While having to deal with killing Bob Paris, Alex also gets roped into helping Norma protect Norman. Starting to realise the extent of his investment in her happiness and her safety, will someone from his past help him decide to act on his feelings? Or will he continue convincing himself that she's nothing but a burden on him?

A Normero Fanfic. Events in this story happen about the finale of season 3. In order to do this story justice I enlisted the help of my dear friend and superior writer Aprivatetrap. She's an amazing writer and has taken on the task of writing what i had envisioned for this story! Thanks for you're patients and Enjoy!

This is a different version of Bates Motel, starting with Norma right after she has married Sam Bates. The story is better than the description.

Alex and Norma run into each other in one of the vacant motel rooms. What comes next? Something neither or them ever expected.

Norma decides that she and her two sons deserve better than to live in fear of her husband, Sam. So she packs up and drives her kids to a nice little town in White Pine Bay. How was she supposed to know that the quaint town would change her life completely? Both for the better and worse.

Five year old Norman goes missing and Norma and her husband, Sam go to Sheriff Romero to get help. What happens when Norma begins to catch feelings for this mysterious man?

After marrying Alex and taking Norman to Pineview, Norma had been having a hard time coping with all that has happened. Through countless efforts of trying to get in touch with her son, Norma finally had the opportunity to talk with him, but instead told her that he could never forgive her for making him stay at Pineview and he no longer had feelings for her. When she got home, she ran into Alex, who she only married for insurance. Everything was bringing her down, but there was one thing, one person that was holding her up, Alex Romero.

Alex meets Norma and they start seeing each other. But after a while he starts to realize that there is something very off about her. She's keeping something from him. She's keeping something from everyone. (This will only be about 7 or 8 chapters long).

The first moment Alex Romero laid his eyes on her, he knew he would always protect her no matter what. So when a strange man is staying at the motel, Alex can't help but to dig deeper into who this man is.