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As much as I want Bae to be Henry’s father, I still have this nagging feeling that Jefferson is Bae. There seem to be so many things to point to him being Bae. For one Jefferson is a “realm jumper” for lack of a better term – something that would be realistic for Bae to learn to do if he wanted to find a way to get back to his father or find a way to bring his father to him. I know that Bae did not like magic, but he WAS willing to use magic to get his father away from magic. Using that logic it would make sense that he would be willing to use magic to find a way to get back to his father or find a way to bring his father to him.
Although we haven’t seen the backstory yet we know that SOMETHING went on with either Cora and Rumple or Regina and Rumple that resulted in Regina and Rumple at one time being very familiar with one another but ending in being enemies. We also know that SOMETHING went on with Regin and Jefferson that resulted in them at one time being very familiar with one another but ending in also being enemies. Regina and Jefferson use magic together via Jefferson’s hat to realm jump. They also talk ALL THE TIME about abandoning or being abandoned by family. In fact, Regina likes to tease and insult Jefferson about this. Jefferson has mentioned that he gave up magic because he lost his wife because of magic. It would be very like Regina to tease Jefferson if he was also Bae and had lost his father because Rumple didn’t go into the vortex with him. If Jefferson was willing to use magic to find his father even though he didn’t like magic – he would feel very guilty if magic caused him to “lose” his wife (similar wording that Rumple used to describe how he “lost” Bae) and it would be enough to make him give up magic and give up trying to find Rumple. It would also give Regina even more reason to tease and make fun of Jefferson (oh look, you’re just as pathetic as your father). Now, in SB Jefferson has been separated from his child – just like Rumple was separated from his child, all because of magic. If Jefferson is Bae he would know how painful it is to be aware of being ripped from your family because of magic – so he would prefer to have Grace live happily with a fake family than be aware of reality. If Regina has truely been controlling Jefferson he may know that his father has been only a few feet away from him for the past 28 years but he hasn’t been able to do anything about it – another reason he wouldn’t want Grace to know about who they really are – he knows how painful that would be. It would also make sense for Jefferson to free Belle for his father, also knowing that his father would get revenge on Regina for all three of them.