[Seeking Recs] Orc x Tavern Girl story
There’s this story I read years ago before I had an actual ao3 account I just saved the tab 😭. From what I can remember the story starts off with a tragedy where or main girl (OC) and her mother get attacked in their village by orcs which are seen to be dangerous brutes and her home is always going to war with them. And in this one battle her mom gets murderer by an orc and an orc [GRAPHIC] (g)rapes the main girl and basically leaves her internally broken which makes it to where she can’t have kids. And despite how pretty she is she’s basically outcasted for the fact of what happened to her and that she can’t have kids anymore. And so she basically just goes about her life alone just day by day motions hating/fearing orcs cause of all she lost due to the one that violated her and murdered her mother.
This is where it gets fuzzy for me, but years later I think she ends up saving one and like housing him, and I think he was considered to be on the smaller side for orcs so not as threatening to her and since she saves his life he has a begrudging acceptance for her which basically means while he stays in her home and heals he in debt to her which he HATES. But she refuses to put up with his attitude cause she doesn’t like him either.
But story progressed and they start to become amicable with each other until they’re like you’re not that bad. She eventually opens up on her past and he’s like where actually pretty alike because it turns out his leader is this predator like guy that constantly uses his strength over the orc we know and ‘takes advantage’ of him too. And it clicks for him that he loves her and they do ‘it’ but he leaves the next day and she’s heartbroken about it cause it seemed like he only wanted one thing but it turns out he actually left to kill his leader so that he can never come after him when he goes back to her and inadvertently keeping her safe as well.
There was a second story the author made that I never got to read cause I accidentally closed the tab and wiped my history. But what little of it that I did see the girl decides she done with the town she grew up in and she’s moving to the one next over to open up her own tavern and to start fresh after she thinks the orc she took care of ditched her. And the orc that left comes back to find her stuff gone but he remembers her scent I think and tracks her down?? And that’s all I got.
One scene I vividly remember is that our orc cuts this guys fingers off cause he touched our main girl inappropriately while she was at work and left them in a bag on her table. If anyone can link this story or literally anything similar I’m in your debt😭😭😭