His eyes felt hot and prickly, but he was determined not to cry. James could spot red-rimmed eyes from a mile off, and no sliver of sympathy for his brother's plight would stop him teasing Albus for the next month and a half.

Everyone knows that Gerard Way is an idealist. Gerard wants to save the world and the lives of every last one of his fans, and Gerard believes in love and happiness and rainbows and equality and lots of other bullshit like that. Gerard just really wants to take care of his fans, that lost-looking little ten-year-old boy in particular.

The kid looked up at him as he walked by. He had the biggest goddamn eyes Brian had ever seen; absolutely huge, dark lashes, tangled hair. Brian was pretty sure his parents wouldn’t have let him leave the house without at least washing his hair now and then. Parenting was getting pretty slack.

She was a teacher, not a mother. But in the aftermath of a Death Eater attack, Minerva McGonagall found herself rearing two orphaned werewolf boys as her own, one of whom the darkness would do anything to destroy...Harry Potter. AU.

His dad says, "Stay out of trouble," when gates open at every venue. "Seriously, Lib."

Kid!Kirk (transformed) and no one wants to take care of him, so the responsibility falls to Spock. There's an Ambassador on board who doesn't know what happened and see's Kirk messing around. The Ambassador gets onto him and when Kirk talks back, is about to hit him (because in his culture, that's how they deal with children)

Bones takes Jim with him when they're on leave to meet Joanna. Joanna sototally thinks they're together. One problem: they haven't actually considered each other like that before.

Harry returns to Privet Drive after 4th year and finds it...empty! What do you do when you can't go to your friends for help? (Additional Story Notes FYI: a. AU Summer before Fifth Year Fic, b. Not particularly fast paced.)

Patrick is a widower and young father. Pete is an advertising exec with a failing relationship. When Patrick's daughter makes a call to a radio shrink, lives intersect and shenanigans ensue.

Joanna McCoy has big plans for herself, and she isn't about to let anyone hold her back. She'll do things her way, even if it means breaking the rules and burning bridges behind her. Five times Joanna ran away, and one time she didn't.

Following the "interrogation" in Teen Titans 47, for reasons which are only partially his brothers' fault, Jason is in bad shape. Fortunately, Roy is a master at catching falling Robins by now. In the aftermath of Roy's reaching out, Jason finds an opportunity to repay the favor, leading to an increasingly complicated relationship between the two.`

After the 2010 Olympics, life keeps happening, time passes, and things change.

Years down the line, Evan finds out that he has a son, and Johnny just happens to be there when he does...and somehow ends up being Evan's go-to guy for every difficult (and not-so-difficult) parenting situation from then on.

Phillipa has known her Uncle Eames and Uncle Arthur almost all her life, but she doesn't think she'll ever really understand them.

It turns out that Eames has a kid from [info]inception_kink. Between the two of them they manage to make it more complicated than that, and Arthur is lost without a map. (In other words, my annoying tendency to take on fluffy/cracky prompts and get far too invested in the whole thing continues.)

Arthur and Eames get roped into taking Philippa and James trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.

Jensen doesn't ask—Well, he asks that one question, and yeah, in hindsight, he guesses that maybe it was a little stupid, but there are some questions that you just ask, especially when your friend's been shot. 'Are you okay?' and 'Can you walk?'—those are crucial.

Bethany could quite cheerfully scream at her mom sometimes.

A massively self-indulgent fic in which Ronon is John's baby daddy, Rodney is not amused, and Josh just wants to study anthropology.

"I don't want it. I don't like it. I don't want to wear it. Take it off."

The team takes on a case involving foster kids and Eliot's week get very long.

"Spencer!" Lassy shouted over the din of the bullpen. Shawn grinned. He bet his most favoritest Head Detective had just found the 'surprise' that an 'anonymous admirer' had left on his desk earlier.

Arthur and Eames adopt a kid and raise that kid into Neal Caffrey.

Edward Cullen is a single father with two kids, who is in desperate need for a nanny.

Mini-Jack is not happy that he’s fifteen again.

The Mysterious Masked Man of Mega-Might encounters another Champion of Liberty and Justice. Together they fight crime!

take superheroes, add baby, stir (until what have I done)

There’s a small child in Tony Stark’s lab. Tony looks at it. It looks at him.

One of the earliest truths learned by the children of heroes is the simple, universally accepted fact that Thor tells the best stories.

"Okay. So. Kids. It can't be too hard, right? People dumber than us raise kids all the time. Not much to them. Just feed them, water them, distract them with shiny things and make sure they aren't unsupervised for too long. Speaking of which, how long has tiny-spawn been alone in your kitchen?" Steve and Tony (and The Avengers!) from the movie!cast + child!Peter Parker with a very AU backstory involving genetic experimentation aboard an abandoned space station (but that doesn't--strangely enough--feature all that heavily).

Tony offers Bruce something he hasn't had in a long time and then slowly includes the rest of the Avengers.

Fury temples his fingers together. “Tell me how this started?” Phil tries to give a reasonable report of today's incident. As he spent most of his day trying to keep grade-school aged versions of his team away from a team of gunmen, he has only limited success.

Tony Stark has faced kidnappers before. He may only be four years old, but his new friends are strong and brave, and together they can take on any monster…even the ones that come from within. And oddly enough, this is not an AU. Coulson probably wishes it were.

When he was younger, Clint wished really hard for someone. They could be on the road to anywhere and they invariably are. Clint's fingers rest on Coulson's and, like the trapeze or the bowstring, he has learned the value of grip and he doesn't leave bloody fingerprints anymore.

butterfly effect, n. 1. A tenet of chaos theory that describes how small actions can have large effects. 2. A Final Fantasy VII AU working off this premise. When a little blond boy awakens an old Turk from his long sleep, no one could've guessed how things would change.

So gyzym wrote a bunch of Steve/Tony kidfics on tumblr, and I podficced them, because they're adorable and lovely and squee-ful and just so, so perfect. And then there were four more and I pounced on them!

When he was younger, Clint wished really hard for someone. This fic is the prequel to 'you're the one who sees the darkness on the edge of town', which I've previously podficced here.

"Okay. So. Kids. It can't be too hard, right? People dumber than us raise kids all the time. Not much to them. Just feed them, water them, distract them with shiny things and make sure they aren't unsupervised for too long. Speaking of which, how long has tiny-spawn been alone in your kitchen?" Steve and Tony (and The Avengers!) from the movie!cast + child!Peter Parker with a very AU backstory involving genetic experimentation aboard an abandoned space station (but that doesn't--strangely enough--feature all that heavily).

"They're not going to bite, you know," She drawled without even turning to look at him, as she forced a sausage-like Harleybertian leg in a leg-hole. She was smirking, though, he could tell from her voice. "Or projectile venom. Hell, even vomit wouldn't get that far." Prequel to Battlefield Terra. 3 000 words of Mr. Strider meeting his newborn clonebabies for the first time. Also features Doc Lalonde.

Non-Sburb AU. Bro Strider has to raise a kid with gender dysphoria. Trying not to screw Dave up permanently is hard, and nobody understands.

The first time you pass by the troll in the box you kind of try not to see it. It's gross as fuck when people do this. You guess maybe it's better than driving them out into the country and dumping them to make it on their own, or those stories you've heard about people dumping unwanted wrigglers in sacks into rivers--those you try not to think about because fuck, that is not okay on any level but it's not like you can do shit about it.

On the meteor, Rose, Dave, Kanaya, Terezi, and Karkat find themselves passing through a series of hooked-together dreambubbles inhabited by some utterly inexplicable grubs. Grubs that squeak and fuss and cling and chew holes in their clothes. Grubs who resemble to a distressing extent trolls whom the meteor-dwellers killed or were killed by, but essentially grubs who need someone to see to them, even in dreambubbles out of time.

Steve stares at Thor. Then down at the children. It isn't that he doesn't understand what Thor is saying; it's just that he's sure that isn't possible. "Are you saying that those kids are Coulson and Stark?" Natasha demands. Steve is so glad that someone other than him asked that question. Thor nods encouragingly. "I am. Is that not a relief?" "Um," Clint says. He sounds as though he's going to freak out any second. "No?"

Summer camp is the best place for friendship, adventures, and most of all, science!

Karkat thought he knew what he was getting into, when he agreed to help Kanaya and Jade resurrect the troll race. He didn't count on the resurrected troll race including a handful of bright red grubs.

"An immense saucer descending from the clouds and impacting the ground, as the press and through them the people of Earth looked on in shock and awe. That was the scene in California's Mohave desert two years ago today: the historic first view of the Alternian ship upon its dramatic arrival. Their ship was a refugee ship carrying a quarter million children and young adults ready to settle in almost any environment, but they washed ashore on Earth with no way to get back to where they came from. Civil liberties attorneys successfully lobbied for the Alternians' release from quarantine and in the last two years, the Alternians have become the latest addition to the population of Los Angeles." The representitives of a race of newcomers fight to give their people a home on Earth- but even without the deadly killer stalking the streets of LA, just surviving is hard enough for some. Can humans and aliens work together to build a better future? Or is it all doomed to end in bloodshed? One thing is for sure - for sixteen teenagers, this is going to be a dangerous week. AUTHOR'S NOTE: You don't have to know Alien Nation at all to read, understand or enjoy this fic!

--Looking for full day/evening sitter. 2 twin boys age 4. Must have exp. w/werewolves. Must be human. No pedophiles. No teenage girls. Pay negotiable. --

Sidney is starting to get a reputation amongst the Pens for being the go-to guy for free childcare. Or, five times Sidney babysat and one time someone babysat for him.

"We'll make this work somehow, sweetheart, won't we?" he said, swaying back and forth a bit as it warmed up. It probably made him look stupid, but he'd discovered there were a lot of stupid-looking things he'd do to keep his baby girl happy.

Stop the Presses: "Kavanagh gets his revenge. Written for the Documentary Challenge in SGA Flashfic. Posted January 2006." Sandcastles: "Home is what you make it." Golden Rule Days (Our Modern Family Belongs To Us): "How Kat Barton comes to realizes that her very large “family” maybe isn’t normal—but that’s what makes it awesome. Movieverse. Inspired by workerbee73’s Career Day, but it got out of hand. >_>" Momentum: "It doesn't matter who you are; eventually, everyone's past catches up to them."