Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26179634-20130211141544/@comment-1922261-20130218020253

I'm continuing with the thory that Neal/Baelfire isalso Peter Pan. He arrived here more than two hundred years ago and gets lost is this world, therefore ending up where all lost boys do, Neverland. He lives here for many years (Hinting that line "More years that you can think of") being inmortal with the persona of Peter Pan. Being here, he becomes enemies with Hook for maybe an unknow reason, or maybe because Hook knows who Peter Pan really is. Years later, Hook is able to capture Peter and asks for a way to kill his father, to which he replies by telling him about the dagger. Hook returns to the Enchanted Forest to ask Belle for this dagger and Peter Pan, now having his identity uncovered returns to our world at about the time the Dark Curse was enacted, now becoming Neal. So, if he was fourteen when he got here twenty eight years ago, he might as well be in his forties as you say. This is the only way I can figure out Baelfire kept himself alife for all those years.