"The Henry we know is yes. That boy...that boy is not the Henry we both know." Obviously, because their Henry would not have treated either of them in the manner they were just treated to. "It's complicated as I said, but I'll try to explain."
He used their connected hands to guide Belle toward the couch so they could sit down before he went into the explanation.
"Judging by what I've heard from the boy, in the world he knows, his Storybrooke, something happened that didn't happen in our Storybrooke and therein lies where our timelines apparently split apart. I don't know how that's possible, but that is somehow what came about. Thus why, it seems, there are two of me."
It certainly turned everything he thought he knew about how time worked on its head. He would have thought that if something had changed, then everything after that change would have been negated and re-written as it took place again, with no one the wiser to the fact that things had changed. Instead, it would seem that their world had split apart, and while their known timeline had proceeded as it should, the changed one had also proceeded onward as it's own separate timeline.
"As for the reason, he's not Regina's son...well, according to the boy, Regina ended up making a mistake that restored my memory ten years early. This apparently set off a chain of events that didn't occur our Storybooke, because in our timeline, I didn't get my memory back until I actually met Emma in Granny's bed and breakfast, when she decided to remain in town. Yet, in the boy's own timeline, it seems that I took Henry from Regina's custody to raise him myself, instead of allowing Regina to do it."
It's hard to explain things when all he has is second-hand information that he doesn't entirely understand himself yet. Yes, he knows it, but knowing it and understanding it completely are two entirely different things.
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He used their connected hands to guide Belle toward the couch so they could sit down before he went into the explanation.
"Judging by what I've heard from the boy, in the world he knows, his Storybrooke, something happened that didn't happen in our Storybrooke and therein lies where our timelines apparently split apart. I don't know how that's possible, but that is somehow what came about. Thus why, it seems, there are two of me."
It certainly turned everything he thought he knew about how time worked on its head. He would have thought that if something had changed, then everything after that change would have been negated and re-written as it took place again, with no one the wiser to the fact that things had changed. Instead, it would seem that their world had split apart, and while their known timeline had proceeded as it should, the changed one had also proceeded onward as it's own separate timeline.
"As for the reason, he's not Regina's son...well, according to the boy, Regina ended up making a mistake that restored my memory ten years early. This apparently set off a chain of events that didn't occur our Storybooke, because in our timeline, I didn't get my memory back until I actually met Emma in Granny's bed and breakfast, when she decided to remain in town. Yet, in the boy's own timeline, it seems that I took Henry from Regina's custody to raise him myself, instead of allowing Regina to do it."
It's hard to explain things when all he has is second-hand information that he doesn't entirely understand himself yet. Yes, he knows it, but knowing it and understanding it completely are two entirely different things.