Phee wrote:The way I could see this playing out is that Neal’s confession freaks Emma out, because she’s reeling that he still has feelings for her like she still has feelings for him, and the potential of trying again is sort of scary, which is why she’s been trying to deny it to herself up until now.
I don’t think that this scene will end with a big, happy, loved up reunion. I think that this may well be the last time Emma (or anyone else) sees him before he disappears to wherever MAPvillie ends up being. So if they argue here, and then he disappears, that’s angst for Emma over the last words she said to someone she cared about having been said in anger, and also regret if she doesn’t confess her true feelings back to him when she has the chance.
Losing Neal all over again will drive her to find someone to grab onto to steady and distract herself, someone she can express all her pent up emotions with, and that person will be Hook. Then once CaptainSwan get into the swing of things, Neal will show up again and Emma will get thrown for yet another emo loop, because there’s still so much unresolved between SwanFire, and they won’t be able to ignore it.
Then there’ll be a Shipping War to rival the Ogres Wars.
Agree 100%. While I do think Swanfire is end game I also think they cannot ignore CaptainSwan. Emma and Neal both need to confess their feelings but Emma still needs to learn to trust and to open back up and I think she and Hook would be perfectly matched in this regard. She could learn to move beyond the anger of abandonment and he can move beyond Milah. But then they realize that their only purpose in being together was to heal, it wasn’t forever. And then CaptainEvil and SwanFire!