I love you! Sorry but I’m quite excited, you are my first TMI Tuesday person. Thank you so much for asking! 🙂

Your question made me think actually. In my plan Belle couldn’t hear him but I just went back and watched Charming wake up Snow, and Emma wake up Henry. Snow says “the glass coffin gave me pause” and Henry said “I love you too” in answer to Emma’s preceding line of “I love you.” Now, we haven’t really seen people interact with someone under a sleeping curse – just the kiss. I don’t think canon really addresses it one way or another.

What we do know, is that Hook’s father was under a curse for a hundred years. The nurse who took care of him, fell in love with him somehow (I don’t quite get how, given that she wouldn’t have known him) and woke him with TLK. Now, I suppose the nurse could have learned about him, but if he had no connection to the outside world, then how could he possibly reciprocate? One thing we do know about TLK is that both parties need to feel the same way (why it doesn’t work with amnesia etc.)

So, in answer to your question. I am going to change my plan because I like this idea better. Yes Belle can hear him but not clearly. It’s going to be indistinct, like a dodgy radio connection. She’ll hear more than enough to get the idea. I wasn’t going to have the first Belle scene until chapter five, but I’m going to add a new scene to chapter four.

Thank you so much!

#I got asked a question#this should probably not make me this happy