You what I just noticed that kills me? After Emma jumps up into his arms and hugs Killian, once she realizes she is safe – it takes her just a short moment to recognize that the reason Killian is holding onto her for dear life isn’t just because he is relieved that they got to her in time and that she is safe. She realizes that this is the man is who has proved over and over again that he will ALWAYS go to the end of the world or time for her and that he will give up his most prized possessions for her – but she also remembers that this is also the man who has twice before been in the position where he has had to watch the two people he loved most in the world die in his arms. And suddenly she isn’t the one being comforted. When she reaches up and cradles the back of his head and the camera moves Killian’s face – we can see his total surrender to the fact that he was terrified that he was once again going to lose the person he most loves in the world, and his relief that this time the person he is holding that he loves is alive and not dead – and he is completely overcome with emotion. This is such a beautiful scene because up to this point we have seen each of them individually physically “rescue” one another, we have seen them work together on adventures together, we have seen Killian do a lot of building Emma up and comforting her when she needs it but we have never before seen them when they are both literally raw and exposed with emotion and comforting EACH OTHER. Killian always knows what to say and do to help Emma, but in that single moment when it was all about rescuing HER, she remembered what he must have been going through and choose to comfort HIM and let him know that, unlike his past experience with love, she is still right there with him. He asks Emma if she is okay. At that moment Emma wants to make sure Killian is okay too.
You just slayed me dead with this RGF- I totally overlooked this fact in all my fangirling on CS feels overload…. this is why CS is hands down my OTP & perfection.