Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-23906605-20131017110136/@comment-4839682-20131028043757

XxBadWolfxX wrote: Yet when one chooses different, fate seems to catch up with them anyway. (In the show) Does it, or is that just what they were "fated" to do?

The Seer's prophecy, that Rumple's child would be fatherless... it would have come true either way. (Self-fulling prophecy, but that's a different story)