From the Mind of a Monster
By Effie

Disclaimer: I do not own Dexter, who belongs to JL, Showtime and other corporations, nor BtVS, which belongs to JW and other companies/people.

Time Frame: Post Chosen-BtVS; Season 2-Dexter

Note: I will be drawing heavily from the television show, for those who've never read the books, there will be very few elements drawn from them so no worries.


Hot, humid, home. These words would describe Miami for many of the city’s residents. For others, Miami offered more than a place to live and work, it offered the hunt. The satisfactory quench of blood lust, the need to kill, taking the life of another being. Most of its inhabitants satisfied their blood lust fishing. For others, fish were not satisfying enough; their game was their own species: their neighbor, or sometimes their own family. Out of all of these kinds of monsters, only one held himself back. That Monster was Dexter, the Dark Avenger, the monster in the body of a man, unknown to the world but a certain few, most of them were lying in the bottom of the ocean but they had known in their last moments who he was.

Today one of those individuals had entered his home. She too was a killer, a killer of monsters, a murderer who in her nightly struggles tried to overcome her past deeds. Dexter may have had his own reservations about hunting her down had he known what she had down but Dexter only knew her as a killer of monsters. The literal kind, the kind that preyed upon men in fairy tales and hid under the bed waiting for the child to fall asleep before eating him up all while his parents remained unaware and believing they did an adequate job protecting their child. Her name was Faith and she sought the monster because the world finally had become aware of his deeds. His victims were speaking through death, the world knew and now Faith had to find a way to shut them up.

While Dexter was trying to prevent his name from become a household name like his epithet, the Bay Harbor Butcher, Faith began to hunt him down.