@Josephine wrote:
I think she took Belle on her journey back to her father’s, not immediately after, but along the way. I imagine she was on her journey home when she stopped at the pub in “Dreamy”. I think she was snatched afterward. We already imagine she would be leary of Regina if she met her again, so she was probably tricked somehow. I don’t believe she ever even made it back to her father. Or maybe she did make it back to her father and Regina made a deal with him. Somehow I feel that she was nabbed in EF, not in Storybrooke.
The one thing I’ve noticed is the curse didn’t alter family connections. In SB, Red and Granny are still related, Hansel and Gretel are still siblings and their father is the same person, Sean/Thomas still has the same father. Maybe that’s anothet reason Regina had Jefferson locked in the manor, Paige/Grace would know he’s her father. That would mean she’s living with a foster family in SB. Perhaps Paige was told that her father died or left. If that is the case, then the curse wouldn’t have affected the family ties between Belle and her father. If Gold doesn’t know about Belle, then he was beating Moe French in response to what Regina told him in FTL. If Gold does know about Belle, then he was beating Moe French because he believes he should have protected her in SB.