Hi everybody! This is my first Bates Motel fanfiction, I didn't feel like writing one before because the characters are so strong I was afraid to miswrite them. But then I saw 04x01 and being fond of Normero I came up with this and I wanted to share it with you to know how you feel about it. So please leave me a review to let me know if I should continue this or not!

Also I am French so I am bound to make mistakes, just let me know if it is too obvious so that I can correct it. Enjoy !

Alex closed his door, still chocked by the request of Norma. She just asked him to marry her like it was no big deal, like she just asked him to fix her toilets. Hell of a woman she was, nothing could stop her to help her son. He sat on his couch, his thoughts in turmoil. Of course his first instinct was to refuse; he couldn't be like that with her, her fake husband... No he definitely couldn't survive this.
But then he remembered the ending of their talk. She didn't even seemed too disappointed. She would find someone else she said. He wouldn't dare admit it but he felt kind of proud knowing she came to him first. He was sort of her only friend, and she was his only friend too. If you call that friendship. Anyway he couldn't stand the thought of Norma being married to some random man she just met in a bar and who would just take advantage of her for his physical needs. She would be the death of him, but he had to protect her from this, to make things right. So he just picked his phone and composed her number. What this woman could do to him ...

When Norma went home, she felt a little disappointed that Alex didn't accept her proposition (after all she kind of liked him and it would be fun to have him around as her fake husband) but she was too worried about Norman being alone to think more about it. And what she feared just arrived. She found her bedroom's door cracked on the floor and nobody at home.
"Norman? Normaaaaan!"
No answer...
She realized he was gone and burst into tears on her bed. She just had him back and she felt a terrible mother for losing him again.
She took her phone to try to call him but it rang first. It was Alex. She didn't feel like talking right now but she picked up anyway, because it was him perhaps.

"Hi Alex can we ..."
"Norma I've been thinking about what you said and..."
"Alex can we talk later ? Please ? Now isn't exactly the right time" she said trying to mask her sobs. But he was no man to give up like this.
"Norma what happened ?"
"Nothing I'm okay."
"Don't you dare lie to me Norma, tell me what's going on" he said with a soft voice.
"It's just... Norman. He is gone again" she cried.
"I'm coming right now, stay at home and then we will look for him together okay ?"
"Okay..."
She hang up laying down on the bed, watching the ceiling and remembered old memories of Norman when he was young and had no mental issues, when she heard the door crack open. Was Alex already here ? He made it pretty quickly.
"Alex? You're here?" She said running down the stairs.
But she didn't found Alex, just Norman, sitting at the kitchen table.
She rushed to hug him when she noticed he had dirt on his hands.
"Where the hell were you Norman? I was worrying sick about you."
"You're the one who left me locked in your room mother. But anyway I was here the whole time what's wrong with you? And why did you think I was Sheriff Romero?"
Norma didn't even answered. Her heart broke when she understood he just had another blackout and needed more help than she could provide him. She really had to take care of this insurance problem. Speaking of which, she decided to call back Alex.
"Hi again Norma, is everything ok?"
"Yeah actually, Norman just went back home. I guess with the recent events I'm worrying too fast you know. Anyway thanks for proposing your help and sorry if I made you go out for nothing"
"Actually there was something I wanted to talk to you about so you mind if I stop by ?"
"No not at all !" She answered almost too quickly. "I mean we just talked like an hour ago but I get it if you already miss me."

Alex hang up wondering what the hell was really going on with Norman. Then he repeated in his head what he wanted to tell her to provide making a fool of himself. He parked in front of the motel and went up to the house where Norma opened the door before he had the time to knock.
"So hi again!" She said with a big smile.
"Yeah, as you said. May I come in?"
"Actually I don't really want Norman to see you here. I mean he just had a terrible experience and seeing the sheriff could ... Nevermind let's go to the motel shall we?"
"Uh.. Okay then."

They both went down to the motel without a word and they sat in the little room behind the office.

"So, what is it about sheriff?" She smirked.
"Well hum ... As I said I thought about what you said and ... I'm ready to marry you. But forget about the whole having sex together thing you know"
"Why would you do that then?"
He didn't expect such an answer. In fact he didn't know what he expected at all.
"I don't know Norma, because that's what I do."
"No that's not and you know it. You're not this kind to everybody. Why me?"
"I don't know Norma !" He almost shouted. "I .. I just feel like with all the shit you went through in your life, you deserve something good."
"And that would be you?"
"No! No no I meant Norman being helped by good people in a good place and everything."
"That's really sweet of you Alex. No one ever did something like that for me without expecting ... You know some kind of rewarding."
The fact that she told him that like it was normal, but with a slight note of sadness in her voice made him sick.
"I don't want you like that Norma."
"Oh so you do want me"
He didn't know why he said that. He was feeling so embarrassed and Norma's deep gaze on him made him more uncomfortable. He scratched the back of his neck.
"Norma please don't ... Make things more complicated than they are. I'm ok to be your husband but don't think it give you the right to act like a smartass around me."
"How romantic."