Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4821842-20161130061236/@comment-24674051-20161130194543

Actually, depending on how you look at it, Pan had a lot to do with reuniting Bae and Rumple. Pan hid Bae for over a century. Pan allowed him to escape to the LWM at just the right time (because he needed the Heart of the Truest Believer), and it was because of the Trip to Neverland.

I'm not saying that this is the case, but a good argument can be made for it.