Now that we’ve seen Emma have the realisation that love isn’t weakness, it’s strength, do you think that will colour how she reacts to Neal when she sees him again?
I’d figured she’d be all hostile towards him and try to shut him out, but now I’m wondering if that might not be the case, or at least not to the extent I’d been anticipating. I’d been thinking that Neal would be the one trying to reach out, asking for forgiveness, wanting to reconnect, with Emma refusing to play along. Now I’m wondering if maybe the roles could be a bit reversed, and perhaps his self blame for his role in what happened to Emma is what’s kept him from rushing to SB, and will keep him from being open to her advances when they see each other again, (if he is indeed Bae, his internal dialogue could be that he’s a coward who ran, just like his father, so he’s no better, and when he meets Henry, he could think he’d be no good as a father figure for him, just like his own father was bad for him). Emma knows she’s got an invincible heart now, so really, why would she be the reluctant one in their future relationship?