Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-184.155.191.147-20130220024229/@comment-6195464-20130220171214

I don't think that was the implication at all - I think he just didn't want anything to do with the old world he was from. If he'd known Emma was from there, he wouldn't have gotten involved with her-  but he didn't, and they were involved and because of that, he did/does love her. He's very clearly angry with August at the end of Tallahassee, when he hands over the key chain and money - which tells me giving up Emma wasn't a choice he made,easilly.

And honestly, is it so wrong of him to be afraid of his father? Think of all he witnessed... all he went through. It's not like Rumple just wouldn't let him have cake at his birthday party... he murdered people, right in from of Bae. He's one scary dude...