Dexter had heard the old saying that having a baby changed everything. He had to admit that there was some truth to it too. He remembered those first days, after Meredith showed up Washington and first dropped the news that she was expecting. He remembered noticing how grown up she seemed then. As though the fact that there was another human being growing inside of her made his friend grow up seemingly overnight. Callum had certainly changed her before even being born. He had changed Dexter too. In ways that no one, especially Dexter himself, could ever think he could change. It made him openly defy his father and