I love those banter moments too. I noticed Emma didn’t try in NL to banter at all until Neal showed up in NL. He brings out her goofy side, when she tries to break the tension by saying saying why can’t it be rainbow valley. Or in Miller’s daughter, where she says “I can spell spell.” There’s this sort of lightness despite the dangers and angst that makes me enjoy them together.
Oh I love that too. Their banter and sass is what makes them so appealing together because it comes so easily. 🙂
Something else that I just thought of while reading your post is a random thing that happened in Dark Hollows. When they went to Neal’s cave to retrieve the coconut and talk about the plan to capture the shadow, Neal asked them if they’d seen the coconut with the holes in the top when they were there last time. Emma knew what he was looking for and now that I’m remembering that scene again, she sounded actually excited to hear that he was looking for it. She said, “Your star map? I know where that is….I’ll go get it” almost like she couldn’t wait to hear his story behind it. I think she was almost disappointed to find out that it was a shadow catcher instead of the star map she originally thought but her eagerness to find that item for Neal was so adorable and it takes me back to their Bonnie & Clyde act when she was so excited to show him the haul she got from that one convenience store (this was right before he gave her the keychain). I’m now finding myself torn between wanting to see them banter more over family things or see them start to rob stores again because both things are totally adorable, LOL 😆
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