He'd been living with David for almost four years and hadn't seen his parents for even longer than that – but adoption? David wanted to adopt him?

He wished everyone would just shut up about soulmates.

Max had never pictured himself as a time traveller. David had never imagined himself as a time traveller's guardian. Magic tied them together anyway.

Max is used to a life where nobody cares about him, so when the Sleep Apocalypse hits and the only way for him to survive is by staying awake, he's more than happy to do his own thing. Then he meets David, an optimistic camp counsellor who has one main goal in mind: make sure Max survives. Day 5 AU.

The anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts rolls around, year after year. There's no escaping it. George also can't escape the fact that as of the twentieth anniversary, he has officially spent half of his life without Fred at his side.

The finer details of how it happens don't matter, not to Max. Every part of the process is complex and it makes his head hurt whenever anyone attempts to break it down for him. All that matters is this: his parents don't pick him up from camp, and a year later, still having received no word from said parents, David is officially his foster parent for the foreseeable future.

Vernon Dursley was not invited to the restaurant Lily chose to announce her and James' engagement at. (The announcement still does not go as planned.)

Stupid. This is stupid, Max thinks, even as tears of frustration bud in his eyes, David won't even like this stupid gift.

It's David who convinces Max to go to college, and David who is there to see Max's hard work pay off.

After a cave collapses, Simmons struggles to remember why he was in there with Grif to begin with.

Sometimes, stomach bugs are not just stomach bugs; sometimes, a David is needed to make sure everything ends up okay.

Having lived by Dean's side for almost the entirety of his life, Sam knew exactly when something was wrong with his brother. Despite Dean's best efforts to hide them, Sam picked up on even small, subtle details. It was a skill that John and Bobby hadn't managed to master, and one that Sam himself had only perfected in the last couple of years. Tag to 11x17.

As great as hugs are, standing on a new knee injury for a while isn't always the brightest of ideas. Tag to 12x22.

The rational part of him screamed that Dean was joking, that the fact he could speak again was enough confirmation that his memory was back. But another part of him altogether was full of alarm, already hopelessly attempting to come up with a new plan to figure this out and save Dean. Tag to 12x11.