him she looked into his eyes and her super power told her that he was telling her the truth about being glad that her broken heart is a sign that it still works NOT that she was hurt at all. I think she saw in his eyes a man who would never wish for her to EVER be hurt and then she had time to realize that she probably hurt HIM by the way she spoke to him and the things she said and suddenly she realized that she probably needed to make sure he actually followed her. But like always as soon as she turned around she probably recognized she really didn’t have to check to see if he was there at all because by now I think she knows that Killian is always going to be there for her – after all, I think she is pretty much convinced that she can always count on him to come back and save her, no matter the circumstances. And I think when we find out what was going on during his secret year she will find out just how bad the circumstances were that he was willing to go through to get back to save her.