fox mulder | sam winchester
okay, so that completely rules out that theory. I couldn't remember if you'd said before what the jump was when I was talking to Scully. When we both came through originally we were at a point maybe a few weeks from each other? It wasn't a lot of time between; same year, different date.
Scully goes away, is brought back, but this time a good three years ahead of me.
Then a week later I hit the giant mushroom and level-up, except I'm still about six months behind her - at least after we compared notes that's what we're thinking. She knew approximately when the last thing I remembered happened, and she knows what date it was when she came through, so - we've got that baseline.
My theory was that maybe it was to actually bring us back to a point where we'd know similar things - but the six months was throwing me. Not as much as two years is though - that's quite a bit of difference.