Alicia has spent her life in kitchens, using the heat and chaos as both an escape and a proving ground. Known in the culinary world as Lloris, a rising star with an elusive identity, she built her reputation through relentless work, never allowing the spotlight to fall on her-only on her food.
But the past has a way of catching up, and after one catastrophic night in the kitchen-one mistake, one outburst-everything she built comes crashing down.
With nothing but impulse and desperation driving her, Alicia abandons her life overnight. She erases Lloris, sells everything, and takes the next flight out-landing in Chicago, a city she knows nothing about. Reinventing herself under a new name, she manages to secure a job at The Bear, an up-and-coming restaurant with a chaotic energy all its own. Determined to keep her past buried, Alicia throws herself into this fresh start, unaware that the very things she's running from
-pressure, talent, and a stubbornly persistent famous chef-might make it impossible to stay hidden.
Carmy x Fem!Oc and The Bear x Fem!Oc
WARNINGS: Yelling, cursing, death, grieving Carmy being not so good of a person, English is not my first language so I apologize for my spelling and grammar, story doesn't fully follow cannon.