Fanfic Recs / Dexter

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Authors and Websites

• Marcus Gaudry at FF.net
• Recommended by: ihe
• This author wrote an amazing series of Dexter and Criminal Minds crossover. Everyone in both show is in character, the plot is intriguing and manage to show an incredible amount of Dexter's cast.

General Fics

The Edge of the Unknown by lonelywalker

• Recommended by: thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Dexter gets caught. Deb's first confrontation with him after he's arrested.

Water Through a Rusted Pipe and its sequel Something is Cracking by Pirate Perian.

• Recommended by klepto, feral, thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Deb sees a side of her brother that she's never seen before, and asks some awkward questions. Dexter, in answering them, decides to experiment with truth.

The Way by Basingstoke

• Recommended by: thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The way Frank Lundy finds a killer.

What I Am by Morgan Briarwood (morgan32)

• Recommended by: thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Miami's most prolific serial killer, Dexter Morgan, is arrested for murder. Ironically, this time he is not guilty.

Women Are Wicked When They're Unwanted by trollprincess

• Recommended by: thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: AU in which someone else turned out to be the Ice Truck Killer.

Tiny Monsters by linaerys

• Recommended by: thebadplace
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: When left alone with Dexter following the apocalypse, Deb begins to suspect he’s not what she thought he was.

Shipping Fics

Auld Lang Syne by Rinaway

• Recommended by Marcus S Lazarus
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: Dexter/Debra
• Synopsis: "My sister, the stalwart cop and overwhelmingly good person, entered that shipping container with the intent of saving me, and ended up doing so much more. A few weeks ago, she told me she was in love with me; it was only in that dark, narrow passageway that I really even began to process what that really meant." My version of Season 8. Debster-centric.

Break Me Every Time by Solia

• Recommended by Marcus S Lazarus
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: Dexter/Debra
• Synopsis: Deb reacts to Dexter's news about Argentina and Dexter considers some of the implications. Alternative events unfold from there. Rated M for coarse language typical of the show and some explicit content. Based in the eighth season, with references to events of previous seasons, so please don't read if you're not up to date.

Even though I’m broken, will you accept me? by DragonRyuuji

• Recommended by Marcus S Lazarus
• Status: Dead
• Pairing: Dexter/Debra
• Synopsis: Debra Morgan is broken. Dexter doesn't know how to help her but he knows that he has to keep her safe. That is, even if it means he has to get rid of a future he had wanted to experience. But what happens when Debra becomes so messed up even Dexter can't understand it? (Rated M for language, violence and later sexual content. Occasional dark themes.)

Our time to endure by DragonRyuuji

• Recommended by Marcus S Lazarus
• Status: Dead
• Pairing: Dexter/Debra
• Synopsis: When Harry Morgan dies and leaves behind his two teenage children, and Dexter is sent to a boarding school far away, how will the two of them endure? Debra is left to pick up the pieces of her broken self, and she waits for the coming day that she will be reunited with her brother. Six months. She could endure. A Debster, High School AU.

Crossover Fics

Darkly Dreaming by Ragnarok Skurai (Hannibal Crossover)

• Recommended by Spooner Wilkins
• Status: possibly complete, works as a one-shot teaser
• Pairing: Dexter/Hannibal(movies/novels only)
• Synopsis: Post-Hannibal(movie/book), Dr. Lector is in Miami. He was looking for many things. Dexter was not one of them.

DexNote by noidea12 (Death Note Crossover)

• Recommended by feral
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: The Miami Police Department calls in the services of the Great Detective L to catch the Bay Harbor Butcher. Unaware that the title of L has been usurped by genius killer Light Yagami. Dexter versus Kira! Who will win?

First Time by AllyKat (Heroes Crossover)

• Recommended by feral
• Status: Complete
• Synopsis: Dexter catches Sylar. The End.

Forever Silenced by Benry Pale (Hannibal Crossover)

• Recommended by Spooner Wilkins
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: Dexter/Hannibal(possible movie/book versions only but I could see it happening in the series as well)
• Synopsis: Showcasing a very possible consequence of these two meeting should Dexter be the one to gain the upper hand.

Splatter by my_young_friend (Heroes Crossover)

• Recommended by feral
• Status: Complete
• Pairing: Sylar/Dexter
• Synopsis: Slash Fic. After investigating a crime scene that seemed wrong and physically impossible Dexter comes home to an uninvited guest.

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