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-Captain Hook, S2E06: Tallahassee

We get this scene also immediately after Neal was ready to abandon Emma and flea to Canada. Emma volunteers to get the watches and help him fence them to keep Neal with her. She cannot be abandoned again. (And, she will be in that storyline very soon.)

Meanwhile, Hook has spent a bit of time climbing a beanstalk with her and decides that he will be the bait. Emma still seems stunned he does it, because she expected him to run the moment she saw the size of the giant - when he fully realised the danger he would have to face. And, he doesn't.

Chaos indirectly told Evangeline that Jacks cares about her. In the Hollow, no matter what his original and current plan was, he left it behind to stay there with Evangeline. If it wouldn’t have been for Evangeline, Chaos and Lala, Jacks was happy with Evangeline there and put everything behind. It was her that made him leave.

And it was so sad. Jacks was hurt ans Evangeline was hurt. He just wanted to believe she loved and wanted him the was he does. He wanted to stay in the hollow with her. I got so sad myself*-*

Both Chaos and Lala noticed and sensed since OUABH that they have growing feelings. Especially about Jacks since they know him better.

In ACFTL, he admitted he thinks about her and wants her from the beginning. But he lied to himself because he would hurt her (that’s what he thought). And tell me all what you want, but I am still not convinced that all his goal was going to Tella. And if, then it actually became a plan at the end to save Evangeline. Because if she can’t remember him, the risk of hurting her decreases. And after her memories were taken away, he realized how much it hurts him. How much it would have hurt him even when he would have went to the past with the stones. He would always crave her, love her and want her.

I think he planned too much behind her back for the Valory Arch. But Jacks is a loyal man. He didn’t do all of it for himself. He did it for Chaos and Lala and the Valors too.

And since the curse on Evangeline that Lala put on her (I still can't believe no one was mad at her and she got away without any consequenses when she constantly hated on Apollo and Aurora although she did the exact things) would kill her, Jacks' motive changes again: to save Evangeline from the Archers and Mirror curse.

The only thing I truly hate is, and I also just skip because it is absolutely irrelevant, yet I want you guys to know: the Darling Sister, and the first fox disaster. The Darling thing was just for mock, to unnecessarily fill a page that made zero sense and was completely banal and disgusting. A page I rip. Though about the fox girl, it is confirmed that he wasn’t in love. Evangeline is the only girl ever he fell in love with. Cares for. Wants and loves.

And the things he told Lala. I absolutely think he is corrupt to lie to others and himself because deep down he knows telling the truth will hurt Evangeline, kill her.

And Apollo, oh boy. I wished he would have had another end. He clearly cared for Evangeline and his struggle in TBONA was so heartbreaking. Jacks saw that and that is why he told her in ACFTL that he believed she is safe with Apollo. I liked Apollo too and would have welcomed it if he would have had a happy ending himself. Same goes for Luc. Both of them got cursed and then their lives changed for the worse. And no one cared?

The initially presumed curse would have doomed him to loneliness until he found his true love.

The ACTUAL curse deprived him of ANY chance at a relationship, even what he got was contentment and not absolute happiness and an earthshuttering love. It doomed him to ultimately only be able to pursue the person who would NOT love him because of an assumption, and that's more cruel at the end of the day.

Just imagine Jacks throughout the years. He DID murder and hurt people, but he wasn't murdering girls for kicks. Yet any time he found someone, felt some fondness and might have thought "hey, this time it will be different" he was bound to be wrong. But not knowing that the curse was NOT meant to allow his kiss to leave even his true love alive he was bound to assume that the fault was either with his feelings or of the feelings those girls had towards him. Jacks was not just lonely. He was hoping against hope, and was getting crushed each and every time.

I do have spoilers, so this is your warning not to venture further if you haven't finished reading.