Love the manips, Lauren! 🙂
I think she is starting to realize that he went through so much more than he ever let on, and that he is so much more heroic and good than she ever thought. He never tried to use his past as an excuse or to justify what he did. He doesn’t try to take credit for things, let alone things he didn’t really do. He apologizes for his mistakes. All the good things she ever saw in him are still there, but she now has reasons to second guess the bad things she imagined he must be like to have left her the way he did. Right now, all she can handle really is making sure they get Henry back, but she is seeing him in a new light, and she cannot stop looking!
YES!! And the fact that little moments like this are even in the show causes me to keep the faith that they’re sticking to the story they always wanted to tell, because Emma couldn’t be seeing him in this new light if she hadn’t seen him in the old light, both are necessary parts of the over all story they’re telling for these two. And if she loved the original version of him that she knew, and now she’s realising all these new things about him, how can that not have the affect of building on the love she previously had for him.