[Time stands still? There's an odd relief in hearing that news, he'd rather go right back to where he was taken from rather than wind up having missed the whole thing, or worse. Not to mention that means there was a way back, if Gold was here then gone and back again? Could that mean they could go home, if only to finish what they started? After that... once everything was fixed and safe, well, if he got pulled back here again then so be it. So long as Emma and the others were getting their Happily Ever After.]

It hasn't been two months, that's for sure and you just up and disappeared before we all arrived on the island.

[He takes a swig and sighs.]

So what is it they want us to do? Just... live here as their prisoners until they get bored?

[And since Rumple didn't remember being here to begin with then he probably doesn't remember how he left.]