Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10745887-20141118000945/@comment-24674051-20141205153023

Just speculation here, but I can think of 2 reasons why Snow might have brought Whale, and 1 where it was not a choice of Snow.

1. From the 1st curse, she spent the one night stand, plus a lot of time in the hospital as a volunteer, and got to know Whale pretty well. and it might have made it more comfortable for Snow to have him around. (Snow is not ALL innocent, now is she) :)  I think if this is the case, it was not a conscious decision.

2. With her being pregnant, she may have wanted to make sure that there was a well-qualified doctor that she was comfortable with for when the Baby Came. While Whale can be somewhat of a creeper, he is a very capable doctor (at least when he's not drunk). This could have been either a conscious or unconscious decision.

3. As someone pointed out, he may have just been hanging around in the EF waiting for someone to have time to send him on home. But the only people that knew how to get there were Rumple (dead or under control) and Jefferson (Missing in Action), so he was stuck, and then just got sucked back to StoryBrooke in the second curse. No decision here, just bad luck (or maybe not so bad luck) on the part of Victor.

I personally favor option 3.