@Faux Pax wrote:
I really, really hope that there is more to his absence then just him being afraid. Espenson (or one of the other writers) said that what Neal was doing outside of storybrooke was important or something like that. Maybe the reason he didn’t rush back wasn’t just because he was afraid, but because he couldn’t leave whatever he was doing quite yet.
Yes, I would hope so too. I can understand him being afraid that she wouldn’t want to be with him and/or reluctant to face his father, but given the depth of the love that I believe he has for Emma, I think that would make him at least try to see what happened to her, and if there might be a chance still.
Plus, I agree Jane Espenson made it sound like something outside of Neal was preventing him from getting to Storybrooke already. I just hope it’s not another love interest or him having obligations to some kind of organized crime family or anything along the lines of that. I’m bracing myself for that possibility though.