Defend or Kill
Author's Note: I do NOT own anything from Dexter. Sam Brooks is an original character I have created and I tailor to each story. She is the only thing in this story I own.
Introduction
Dexter watched from a distance as Lisa Brooks- recently released from prison because there wasn't enough evidence to keep her on the charge of the murder of her boyfriend- walked from the police car to her daughter- Sam Brooks- who very unwillingly gave her a hug. He remembered the case. It was almost four years ago to the very day…
Doakes called Dexter at about six in the morning one Saturday in mid-November and ordered the young blood splatter analyst to meet him at a crime scene. As he stood in the blood-covered kitchen examining the splatter and taking pictures, listening to Doakes as he asked a girl a startled young girl questions. He watched them from the corner of his eye as he continued working.
"So you weren't home at all last night?" Doakes asked.
"No," The girl who had to be no older than 18 shook her head. "I was with a friend and her parents all weekend for a camping trip. I wasn't home until mom called me after calling you."
"Mind if we call your friend to confirm this?"
"No, I'll give you the number," the girl took out her phone and let Doakes have her friend's phone number.
Dexter looked at the girl as he snapped a picture of some of the blood. She was faking her terror, just like Dexter had to hide things behind fake emotions so he doesn't draw attention from anyone and no one tries to learn of his extra-curricular activities. And he's the only one who could tell she was doing it. She was good, but what was she hiding?
A week after that, Lisa Brooks was arrested because they had found the murder weapon in her car, still covered in blood and finger prints. Sam moved in with a friend before starting college the following fall.
Now here she was four years later, forced to see her mother once again. Dexter wanted to know the truth. So he did what any curious person would do, he looked through old news articles. And then he hit the jackpot.
Lisa Brooks was the main suspect in the death of her late husband- Joseph Brooks- but had been released due to a lack of evidence. Any picture of Lisa with the then 10 year old Sam pictured a very stern looking Lisa and a young girl who was trying to avoid her mother's affection.
In the years since the second murder, Dexter had kept an eye on Sam, but had seen nothing that would make her a killer besides faked emotion. She seemed to be just another broken person.
But he had nothing to prove Lisa had done it either. Until he got a visit from a "friend".