“Dead to Rights” [Buffyverse drabble]

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Dead to Rights
Copyright December 2024

Setting: Buffy, post-series; Dexter, Season 1
Spoiler(s): “Chosen” (Buffy S7-22)

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The ‘magus’ Faith tracks to Miami: total wannabe, no juice, no mystical knowledge. Does enjoy human sacrifice, meaning valid target … but then this guy grabs him first.

Hidden, she watches and hears what comes next: isolated, immobilized, confronted with photos of victims. Brisk kill, dismemberment into neat packets, disposal at sea. Slick, practiced … not this fella’s first time.

His mail says ‘Dexter Morgan’. Shadowed to work: a cop? Two more ‘victims’: same process, including proof of guilt.

Serial killer, sure … but he kills monsters she can’t touch.

… As long as he sticks with those, she’ll leave him be.

Professional courtesy.


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