Despite the recent spoiler, I still think Baelfire could be Peter Pan, which would make it easy for him to fly to our world. Even if Baelfire isn’t Peter, he at least had Peter’s help and a bit of pixie dust to fly to Earth, perhaps because he had tired of being a teenager and wanted to grow up. On the subject of Bae’s connection with Captain Hook, I think it is a love-hate relationship. As Milha’s son, Bae is Hook’s last remaining connection to Milha and so he’d want to protect him. On the other hand, he is Rumple’s weakness and so if Bae refused to help Hook in taking down Rumplestiltskin, then it’s possible Bae fled to our world to escape Hook’s plans of revenge.
Wow. I completely forgot about pixie dust. I’m over here trying to figure out if magic beans could be in NL.
And I agree with your assessment of the Hook/Nealfire dynamic. The way Hook spoke about the Lost Boys, he’s obviously fond of them and I can see him trying to take care of Bae and the others. But, he is a pirate and he does do villainous things, so I can also see him trying to use Bae against Rumple, like he was willing to do with Belle. But did he not know that Bae (whatever name he was going by be it Peter or something else) was Rumple’s son for a long time? Bae was in NL for at least 250 yrs before he left. Did it really take Hook that long to piece it together? Or did they always know who the other one was and then something else happened to drive them apart? Bae knew that his mother had run off with a pirate and he was under the assumption that she was dead, but did Hook tell him what really happened? Neal hasn’t brought it up with Rumple thus far. And what was Bae doing before he met Hook? We know there is a small gap of time in between Bae going to NL and Hook returning there after Milah died.