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Cora and Hook came through with his ship made of enchanted wood, it could be different than  traveling though...bean. Also,Rumple said in a previous episode that Bae traveled through "time and space". Maybe Bae showed up in the future Land Without Magic, where the curse is already 10 or 15 years in effect.

The Emma and Neal relationship was only going on for a few months, not years. She met him at 18, they dated and had big plans to live together very quickly. But before August made Neal abandon her, Neal and Emma more than likely concieved Henry; so 2 months later, she finds out she's pregant.

But, if the theory of Bae being Peter Pan holds true, the bean took him to Neverland instead of TLWM. The Blue Fairy specified that she didn't know where this particular bean was going to take the user(s).

In Neverland, no one ages so the age thing could be summed up in a nutshell. And in the Peter Pan stories, Peter can travel to and from Neverland and TLWM either I guess by stowing away on Hook's ship or maybe Tinkerbell's dust? And it's assumed that eventually he grew tired of staying young for like 300+ years and moved to TLWM indefinitely. That would explain Neal's mischieviousness and his way of getting by, by stealing and sneaking around like Peter Pan.

Years later, he meets Emma and the rest is history.