Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1894786-20150127205050/@comment-1916997-20150128201219

I agree with Edward, this is probably refering to him ending his "portal jumping days" after the loss of his wife (Grace's mom). The key word is "lock up", he locked up the hat and didn't use it again, until Regina manipulated him, as seen in Hat Trick. Besides after Hat Trick, he no longer had the hat, Regina did. At any rate, I'm really excited to see this story.

Anyway, the Hook story also sounds interesting, since we've only seen pre-Hook Killian once (in Good Form). Not sure about the Rumbelle and Regina stories, I feel we've already seen too much of Belle being Rumple's prisioner, and an awful lot of Evil Queen Regina as well, so I'm not sure what new things we could see in these stories, but I will wait til I can read them before passing final judgement.