Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24844464-20140506132033/@comment-24674051-20140509163717

^ Thinking the same thing.

However, they only need to fall into the portal once to go back in time. On their return trip, they arrive right about the time of Snow's curse, which is why they are on the Jolly Roger and get back to LWM. after resolving whatever needs resolving between the 2 Hooks, Emma and Hook just lay low for the few days (maybe couple of weeks), between when Hook finds Emma in NYC and Zelena's TIme Warp takes them back to the past. Timed just right, noone else will realize that they were even gone (or at least not gone for long), except probably Gold, and there may be a dialog between Hook, Gold, and Emma afterwards that clarifies the foreknowledge of events.

I'm beginning to think that this could be a very well crafted time-travel adventure story.