I am hosting a poll over on Patreon about Neighbours. I’m wrapping that up this weekend, but I can’t decide who would be on top... in the official tossing of the salad, as it were. There is also an option to keep it SFW. I am leaving it entirely up to the poll results as of Saturday morning local time.
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I wonder if Orcs in the Bright universe consider humans as only “one-night-stands” but not “forever”. They don’t mind doing it with a human but would never see themselves mated to a human woman for life. This could be the reason why we hear of hybrid kids but don’t see an Orc and a human lady together.
I'd be that one girl at the Fogteeth party who is not getting drunk because I don't drink and is not dancing because my fucking hip always hurts and I'd just sit there like talking to Nyfain and Jack about books and trying to convince them that no, I'm cool if you wanna go dance, I'll just sit here with my coke
Mar checked herself out in the mirror and grinned.
"Man, I look cute." She said, took her things, and left the house. Walking to the bus stop to go to class.
It was 6:15 am. She had good timing and the streets were deserted save for a few people jogging or walking their pets. A man in a brown trench coat walked in front of her, holding a plastic bag with a tupper. Mar paid him no mind, she was thinking about getting to the bus stop in time.
Suddenly the man looked back, as if he had just noticed Mar was there, she looked as non threatening as ever, with a pink cupcake shaped dress, a pink bow, white socks and her white shoes, all with a pink tote bag. Yep, she was no threat at all.
The man turned, startling her and making her look at his crotch, where he was all but shoving his exposed cock at her. Frozen in shock, she couldn't do much as the man turned and ran off, leaving her there, scared, confused.
This can't be happening again... she thought to herself, feeling her throat tighten and like the air was not getting to her lungs, her vision blurred. She was having a panic attack, there, in the middle of the street, that couldn’t be good. She shut her eyes tight, trying to breathe but to no avail.
She heard voices, male voices coming close to her, someone touched her arm and someone tried to take her tote bag but she clutched it with all her might, opening her eyes she found herself surrounded by orcs, six of them. One of them was airing her face with what looked like a magazine. Oh...
“She’s awake?” Asked one of them, he looked much younger than the others, she still couldn’t breathe and was hyperventilating, so that same orc kind of shoved the others away. “You okay?”
Mar nodded, but barely, the tall orc airing her with the magazine looked like a freaking tank but tried to look as nonthreatening as possible. They asked her what happened and she tried to tell them about the man. The man in the trench coat, he got away.
“A man? As in a human man?” One of them asked, then they cleared the sidewalk. “Can you say where he is?”
She could see him on the other block, walking calmly, the orcs probably came from around the corner and just saw a panicking human girl and decided that couldn’t fly. She raised a trembling hand and pointed at the retreating man, the orcs looked at themselves, one of them, shorter than the rest but taller than the young one, nodded.
“Okay, doll, you stay here.” He patted her head gently. “Mikey will stay here with you.”
He pointed at the younger one, the one she had seen first upon opening her eyes, then at the other three.
“Special D, Sharps, Junior and Non-Stop will come with me to get this guy, you stay put, okay? I’m GQ, this is Mike, Mike, stay with her.”
Mar nodded, as GQ winked a golden eye at her and then patted Mike. They walked off in long strides, the man wasn’t even paying attention, he probably didn’t know the orcs were off to get him. She still had trouble breathing, so Mikey tried to distract her. He asked if she lived around, told her she smelled like candy and distress and asked what her dress was for, asked her to think about anything else and talked and talked until she could breathe easier. She could hear the orcs roar in the distance but Mike distracted her.
At some point, they came back, dragging the man, and she had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, she didn’t want to be near that person, she didn’t want to even look at him.
When they were nearby, Mike got off the sidewalk and raised his arms in the other direction, Mar turned around and noticed a police car rounding the corner. Mike was signaling for the car to come.
“Is it Jakoby?” GQ asked, jogging to them as the car came closer.
“I think so, no one else comes around here.” Mike kept looking, until the car was near them and an orc police officer got off, along with a black human, Sharps and Non-Stop were dragging the flasher from both arms, beaten up.
“What did you guys do this time?” The cop asked, GQ looked hurt.
“First of all! It’s not what it looks like.” He said.
“It looks like you beat the crap out of a dude and have a scared girl with you.” The other cop said, leaning on the police car.
“Officer Ward, you wound me. We are doing our duty as upstanding citizens of the city of Los Angeles.”
“Mhmm.” Jakoby nodded, but looked unconvinced.
“This dude showed his junk to this girl, right here, in the middle of the street, officer. We just roughed him up a bit so he wouldn’t escape justice.”
Mikey and Mar looked at GQ like they had never seen an orc speak so eloquently before in their lives. Even Sharps looked suspicious. Officer Jakoby turned to Mar.
“Is it true?” He asked, voice way too gentle to be an orc. She nodded, GQ pointed at Mar and kinda raised a brow, as if he were saying ‘See what I mean?’
The officers debated what to do, and called for backup, they didn’t want the perv to be in the same car as Mar. Another unit showed up after a few minutes, two female officers got off, one of them nodded at the orcs. They all nodded back. Jakoby turned to Mar and gently guided her away.
“You are going with the ladies to the station, we need a statement from you. My partner and I will take the perv, alright? You’re safe now, he can’t hurt you.”
One of the female officers ushered her to the car and closed the door, as they got on and turned the car on, someone knocked on Mar’s side of the police car, the officer scoffed and pushed a button for the window to go down, Mike was there, shifting from one foot to the other.
“Hey, do you live around here?” He asked.
“Yes, I do.”
“Cool!” He looked a little excited, but toned it down when he noticed the officers were looking at him. “I mean, if you live around here, you tell anyone who bothers you that the Fogteeth got your back, okay?”
Mar looked at him for a moment, then nodded.
Okay, she wanted to say, but was interrupted by the officer turning the car on, and GQ yelling at Mike from across the street.
“Hey, Romeo! Officer Hero here says they need our statements! Come on, we’re going on Non-Stop’s truck!”
Mike stepped away from the car as it drove away, looking at it drive away and out of sight, Mar did the same, until Mike was a small dot in the middle of the street.
One of the officers looked back at Mar and gave her a half smile.
“You got yourself a squad there, girl. Consider yourself lucky.”
Yeah, maybe she was lucky.
BONUS:
Nick stood in the middle of the sidewalk, looking at the gang with his hands on his hips.
“Considering you guys did your good deed of the day, I’m gonna give one of you the honor, please don’t kill each other over it.” He took the handcuffs with one finger and moved them close to the group of orcs, snorting. GQ looked like a child in Christmas morning.
“Me! Me! Pick me! I’ve always wanted to do that!” He raised his arm enthusiastically, Special D groaned.
“Let him do it, Jakoby. I wanna get my hands off this perv fast.”
Nick gave GQ the handcuffs and the orc skipped to handcuff the human, then Nick shoved the man in the police car.
“Don’t run off, we need you to give statements.”
“I’m going to a police station and not because I was arrested?” Junior beamed. “This is the best day of my fucking life!”
