Prologue

To offer some information to the situation given would be suggesting that you've never watched Showtime's Dexter before or read the book series by Jeff Lindsay. I'm not suggesting this. In fact, you, the reader, may be a huge fan of the show. Either way, this situation is unlike a normal fan fiction story that takes the story given in the show and expands. I'm also not saying that I don't do this, because I do. But I did dabble with the storyline somewhat.

For readers who have already read the series or seen the popular television show, you can skip this paragraph, because this is just to explain who Dexter is for the people who don't know. Dexter is a vigilante serial killer who works for the Miami Metro PD as blood splatter analyst. He's life is greatly influenced by his "dark passenger" who drives him to kill. As a child, he watched his mother's death and sat in her blood for two days before he and his brother (Brian) were found. A cop took Dexter into his home and saw how his life was traumatized by this event, so therefore, he taught him a code. It was to only kill killers who don't abide by the code and to clean up after his mess. In the show, he reunites with his brother, but has to kill him because although he is a killer too, Brian doesn't follow the code.

This is what I did differently: First of all, I do realize that in the show, Brian's "home" as a child was a mental hospital. Not in this case. Here, he had to fend for himself as he lived on the streets after he escaped the mental hospital (he had stayed for a year before deciding this "treatment" wasn't for him). Brian and Dexter did reunite in this case, but not because of Deborah. In fact, Deborah doesn't exist in this story. When Harry (the officer that took Dexter in) adopted him, it was because him and his wife were having trouble conceiving a child. Therefore, Dexter was an only child.

When Brian and Dexter met, there was no "kill this person and come with me" kind of business. It was talking. Curiosity. Dexter couldn't imagine killing him, because he feels that Brian is all he has left. Brian and Dexter don't live together, but they spend a lot of time together. They also don't kill together, due to the different methods they have. Nobody knows about Dexter's brother except for, of course, Dexter and Brian. Rita does exist in this story, along with Cody and Astor, but they don't play major roles. They are just close friends of Dexter. They did (in my story) used to date, though, but broke up due to personality differences.

In other words, my story differs greatly from the show. But I like the thought of Brian staying alive, and how different Dexter would've been. Even in the books Brian stays alive. But here, I take it to a greater level. Here, he is completely and totally part of his life.

I do realize that a lot of people don't appreciate fan fiction. Some say it's because they drive way off the story line and change it completely, and some say it's because of copyright issues. To make this clear, I don't own anything here. I am not affiliated with Showtime in anyway, nor am I the owner of these characters, with the exception of one or two that I have added to the story to put different dimensions in the perspective given by the producers and creators of the show/books. Whatever you think of fan fiction, I hope that you will read this story until the end and think about it differently than you did before (in a good way!).

Dedication

I dedicate this story and all the ideas that come with it to the makers of, actors of, actresses of, and anyone affiliated with Dexter. This is an outstanding, life changing thought - to look into the eyes of a serial killer. So, thank you.