About the ball

hooks-and-feathers:

I always found this moment in Captain Swan’s history extremely special. If anyone was to ask me to rank a top 10 scene, this scene would be up there because I always found it so beautiful. 

This is what I’m talking about;

I always felt this was Emma finally allowing herself and going there, thinking about what it would be like if they did get together. I know, it’s a lot of extrapolation just from one look.

But we got episode 5×21, and this;

And all of a sudden one of my favorite scenes ever becomes even more special because I always wondered when it was that Emma might have accepted that she was in love with Killian, or fell in love with him, and I always felt that the ball was when all of this happened for her.

I know the book was put there as a plot point for when the pages Killian sent about how to defeat Hades came from the Underworld. But you know, the book didn’t have to be open, and Emma didn’t have to be looking at that picture, because Emma is a modern girl, and I’m pretty sure she has pictures of them together in her phone, and she could have been looking at those while the book was right next to her.

But she went back to a moment where she was emotionally vulnerable with him, and where her walls were down, and she took the time to really see him like she hadn’t since she left him at the town line.

And this for me makes the ball so much more precious.