The *I will win it* quote is one of my favorites of Hook to Emma.
Hands down deliciously positive and yet romantically gallant. No trickery, just pure heart felt need~ after what I am see was a very telling, more-than-a-quick-simple-gratification-flirty-smooch-of-a- kiss for both of them. (and she gave it the added OOOOMMPPPH, if I recall~ wink) It was a softly spoken *heart skips a beat* moment of his confident and sincere devotion to her. He knew it, and my guess is she knew it, too. Stubborn denial is deep in Emma, but not totally hidden from a man with a heart like Hook.
Mine to- I actually actually rank that scene a little higher than their 1st kiss, it’s one of my top 5 fav 3A scenes, because it shows not only how much he has changed, but how much more he wants to change more towards what he used to be, a man of honor- not just for himself, but to be worthy of Emma & her love in His mind. I think maybe that 1st kiss is where Killian got his 1st inkling of an idea of he & Emma being TL…. their kissing must equate to dopamine overload, since their kissing radically changing how he feels, has been mentioned twice by Killian now & their kiss rattled Emma enough, for her to feel the need to talk to Snow (while actually the MM part of Snow lol) about it 😉