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A fair point is raised here. I had attributed the hug to Killian looking at Neal and seeing the same wave of emotions a young Baelfire had been battling when they first met. In Neal's eyes his father had just died (with him not remembering the past year), and he is told the man is still alive.

I'd forgotten that Hook seems to have his memories.

And I wouldn't put it past him to have some sort of clairvoyant ability himself.

The way the EF flashbacks are chopped up makes placing those events in a clear time table hard, we don't know how close to their return to Storybrooke Rumple was resurrected.