AU where Alex and Norma grow up next door to one another.

Alex and Norma decide to have a baby together, and experience a year of highs and lows as they try. Merry Ficmas! "We should have a baby." "What?" She breathed out, unsure of what she'd heard. "Let's have a baby."

Set fifteen years before the events of "Bates Motel". When Sam Bates drags his wife Norma and her two young sons to the town of White Pine Bay, the family is immediately met by Deputy Alex Romero who finds himself drawn to the headstrong young mother and the lives of her two boys. Warning. Very mild erotica. Nothing too graphic.

Alex is everything Norma had ever wanted in a husband, so we can't she stop manipulating and antagonising him? Why can't she let go and be with him the way he wants to be with her? Trigger warning - Chap. 1 has mild references to past sexual violence. Future chapters may refer to this more implicitly. Will not be the main focus of the story though.

Norma and George get into a relationship, but it's not as good as it seems. Will Alex step in to protect Norma?