What if shortly after Rumple turned into the dark one he ran into his father, and in order to show his father how bad it felt to be a boy without a family, Rumple “turned back the clock” like he told both Bae and Smee he could do and banished his father to Neverland Doomed to an eternity of dreaming about a family and companionship. Peter Pan’s first words to Rumple was “hello Laddie”