Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140523071906/@comment-6175354-20140525114519

Edt997 wrote:

the point is it does not matter what time there in, it doesn't matter how long they knew eachother robin and regina started their relationship at the begining of the second half of the season. and the time should be around a couple of weeks if that in the show. hook and emma kissed twice when one was cursed and nothing happened i just don't see anything that points to them being true lovers. Regina and Emma are two very different people. Regina is passionate.... so passionate, that she does not need her heart to feel emotions. Emma is the exact opposite. She is emotionally closed off, with walls as high as the Empire State Building around her heart.

When Emma kissed Hook after she drowned, his cursed did not "break", because she still wanted to go back to New York. She did not want to be the savior. She wanted to run away, and leave everyone she cared for behind. Most importantly, she refused to admit that she might have had deep feelings for Hook. To her, he was just that guy who pushed her buttons, and told her the cold hard truth. Emma did not fall in love with Hook, until the Season 3 finale. When he taught her how to waltz, when they watch her parents fall in love, and finally when she learned he traded the Jolly Roger for her.... all of those, were when Emma Swan fell in love with Captain Hook.

Also, Emma's magic technically never left. So, in a way she was just faking it. She thought they were gone, and that made it easier for her to continue making excuses.