Emma and Henry’s father

[theladybelle]

So, what do you think went on between them? Was he just an idiot who left her, or was there more that Emma does not want to reveal? I think there must have been, otherwise Emma wouldn’t have this grudge against him.
I keep thinking of what Emma told Henry, that his father was a hero. Maybe she based that story on what she herself thought of the guy when she first met him and not just the fact that he was a firefighter and therefore could be thought of as a hero who saved people from burning buildings. She might have met this great guy who could make it all right for her and she sort of regarded him as a hero in that sense. But he did something that crushed her hopes for a future between them, something that made her think that he actually wasn’t a hero after all. Emma did say “Henry’s father was no hero and trust me, he doesn’t need to know the real story”. It seems it’s more than just a romance that didn’t last. Emma was hurt real bad and had her dreams crushed because of this guy.

[hjbau]

I think that the guy did something, i am not sure what the situation was, maybe they were somewhere they shouldn’t be, i don’t know, and then the guy ran off and Emma got caught and was charged with whatever crime she did. Probably stealing something. Though you would think her crime would have to be really something to get put in juvy pregnant.

[killianhookfan]

Wow, hjbau – it never occured to me until you just pointed it that it is very likely that whatever landed Emma in jail was probably done with or as a result of her relationship with Henry’s father. That would explain her not wanting to let Henry know much about his dad. I always just assumed that it was because his dad was a loser who was probably married and ditched her when she got pregnant or something but I think your theory is right. She also probably doesn’t want Henry to know all the details of why she ended up in jail – giving Henry more info about his dad would likely let Henry know more info about her colorful past than she would want him to be aware of.

[hjbau]

I don’t know. I have just always thought that. Just because we know Emma and Henry’s father met and hooked up and then Emma got in trouble and then she found out she was pregnant with Henry and the father doesn’t know she had a child so i always thought that there must be some incident that happened involving them both and then she went to jail because of that incident and he didn’t and she never saw him again and he never found out she was pregnant. Also just because if whatever happened between the two of them was big enough for Emma to get thrown in jail that would explain her very real anger at him as well.

And it is possible that there is some sort of misunderstanding about it all like Emma thinks that the father was involved in a crime, but he wasn’t exactly involved or he may have been doing it for some reason or felt like he had no choice or maybe not understood that it was criminal. I don’t know. We just don’t know enough. It is just that the timing has all of that happening around the same time, Emma meeting the father, getting pregnant, and going to jail, so it seemed like there might be a connection there.

[onceuponadiva]

I don’t know.. but I agree– he had to do something drastic. What if it was something pseudo magical that caused him to leave her? I mean.. after all, he ties into this… and I’ll bet he’s associated, or is someone we’ve already met. I can’t let go of the fact that there was a huge focus on his father in the episode where August came to town. I don’t know that I’m sold it’s him, or if I think it’s Bae.. or what, but I just get so stressed over the fact that it was one of the last things discussed before he rolled into town.

[darcyfarrow]

Here’s what Emma tells Henry in “True North”:

“I was pretty young. I had just gotten out of the foster system and the only job I could get was this 24-hour diner off the interstate. Your dad was training to be a fireman. He always got the worst shifts, so he’d come in and order cores and pie and sit at the counter and always complain that we didn’t sell pumpkin pie but he always came back the next day anyway.”

Henry: “Did you get married?”

Emma: “No, nothing like that. We hung out a few times outside of work. And life happened. His got better and mine got worse and I got in some trouble.”

Henry : “When you went to jail.”

Emma: “Yeah. Before I went I found out I was pregnant with you. I tried to contact him and I found out that he died saving a family from a burning apartment building. So when you think about the savior, Henry, he was. Your father was a real hero.”

[darcyfarrow]

Here’s what Emma says to MM: “I didn’t tell him the truth. His father was no hero and trust me, he does not need to know the real story.”

[hjbau]

Yeah and it seems like Emma met the father and they hooked up and then Emma got in trouble and then she found out she was pregnant which had to be within a few weeks to a month after they hooked up. And if she was in jail for nine months. then or maybe she was set a time to go to court so she was out of jail for awhile and then after her court date she was in jail or the set a time for her to turn herself in. It just all happens close together which makes me think it is related, but it may not be.

[surayya]

Im like those above – the way Emma talked about him seems like she’s protecting not only Henry from him but herself too. She also told MM to trust her, dont get involved with a married man, so Im thinking he must have been in a position of power (of some kind) over her & used that to his advantage (very likely he was married) & she ended up taking the fall for it or something, as the guy must have done something REALLY off for Emma, who desperately wanted a family of her own (she said shes been searching for her family since she was a kid), to not only not tell him she was pregnant & cut all ties with him, but also to tell Henry he’s dead & so ensure he wont ever go looking for the guy either.
If he was just a bum, loser or petty thief, all she’d have to do is look him up & find out where he’s at (its not like she doesn’t have the skills to do so) in order to see if he’s changed his spots or not- yet she choose to end ALL association with the guy, that’s not something you usually do on a whim.

[eternalflame]

Emma’s description of Henry’s father is a little confusing. First she describes him as gentle and heroic, but then she describes him as nothing but trouble. I believe it’ll be a mixture of both. I do think that Henry’s father was a bit of troublemaker, but I don’t think to the extent that Emma makes him out to be. Emma was also a bit of a troublemaker and she has already proven herself to have questionable judgement about certain issues, even now in Storybrooke. So, I could easily see Emma making a few things up to make herself look a little more sympathetic. But we’ll just have to wait and see.

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