Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-23871096-20131029050202

TNOandXadric wrote: I think the primary difference is you think that's a good thing and I... really don't. You got to also figure too. Maybe Regina was meant to raise Henry.

As part of the whole Henry destiny thing. If Neal did make the choice to stay and just brought Emma to Storybrook there would be no Henry, raised by Regina, to possess a book,  to help Emma realize who she was. A savior. Its a puzzle. It all fits together.

Neal taking any other route would most likely not have had Emma/Henry fulfill their role.

It's like what I learned in Back to the Future 2. One silly sport history magazine changed

an entire towns future.