Maybe Jefferson only leaves his house at night to map the area. I think Regina could easily just not have noticed. She doesn’t seem to have noticed that Ashley gave birth.
@Phee wrote:
Killing her is far too simplistic and not at all satisfying. If he wanted to do that, he’d have offed her years ago back in FTL. What he wants is to destroy her. Strip her of her power, humiliate her, crush her ego. That’s how he’s planning to beat her IMO.
I don’t know. Rumpel doesn’t seem to care enough. I don’t think he has any reason, that we have seen so far, to want to destroy the queen. I think that he is just using her for his purposes, but why would he be worried about destroying her or humiliating her or any of that. And besides the queen was already there in the fairytale land before the curse. She was not a queen anymore. She has lost her power and the people had turned on her. She had already fallen very low so if that was Rumpel’s goal then there would be no reason to do anything because the queen as already there. I think it has to be something else.