"Well, you see when the town was being destroyed by that lovely fail safe of Regina's, Swan had the idea to use the one and only bean we had to open a portal to drop it in. There was no guarantee that it was going to work. So I did the ole slight of hand, gave her an empty pouch, and took the bean and sailed away with it with plans to use it to save my own skin," Hook explained. If he had stuck to that plan he'd be back home now or some other land. He wouldn't be stuck here. And yet if he had done that he wouldn't have meet Isabela. It was a thought he still wasn't sure how he felt about. Maybe it would have been best if he hadn't been here.
"After a rather inspiring speech I still handed her the empty pouch." Her little speech had been rather passionate and if it had been anyone but him they might have changed their mind right then and there and forked over the bean. If it hadn't been for the mention of Henry loosing his father and who his father was, Killian never would have been reminded that he had once been willing to change for someone. "Then I learned that Bae was dead and he had Henry's father. I had an attack of conscience as I was sailing away and I turned back because I know that's what Bae would have wanted. By then though the town and been saved and we couldn't leave. Let a man do the right thing and bites him in the ass."