I’m not sure Rumple’s point in giving SW the bow and arrow was ever to kill the queen. Like we have seen before, he carefully answers SW question in a way that she wants but perhaps has a deeper meaning. Rumple carefully chooses the words “The arrow never misses it’s target” but who is it to say that Charming wasn’t the target all along. Perhaps in order for the two hairs to combine into the love potion, they had to be in love in that moment. It was clearly paralleled that as SW and Charming kissed again, Rumple bottled their hairs together.
On another note, i think it was the bottling of these two hairs together and the actual potion made from their love that keeps MM and David together in SB. They have a draw to each other like no one else has with their FTL counterpart. Sure other couples have stayed together, but theirs is so much deeper and richer than others. Just a thought.
Also, didn’t rumple comment that once he has bottled love he would have mastered all powers or all elements or something along those lines?
Do you think the bottles were transported somewhere into SB, like the other FTL artifacts? I don’t think it would be unheard of.