Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26830263-20170710210232/@comment-26411416-20170718180223

My theory is that Emma DID die back in Storybrooke, and this is what caused Henry's loss of belief - that despite Fiona's defeat, the fate of the Saviour still caught up with her.

I also think that his job in Seattle is as an actual author, and that the modern fairy tale book which Lucy has was written or complied by him, as a way of dismissing all that had happened before as a fiction or delusion.