Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28162607-20170103120839/@comment-91424-20170106152247

Aine1989 wrote: How exactly do you know it was "several months" later? I would take two months tops because we've never had any reason to believe otherwise.

No. In "Child of the Moon", David makes a reference to the storyline from "Red-Handed" to "The Stable Boy", and says to Ruby, "A few months ago, everyone thought Mary Margaret was guilty of murder. She needed someone to believe in her. I didn't do that. I am not going to make the same mistake with you!" He says "a few months ago", not "two months ago". And, as I've already pointed out, while most of the timeline of the second half of Season 1 has been mapped out in the show, it was never stated how much time passed between "The Return" (where Kathryn recovers after her ordeal) and "The Stranger" (where MM starts teaching again), which allows for a timeline gap of an unknown length between these two episodes - and that fits perfectly with David's comment. So no, your comment about "two months tops because we've never had any reason to believe otherwise" is incorrect. There is more than enough reason to believe otherwise.