Archive of Our Own

A Supernatural canon-divergent series following Maia Amelia Anderson Winchester: trauma surgeon, hunter, ritual specialist, founder of Hawthorne House, and a woman sent back through time with memories of a future the universe erased.

In 2003, Maia wakes in her nineteen-year-old body carrying grief from a life that no longer exists. She knows who dies. She knows what breaks. She knows the Winchesters long before they know her.

Determined to save her parents, Dahlia, Sam, Dean, and the children fate keeps trying to steal from her, Maia begins rewriting the road ahead. But every life she saves creates another fracture, and something ancient is watching from the cracks.

The Time Wraiths are coming.

And this time, Maia refuses to let tragedy be the only ending hunters are allowed to have.

NOX AEVUM is a canon-divergent Supernatural series built around time travel, erased futures, hunter family legacy, grief, romance, and the question of whether fate has the right to decide which lives are allowed to matter.

This series begins in 2003, when Maia Anderson wakes in her nineteen-year-old body with memories of another life: a life where she became a doctor, loved Dean Winchester, built a family, lost almost everything, and was sent back by Jack under circumstances she does not fully understand at first.

This is not a simple fix-it. Maia’s return creates consequences. Every person she saves becomes another fracture in the timeline. Her parents, Dahlia, the Winchesters, Hawthorne House, and the children who may or may not be born again all become part of a larger war against fate itself.

Central elements of the series include:

• Maia Anderson Winchester — Asian American trauma surgeon, hunter, researcher, ritual specialist, and temporal paradox.

• Dean Winchester / Maia Anderson — a romance rebuilt across altered timelines, grief, memory, and choice.

• Sam Winchester / Dahlia — a parallel relationship arc centered around survival, trust, and building a future outside of sacrifice.

• Hawthorne House — a hunter sanctuary, clinic, safehouse, recovery center, training ground, and family legacy created to challenge the disposable way hunters are expected to live and die.

• The Time Wraiths — corrective entities drawn to Maia because she exists outside her proper place in fate.

• Zachary and Meredith Anderson — Maia’s loving but strict hunter parents, whose influence shapes her approach to family, medicine, lore, and survival.

Planned Reading Order:

1. Deja Vu — Maia wakes in 2003 with memories of a future that should no longer exist. This is the beginning of the reset, her first attempts to save the people she lost, and the start of Hawthorne House.

2. Mnemosyne — Memory becomes both weapon and wound as Maia’s altered timeline deepens. The past she remembers begins colliding with the life she is rebuilding, and the cost of knowing too much starts to show.

3. Palimpsest — The rewritten timeline begins showing its scars. Old canon events resurface in altered forms, saved lives create new consequences, and the first true signs of correction appear.

4. Aevum — Time itself becomes the enemy. The Time Wraiths move from distant shadows to active threats, and Maia is forced to confront what it means to exist outside fate’s design.

5. Zeitgeist — The final confrontation with fate, memory, legacy, and the future Maia refuses to surrender. This is the endgame: Hawthorne House, the Winchester family, and a life hunters were never supposed to be allowed to keep.

This series will follow altered canon events while expanding the hunter world beyond motel rooms and emergency patch jobs. Expect monster lore, ritual work, emotional damage, found family, medical realism, Winchester chaos, and a very stubborn refusal to accept the barn ending.