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[kfchimera]

While I do think it is a good point, Obisgirl, that Emma can (sometimes) be intuitive and smart*, she doesn’t have any reason to connect those dots as opposed to thinking that Hook broke a deal with Gold, and Milah paid the price.
The way Hook talked about what happened with Milah, there’s no hint that Gold killed Milah for anything but to hurt Hook, not Milah, the same reason Hook is going after Belle.

Plus there’s Neal’s age, being relatively around the same as Hooks to Emma’s eyes. While big age gaps happen (especially on this show, due to frozen, looping time!) I’m not sure Emma would immediately think of Hook going for a lady old enough to be his mother biologically. Turns out, Milah probably was older than Hook (hard to say how much, timelines and ages…save us!) but Emma is still wrapping her head around these people living for 100’s of years, or at least, having been born 100’s of years ago.

*About Emma’s smarts, I think all the characters suffer from occasional bouts of diminished intellectual capacity for plot necessity or humor, particularly David “but I’m his Grandpa” Charming.

[Slurpeez]

While I think Emma is certainly smart enough to connect the dots about who Milha is in connection to Hook, I think that another conversation might be necessitated for her to realize the full connection between  Milha, Rumple and Neal. Once she gets that, she may realize just how much bad blood exists between Hook and Neal. I think that conversation is an important one to have if there is ever going to be any sort of future between Emma and Hook. It’s one thing for Hook to have been in love once before, but it’s entirely another thing if Hook broke up Neal’s parents and then didn’t defend teenage Baelfire when Hook probably should have. However, I’m not so sure Emma is overly concerned right now about Hook’s past, and I don’t think Hook would hide it from her, since he’s not trying overtly to win her heart at this stage. So, maybe it’ll just come up naturally. When they have a quiet moment, Emma might ask Hook, “so how did you and Baelfire know each other?” And then Hook will proceed to tell his story, plain and simple. And if they’re meant to be, Emma will be able not to let it bother her too much, and if not, they’ll just continue on as allies.

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

[RumplesGirl]

I think KFC makes a really great point. Emma is very smart and can reason things out but this whole “fairy tale world/living for hundreds of years” thing is still *really* new to her. It has only been a few months since she broke the Curse and even started to believe in magic. She’s still coming to grips with Snow and Charming being her parents and Neal being Rumple’s son (and a few hundred years old). So she might not have connected the dots quite yet just because it isn’t something people normally think about.

With that said, I don’t think Emma will be overly freaked out by it. At least not in the long run. She might raise her eyebrows a bit, but she’s coming to grips with everything I listed above and with her own powers so her mind is slowly becoming more “fairy tale” as it were.

 

 

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