Summers over and everyone's going home with their parents, except Max. (Cover art by tuxedoflask)

It's the end of camp, and David decides to take in Max after he notices how terrible his parents are. Of course his parents were willing to give him up for nothing. When David brings Max home, he thinks it's going to be amazing, but it's not all he thought it would be. For both of them, this whole new situation is new. David has never been a dad, and Max has never had someone who showed as much attention as David is doing. Both of them are overwhelmed and stressed out about every thing going on. Of course, Max tries to keep to himself and David tries to help no matter what. Maybe they will both realize how to help each other and might become the family Max needed and David wanted all along.

This is something I wrote a long time ago and doesn't really represent me now. You guys can read it but the child abuse might be triggering. Also I don't believe I handled a lot of the subjects in here the right way.

Max has lived a hard life, and can't take any more abuse, so when camp is close to its end, David got rather suspicious that something might be going on with max. Max refuses to tell David, and in doing so goes back with his abusive family. Max then decides to leave his family after a painful beating he had received. He then runs away to find David. (Not completed yet)

DAVID IS MAX'S FOSTER PARENT AND NO ONE SHALL CONVINCE ME THAT HES NOT. I DIE WITH THIS HEADCANON.

Max has a secret he'd prefer no one find out about, but when matters fall out of his own hands will Max be able to stay cool or will he finally crack.

As the days grew closer to the last day of camp, David started to see a change in Max's behavior. When the day finally arrived, David saw just how terrible Max's parents actually were. Now David has to fight to get Max in to a loving home.

The dust has settled after Daniel, and things have returned to a sense of semi-normalcy. Then David begins to act strange. He's hiding things, and there's someone on his phone he just can't seem to stop talking to. David has a secret to keep, and Max is determined to pry it out of him. What he finds, though, is worse than anything he could have possibly imagined. He falls into a spiral of paranoia. Surrounded by ghosts of the past, enemies at every turn, and the realization that he can't trust anyone, Max finds that David is only one side of a double-edged sword. (Takes place after season 2, episode 1)

It's the end of the summer, camp is finally coming to an end. Everyone's parents come to pick them up for the starting school year, everyone but Max who's still waiting. Even long after everyone is gone, he's still there. Waiting for his parents to show. Realizing they mostly forgotten him, David and Gwen take Max to the police station to file a report. But a thought begins to dawn on David when realizing Max deserved better than his current parents. David (and even Gwen to a lesser degree) set out to become Max's new adopted (or at least foster) family because even a shit like Max should get some love. [An easy-going Dadvid Camp Camp fanfic]

Max is tossed around from home to home, until David decides to foster him. Will Max set aside David's differences and accept him, or will Max be returned to the orphanage yet again? WARNING: story may contain spoilers and swearing, along with mentions of childhood abuse/starvation. read with caution. No art shown is mine, but the writing is.