The cup had worked. As she had known it would of course, it really did act as a symbol of their love. It, like their hearts had been broken and mended time and time again but was now here with them in this strange new land, put back together, but not perfect. Still chipped. "How its possible is sort of complicated." she began, her fingers now laced with his and still holding on to the cup, the both of them. "Would you believe we got pulled against our will to another land?" she asked him just a little more amused than she probably should be at the irony of it. But for once they were in this place together. They had all they could want.
Belle would help him see it could be good here, even in spite of Hook and Regina, they would fight for good reasons, he didn't have to tell her he couldn't be with her or couldn't come back to her. No, she'd known she would see him again. She always knew, and so she had never lost her hope that he would return.
"There was a battle here recently, against an enemy I can't even begin to explain. He took so much from us here but there are plans to retrieve them, using magic of a sort. I don't really understand it but then this world is like nothing I'd even ever read about."
Which even if she did say so herself made it quite unique.
"Thing is Rumple, you were here before, with me. And its okay if you don't remember it, you don't need to, it was sort of another version of you. There's a you and me in Storybrooke still, or in...in Neverland, and if we return we resume those lives from the same point we left. But I truly hope we never return. You're here, Henry's here, he calls me Grandma but that's just, well I don't know why. Then there's baby Aislinn, she's such an adorable little thing and well, I should tell you now that Bae, he was once, but this place, if you have enough hope that you will see your son again, then you will." She wanted him to find Baelfire again with all her heart, much as his arrival might actually send Emma loopy given the presence of Hook as well. Besides, Belle thought she might like to get to know her not quite stepson.
And we have friends here. I live with Emma and some others in quite a large property, and we had a house, we were never short for money obviously but you left and living there got sort of lonely. So I allow people to stay in it. For free." she added cheekily wondering if he knew the meaning of the word. "We can be happy here." she told him, leaning her head against his chest just revelling in being back in his arms.