Refresh March 2023. Trigger warnings: bereavement, grief. The premise for this story is that Jane Spring was always a cold mother to Charlie and Tori and didn't have the redemption that comes towards the end of Volume 4 of Heartstopper or in This Winter. There are influences from the graphic novels, the novels, the TV series and various fan fictions and theories and Alice's recent resumption of the series on Patreon. But no spoilers. I've just tweaked the language here and there, put in a couple of extra paragraphs, removed sentences that in retrospect I feel didn't need to be there. When I wrote the original of this, and my other story about the teachers in Staff Room, which I intend to revisit, it was almost a straight brain-to-paper spontaneous process. When I write stuff I let it sit as it is, for months sometimes, before I can return to it freshly, as though I'm reading it for the first time. It'll never be perfect and I might re-write it again at some point in the future. But I AM quite pleased with it all the same.