[ he pays close attention to her form as she twirls -- not for lewd reasons (well, mostly not for that, as he's still a guy), but to take in the differences, if there are any, between the buffy he's seeing now and the one he last saw in that graveyard in the now-decimated sunnydale. ]
Four months. [ about the time he was stuck at the bottom of the ocean the last true time he won't admit to. easier to say it was the one time during the war than to dredge up unpleasant memories about the lengths his son went to while caught up in the mists of grief, desperateness, and misunderstanding. ] At least we're not alone.