Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20160713182420/@comment-25375217-20160926181400

There are pictures of Belle on the Captain Swan balcony... Don't Emma and Hook live together now, though? So even if she took refuge with Emma, she'd still be taking refuge with Hook.

I think Belle going to Hook makes sense. We didn't get to see it, but they apparently bonded quite a bit over the six weeks between 4a and 4b, and since then they've been pretty consistently shown as being on good terms. Given that Belle doesn't interact with Snowing, Emma, or Regina very often, and the one time she wanted their help (in 3b) they shrugged her off, I'd say Hook makes the most sense.

Of course, spreading out of the main cast, it would also make sense for her to go to Ariel or Leroy. And eventually, probably Jasmine. But besides that, all of her friends are dead or in the Enchanted Forest. Anna and Merida both left, Colette's dead...

Belle has done little to keep up her friendships with anyone besides Rumple for the last few years, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually a plot point. Hook wouldn't be her first choice, but there's not really a second one.