Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.156.160-20130513200605/@comment-9486354-20130522191511

108.49.79.202 wrote: Rubelle wrote: 173.48.208.208 wrote: I think that the most surprising part of it is Hook and Rumple being able to set their differences aside...it reminds me of how Regina and Rumple were able to set their differences aside to try and keep Cora from coming to Storybrooke. It's "the one thing they have in common".

Perhaps this is like that-A huge reason that it was so easy for Hook and Rumple to do that is because they've both had dealings with or are aware of Neverland and Peter Pan..and they both fear him, it's the one thing they both have in common.

Well, until Henry came down the road, and then got kidnapped, bringing the two things they have in common together, and then...well, yeah.

and both of them cared for baelfire and Henry is baelfire's son. Yeah, but I feel like a bigger reason for that is because they both feel that they owe it to Bae, seeing as they both fucked up as fathers for him, versus Henry actually bringing them together the way I'm thinking Peter Pan could bring them together and the way Cora brought Regina and Rumple together.

They were both essentially fathers to him. Even though he didn't know hook for long, hook admitted that Milah and him talked about returning to get him so they could be together as a family. Hook probably sees Bae as the last connection to Milah. Hook was willing to take the risk on him and protect him but when provoked he let anger and bloodlust take over.

Years later of course when he realizes (thanks to a reminder a fonder days of when he was happy with bae on the jolly roger acting like family) that bae's son is the one everyone is concerned about being left alone if the town is destroyed, he returns to honor him. He left Bae to the lost boys once. He doesn't want to leave Henry to a lost and lonely world.

Rumple and hook seem to know in that glance when reading the map that they are better as allies because their final destination is neverland. They both have a look of fear and concern for their grandson/kinda step grandson.