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As to why Emma and Mary Margaret ended up to the Enchanted Forest directly, it might be that taking off from the Land Without Magic, which wasn't in the portal room at all, you only had one possible way, which is the land from which the Hat came from in the first place.

As to why Jefferson didn't lose his arm in An Apple As Red As Blood, probably there wasn't enough magic for even a part of him to travel back, but only to move an object as small as an apple from that land back to ours once the connection was open.

As to why he reached a good 30 years into the past… that has yet to be explained.