@Elle wrote:
Emma was able to see past Captain Hook’s bravado as a cover for his pain in losing Milha.
Captain Hook never threatend her family, though. And just because she has shown sympathy for him, does not mean that she trusts him or even likes him. The way she treated him during the interrogation shows that. Or the way she chained him up and later fought him for the compass show that.
And Emma and Rumpelstiltskin have never been close–she has never been a fan of his and has done her best to stay away from him as much as possible.
Also, this is Emma’s family–the family that she has been looking for, the family that she has always wanted. She finally has them in her life and someone comes up to them and threatens to kill them all. Even if he was just broken, Emma will not take kindly to that, nor should she. I see her being more protective oof henry during the trip.
And she and Neal are not going to be all lovely and reunited that quickly (at least I hope not). She is still going to feel betrayed, and even more manipulated that the father of her child is the son of Rumpelstiltskin.
You make excellent points, but I think they will bond on their road trip together. They won’t become buddy-buddy, but my feeling from spoilers and photos is that when Nealfire runs away, before she finds out that it's him, she feels sorry for Rumple that his son is actually running away from him and that helps soften her feelings toward him along with seeing him being very vulnerable due to never being in the real world before and not being able to do magic to make himself feel powerful.
As for the threat, while i do think it was very wrong of him to make it, I think it was mostly just there, so Rumple would have another thing to loath himself for if Neal is Baelfire, and Emma and/or her parents fill him in on everything his dad has done that he doesn't know about, and on top of the Curse, bringing Henry to Regina, almost beating Maurice to death, etc., they tell him “we thought Belle was helping him become a better man, but then he threatens to kill us all even Henry”. That's just going to make Nealfire even angrier with his father, and also feel like that there's no good left him in at all if he can threaten a child when he was supposed to becoming a better man.
Then, I expect every time that there is some kind of forward movement with their relationship, Nealfire will start learning things about his father that the Charmings don't know like how he murdered Milha or his part in helping turn Regina to the Dark Side (not that it excuses her actions), but I'm sure those things will be set up as stumbling blocks along the way to them reconciling if they ever do.