"I can't disagree with you," Charming says, given that he's been driven to drink more than once when it comes to the discovery of family secrets and how his family is coping with them. Some days before Emma had believed, really believed, he felt like he could use a beer in his hand at all times. "How about I get the first round?" he offers. "As a thank you for remembering and not leaving me to feel like I'm crazy," he suggests, patting the flank of one of the horses as he passes it, leaving the stables before he feels the pull to take one of the horses and get out of there, try and find a door to Neverland just to prove that a hotel can't separate him from his family.

"It's definitely been a rough few years. All twenty-nine of them." Because even after the curse had been broken, the year had been difficult and denied people of most happy endings.