"Norma Louise." Caleb said once more as Romero stood protectively in front of Norma holding the door open for the stranger who had just said he was Norma's brother, they did look alike, but there was something off about him. He knew Norma didn't like telling the truth and he always respected her for it because she didn't trust anyone and in this tough world it's hard to find someone to trust. Especially as Sheriff in a crazy town filled with crime which he slipped under the carpet and the townspeople masked with a quaint peaceful town.

He looked Caleb up and down, his cheekbone was bruised up from a very hard blunt object either a bat or pipe, his posture was a bit forward and he seemed to shift uncomfortably which could suggest trauma to the abdomen, fractured ribs from Alex's guess, being in the military had given Alex such knowledge of deduction after seeing many of his fellow marines injured or he himself carrying around an injury. Caleb's outfit seemed ill put together which suggested he didn't live around the states and his skin color was too tan and red to be from California or Nevada or from Arizona. He could smell a hint of small alcohol, nothing heavy, but he probably stopped at a local bar before coming to see Norma, but by the looks of it this wasn't a reunion. He had been in this exact position before.

"I didn't know you had a brother." Romero said nonchalantly looking to Norma, giving him an opening on deciding what to do next, but Norma seemed frozen, her eyes were filled with fear and tears. Her jaw tightened as she let Alex's hand go and he watched her close the door behind her and pushed Caleb off the porch.

"You need to leave! Don't ever come back here again! Do you understand me!" She yelled at him as she pushed him down the stairs and Romero couldn't really hear what she was saying, but he could see she was really upset as tears were running down her face and the fire within her was lit and furious.

"Norma, please. I came for forgiveness. A fresh start." He said with a guilty smile and she realized it wasn't just her shame she felt every time she saw him, but he had it too, he carried it with him for so long that he never learned to let it go. She felt slightly sorry for him before she remembered the creepy letter he had sent her three months ago, and was even more mad.

"You think you can come here and decide what's going to happen with me and my sons?" She said in a more serious tone as she shot him an angry look and pointed to her chest hitting it hard leaving a red mark.

"No one gets in between me and my sons! Do you understand me?!" She shouted at him as he tripped over a step as she kept walking forward and he seemed to try and form words when he threw both his arms in the air wincing at his side.

"Dylan's my son." He said and Norma went quiet for a moment before she slapped him and hit him. She was yelling and screaming. She was so mad at him, he had ruined her life, everything she ever knew was him and their parents. She trusted him. He was her older brother and he took advantage of her.

"He is NOT your son! I had a test done later after he was born. He's John's." She told him as he grew upset and looked to the ground, Romero was watching the whole scene from the window, but he couldn't really hear what they were saying.

"I don't believe that! Why don't I tell both of your sons the truth about you and me! You're always trying to hide things away and pretend to be a different person, but you're NOT!" He yelled at her and was losing his temper as he walked closer to her.

"You son of a bitch! Get OUT of here! Never come back!" She yelled as she kicked him and pushed him away before he hugged her legs and she tried to pull him away.

"Please, Norma. Please, I need you to forgive me. I can't live with this. It's been haunting me all these years what I did to you." Caleb cried into her skirt as he hugged her tight and she struggled to pull him off before she began to cry again. She hugged him slightly as she knew that the turmoil they'd gone through had both affected them, but he was her brother and how could she deny her own brother.

"Caleb, you can't be here. You can't be in my life." She said apologetically as he looked up to her, he had waited for so long to see those eyes, those blue eyes that he could never find on any other person. She carried an air about her that he was drawn into and he never wanted to let go, he never wanted to let go of her, but she was slipping from his hands once again. He couldn't lose her again.

"Norma Louise, please." He pleaded to her. She looked down at him, he was shaking all around her, tears were falling from his guilty grey eyes and it hurt her to see her brother in such a way.

"Caleb, what you did cannot be undone, it will always be there, when we see eachother, it will remind us of what happened. Forgiveness cannot fix what you've already done." She said as he hugged her legs tight and cried.

"I'm so sorry. Norma Louise. I never meant to hurt you…" He sobbed as she cried as well, they had such a distance between them now, they used to be so close as children, but Norma had grown afraid of Caleb and when she got knocked up by John, she took the first ticket out of her life from Caleb. She decided that her past was not going to be who she was and she made up her own family story to tell Dylan and Norman because she was ashamed. She had done taboo and hadn't realized it until after her mother told her.

"You need to go Caleb." She said calmly as she tried to rip his arms away from her waist, but he was holding her tight to the point where she had to try and balance herself.

"Norma, can I at least spend one last day with you." Norma hesitated and Caleb noticed this. "And after that day, I'll disappear from your life forever, you'll never hear back from me ever again." He said with tears pouring out of his eyes and Norma tore herself away from him and put her hands on her hips thinking.

"You can come for Thanksgiving, but before then, stay the fuck away from me, Dylan, Norman, or anywhere in this area." She said as she walked back up the stairs back to the house where Romero was waiting for her by the door with a concerned look, but she shook her head and walked passed him and upstairs to the bathroom ignoring Norman who asked who was at the door. Romero appeared and greeted them.

"Hey, guys, Norma caught something in her eye when she opened the door for me, she's cleaning her eye out. Anyway, you got any more of those sandwiches?" He lied for her, but all 3 of the youths seemed to believe his words to be genuine and hadn't caught on to anything amiss, the house's walls were pretty thick that it was quite hard to hear what was going on outside, but partially was because there was light music playing from Dylan's phone that stood connected to a portable radio he put in the kitchen where they were casually talking. Emma had gotten up to prepare his plate and set it down beside Dylan who shook his hand and Romero tore the sandwich up, he was starving. It was lunch time and he'd figure he'd go to see Norma to ask her about what had happened a month ago. He'd kept his distance with her because of Rebecca, she had been persistent in her hunt to make him completely hers, but the station was becoming filled with dozens of reports and two drug families were breathing down his neck about the DEA and a couple pot fields which were confiscated by the DEA. The chaos he had been looking for decided to just come back and land him in a very stressful position.

"I'm sorry about that." Norma reappeared with her eyes appearing very red which alarmed everyone at the table.

"It was a large piece of weed dust particles that got in her eyes, it was all over the door." He said as he massaged Norma's shoulder and she gave him small smile.

"That might have been my fault. I left some bags out near the front, the wind must have pushed some out of it." Dylan apologized as Norma shook her head and reached for her glass of lemonade.

"Now, where were we?" Norma said as she fixed herself at the table before Norman and Dylan suspiciously went quiet and were drinking their lemonade. Emma had a wide grin and Romero stared at her in question as he munched on a potato chip.

"Your bubble bath photos!" Norma squealed as she got out of the chair once more and raced up the stairs and Norman and Dylan quickly got out of their chairs.

"Mom, no!"

"It's embarrassing." Norman added as they rushed after her and she was laughing upstairs as they wrestled the photobook from her hands.

The days nearing towards Thanksgiving and problems in the town seemed to die down, at least for the holidays, but come the new year, there would a new problem much greater than all the others. There was one year when Alex was still in the beginning years being a Sheriff, there was a murderer in town who had killed around 3 people until they finally caught him and it turned out to be one of the people in town. One of the innocent shop owners, he would lure them to his house where he'd kill them.

Today, in particular was too calm for Alex's liking, he expected a shooting, or a bomb threat, or something, but he knew small towns don't tend to attract much attention, there was crime, but none he was anticipating for. He had gone to different scenes of car accidents, domestic abuse, drugs, and grand theft auto. He sat in the usual quaint shop he goes in to get his lunch and he saw Rebecca sitting solemnly by the window with her basic salad and cup full of green juice. He completely ignored her which he knew she was probably boiling with anger by being ignored, he could feel her burning holes in his jacket as he ordered some food.

"Thank you." He says to the young cashier who hands him his receipt and number, he turns around to look out the large wall windows and outside he sees Caleb walking down the street and then he notices Caleb stop and duck behind a tree which makes Alex raise an eyebrow. He hears his name and goes to grab his food, ignoring Rebecca's silent argument with him as he walks out and follows after Caleb.

"How long are you in town for?" He questioned politely as Caleb jumped and turned quickly around and smiled nervously as he shook hands with Romero.

"I don't think we've met..." Caleb said letting out a nervous laugh as Romero took his hand and Caleb felt caution around Romero, he hadn't realized he was a cop.

"No, we didn't. I'm Alex Romero. Most people call me Sheriff Romero." He insisted on the last part to which Caleb happily obliged to not wanting to step on his feet and land himself in county for the warrant hanging over him.

"I'm Caleb Calhoun, Norma's older brother." He said and Romero tilted his head.

"Norma's surname is Calhoun?"

"Yeah, but she's been married twice so she took on her husband's names. Which I'm sure you know…" Caleb mumbled the last bit which confirmed Alex's theory on Dylan being from someone else which he could now assume was from her first marriage.

"I see. You have time to chat?" Romero said as Caleb scratched his head nervously and turned around over his shoulder before looking back to Sheriff Romero. He didn't want to be anywhere near Romero because of his warrant and he didn't know if the Sheriff had heard him and Norma arguing, but he decided to not raise anymore suspicion and agreed to go with Sheriff Romero down the street near the docks where they sat and drank a beer far from any other people within earshot which Caleb noticed and was ready to leave, but it was too late.

"Norma didn't seem too happy about you showing up at her doorstep." Alex said as he drank his beer and Caleb coughed nervously as he was beginning to sweat knowing the cat was out of the bag and the Sheriff had heard the whole conversation.

"Me and Norma, didn't have a good childhood, our parents weren't ever really in the picture and we had to look after eachother, but I broke the trust between us and she left. She's been mad at me since, I've been trying to get in contact with her, but she turns me away each time." Caleb said as Alex felt himself step into territory he shouldn't have and Norma would not like him knowing this personal information unless it came from her own mouth and he quickly stood up.

"I'm sure Norma will forgive you. She's stubborn but she always comes around." Alex said nonchalantly as he threw the can in the trash barrel beside him. Caleb had done something that made Norma completely afraid of him and angry with him, Alex didn't know what it was, but he knew it was none of his business unless she told him herself.

"Listen, stay out of trouble while you're here. I don't want to have to arrest you." Alex joked as he began walking when Caleb stood up.

"Do you think she'll come around?" Caleb asked him.

"She's your sister. How can siblings deny eachother over something that happened years ago?" Alex said nonchalantly once more as he hurried to get away from Caleb fearing he might hear something he knows he shouldn't. He waved goodbye to Caleb and went back to his car in town.

The house up on the hill from the BATES MOTEL was beginning to appear brighter, but the snowfall was coming early and Dylan decided to wait on any further installment from the outside as they would be ruined from the snowfall and storm that was coming.

"A clean house, is a perfect house." Norma said sitting down on the couch in the living room where she took off her apron and set it down on the floor and drifted off to sleep.

"Hey Norma Louise." A younger Caleb called out to her and she turned to look at him from where he stood on a tree stump standing tall and flexing his arm muscles.

"What, Caleb?" She replied with an annoyed look at his failure of a gun show as they were outside playing in the forest when she went up to Caleb at the foot of the tree stump.

"Can I try standing on it? I want to feel big." She asked her brother with a bright smile and he leaned down and picked her up to stand next to him on the stump and she could see things in a new perspective.

"I feel big." She said with a laugh and Caleb hugged his sister.

"You are Norma Louise. You're a big strong woman!" He said through gritted teeth as he flexed once more and she mimicked him, they had a contest to see who could push who off and they ended up both falling and scraping themselves in the process.

"I love you Norma Louise." He told her when they layed in the grass fields deep in the open area of the forest where they would stare up into the sky and pretend they were in another part of the world and not in the hell they lived in.

"I love you too, Caleb." She said turning to him with a warm smile as they stared longingly at eachother before she broke it and looked back into the sky.

Norma later woke up with tears in her eyes as she had dreamed of a memory of them when they were still young and living in that house. She turned to look at the clock that read 3:40 p.m., she arose quickly realizing Norman would be coming home soon from school and she went to look for Juno who was asleep on Norman's bed.

"He's coming home, soon." She told the dog who barked in response.

"You want to help me make dinner for him?" She asked Juno who tilted her head in question before barking in agreement and following her down the stairs. She grabbed her apron once more and wrapped it around her waist and took out several ingredients which she began to cut and prepare.

"It's gets lonely here, Juno. I mean when Norman and Dylan were younger it was nice to be home because they were so close to me and I could play with them, but now they barely even hang around me, I don't get to see them until the late afternoon and usually there too tired to do anything." She told Juno who listened to her intently.

"It's just I know being a mother is providing and caring for your kids, but I wish I had some kind of entertainment or something to busy myself with. Do something productive besides cleaning the house and laundry." Juno ran onto the piano and put a paw down on one of the keys which Norma responded to.

"The piano, yes it has been a long part of my life. I should play it from time to time, but Juno I mean something that is productive besides playing songs I already know." Norma was venting from the stress of being alone most of the day cleaning and doing laundry.

"I know! Juno!" She picked Juno up her looked to her in question.

"I'll start sewing again. I used to do it all the time." She said excitedly as Juno barked in agreement and slid from her hands and raced upstairs to grab a ball of yarn.

"I'm not an old lady just yet, Juno." Norma said as she grabbed the yarn from the dog's mouth and set it above the fridge as she went about preparing dinner with new ideas for clothes and curtains in the house as well as bed sheets.

"I need friends." She said pausing later when she was halfway done cooking and Juno whined.

The snow had begun to really settle in to the town of White Pine Bay and Norma decided to go into town leaving Norman to tend to the Motel. She was walking down the town to get some materials and threads she would use for sewing some new ideas she'd come up a week ago.

November 17, 10:30 a.m.

Her IPhone read as she checked it for the list she'd compiled on one of her apps, she examined the list before looking at the descriptions of each of the materials when she noticed out of the corner of her eye a woman across the street watching her or was now approaching her. The woman looked familiar as if Norma had seen her somewhere before, she had red wavy hair and a pretty young face. She wore a dark coat and black dress pants with black heals, she took of her dark shades when entering the store. Norma pretended not to notice her in case this was a coincidence that the redhead had just been staring her at the moment she looked out the window.

"Norma Bates." She turned around to meet the green eyes of the mysterious redhead from across the street.

"Oh, um, yes that's me." She smiled nervously looking around the store before looking back to the redhead.

"Hi, I'm Rebecca Hamilton, we met in the coffee shop about a month ago." She said holding a gloved hand out which Norma nodded and shook.

"Oh, I think I remember you, you're A-Sheriff Romero's friend." She caught herself slipping when she almost said Alex's name, but Rebecca hadn't seemed to notice as she kept smiling, but indeed she'd noticed.

"Yeah, um, I went over your house and we never got to finish our talk. The woman to woman, one?" Rebecca said as she stared Norma in the eyes who hadn't seemed to remember any talk they had at her house.

"My house? What were we talking about?" Norma questioned with a curious smile as she had no idea about the talk or the visit or the fact that Rebecca lowkey tried killing her and blaming it as a home invasion if it weren't for the fact that the invader had got up and left.

"Men."

"Of course, almost anything most women are age talk about." Norma laughed in response as she had wondered what was missing from her life and very much a love life or companion to say the least.

"I think we should get together and go out to find us some suitors, you know a girl thing, what do you say?" Rebecca asked as Norma looked a bit hesitant after being forced to go to that Garden Party with Christine, she didn't want to run into any more people like that, but Rebecca didn't appear to be in any type of group like them so Norma being the open person she was, agreed.

"Sure. God knows it's been quite some type since I've received some male action and as a mother of two boys, it's been a long time." Norma admitted whispering the last part which Rebecca laughed at, trying to win over Norma's trust which seemed to be working.

"How wonderful. I'll pick you up at your house and we'll go from there." Rebecca said with a innocent smile, but inside she was conjuring a deep secret plan that would affect the events to occur in White Pine Bay.

It's starting to get real intense. I keep saying that, but I really mean it. Like things are going to get like really intense, I know there hasn't been much Normero, but it's a slowburn, so as you can see the mutual understanding between the two is there, but it hasn't been initiated and I personally like slow beginnings because if things are rushed it seems a bit unrealistic. The wedding between them in the show was rushed, but it kind of just fell into place naturally so I'm trying to give the same effect of a natural occurrence.

Caleb is a strange person to write on because we don't see him much in the show, but he seems to be genuinely in love with his sister, like he actually cares for her deeply, but he knows it's wrong, but at the same time he can't help it. So I feel kind of sorry for him in a sense that he just doesn't seem to be able to move on from her, like I don't think it's even about forgiveness he wants, but just to be with her.

That doesn't excuse what he did to her though, that was wrong.

Alex, Alex, we need some more of him. Next chapter we'll see more, a lot more.

Also, Rebecca is up to no good. I lowkey wanted to write her as being best friends with Norma to like settle a truce between them, but I don't think it would work because Rebecca is like really possessive. To me she seems so.

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