If it is something MAJOR they have planned for the two of them then sometime in season 4 seems reasonable. As long as we have CS working together on some kind of adventures and being shippy while doing it, I’m happy – cause I think that’s when both of them seem to be happiest, when they are working together (like Snowing). BUT I will not be happy if they stretch out this triangle-not-really-a-triangle that long! Give Emma some time to decide she really does NOT want Neal, have the heart to heart she needs to have with him so they close off that storyline for good, FINALLY give us the Hook/Bae NL backstory that is missing and the Hook/Neal reconciliation that needs to happen which includes both Hook and Neal dealing with Milah being Neal’s mom and Hook turning Bae over to Hook, have Henry get to know Hook and come to like and respect him OUTSIDE of a relationship with Emma, have Snowing learn the backstory on SF (we need to learn everything that really happened about Emma going to jail – so does Emma), have Snow accept Emma doesn’t love Neal but loves Hook. Once those things have happened Emma is in a good place to really BE with Hook. But until that time we can have the “moments” that Daddy Charmjng talked about.
So if you think about, with everything that needs to be accomplished for Emma and Hook to be at the place where they can have a MAJOR, everything we needed to accomplish to be together has been accomplished type of episode, it would likely be sometime in season 4 given that every single episode can’t focus 100% on them. But getting official CS “moments” until then (like I think/hope) we will will still be really good. Just like the KISS was super amazing even though they people were saying we were only imaging thing things at that point!!