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"I went into your room to look for you because I needed to tell you the truth!" Penelope shouted, pointing a trembling finger directly at Marina. "I went there to tell you that Marina is cheating on you. She is pregnant, Colin and you are not the father!"
The room fell into a dead, horrified silence.
Marina’s smirk vanished instantly, replaced by a look of profound, fabricated shock. She let out a sharp gasp, covering her mouth as tears immediately flooded her eyes.
"Colin, no!" Marina cried, turning to him and grabbing his hands. "Yes, I'm pregnant—I was going to surprise you tonight, I swear it! But it's yours. How could you say something so horrible, Penelope? Just because you got caught stealing!"
"She is lying!" Penelope screamed, taking a step forward. "Colin, please, you have to believe me, she's using you!"
"Shut up!" Colin roared, stepping in front of Marina to shield her from Penelope. His face was flushed with pure rage. "Just shut up, Penelope! Don't you dare defile her name to cover up what you've done!"
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06 Jul 2026
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If you smell something burning it’s my heart by SamHandwich
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Jul 2026
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After becoming something of an international celebrity, Colin’s agency demands he hire a bodyguard for his next trip home.
Eloise reminds him their dear friend Penelope is actually a coordinator for a personal security firm and occasionally takes private clients.
Colin thinks it’ll be a laugh to hire her for the week. Until he’s faced with a Penelope who is independent, unexpectedly feisty, and entirely more interesting than he’s ever bothered to notice before.
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OR: The one where Pen has a black belt in Krav Maga and Colin discovers he’s kind of into a strong woman pushing him around.
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06 Jul 2026
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After her best friend dies in a freak accident, Penelope is given custody of her newborn daughter, upending everything she thought she knew. Colin, who has not been able to get in contact with her for a month due to a falling out that he has no recollection of the reason for, steps in to help and doesn't leave either of their sides.
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18 Jun 2026
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For a Good Cause by SamHandwich
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Jun 2026
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Penelope is convinced to attend the university’s annual winter carnival under the promise she’ll see the rarely-in-London-anymore Colin Bridgerton. When she does spot him, however, he’s running the football team’s kissing booth.
Which makes her want to throw up, quite frankly.
Perplexingly, it also puts certain things into motion Colin discovers he is not prepared for.
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- 67,609
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- 12/12
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14 Jun 2026
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Not Today (I'm in Milan) by ellieclover
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Apr 2026
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It's Penelope's birthday, a date always circled in red, never to be missed.
So where in the world is Colin?
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26 Apr 2026
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Penelope has absolutely had it. Alfred has finally revealed his true colours. Portia will never change.
When her friend Rae's backpacking trip to Australia coincides with Penelope's life and relationship falling apart, she decides to take the risk and tag along.
An unexpected job presents itself and Penelope finds herself working in a pub, surrounded by some very sweaty, very muscly Australian Rules football players. Including one Colin Bridgerton.
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26 Apr 2026
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Oh God, she could smell him. Everywhere. Why had she not thought of this when he bounded in fresh off the plane and asked if he could move into her flat?
It had always driven her wild, and it was never a cologne, a soap or a body spray. It was him.
Salty and warm. Like he'd just come from the beach his skin briny and sun drenched. He'd never been one for splashing on fragrance, deodorant yes, but he'd told her once he spent so long crammed in next to people in planes and on trains that he'd hate to be the one with the overwhelming scent.
Whatever it was, she felt she was drowning in it some days, brushing by him in the kitchen as he's returning from a run. Warm and rumpled, just out of bed, as they pass each other in the hallway. It made saliva pool in her mouth, made her want to dig her nose into his chest, dip her tongue into the curve of his spine.
As reluctant as she was, she was going to have to try and ignore it. If they were going to live together, as roommates, she had to.
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26 Apr 2026
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Well. If this just doesn’t take the biscuit. Just when she thought the night couldn’t get any worse.
“Are you mad? I would never court Penelope Featherington. Not in your wildest fantasies, Fife!”
The boy she’s loved since she first laid eyes on him all those years ago, disparaging her for all the Ton to hear. She’d put up with it when he’d implied she did not count as a woman. Helped to free him from a planned entrapment by her own cousin, to her own family's detriment. Accepted that he only saw her as a friend. She had worked very hard on that part.
Penelope is a lady. She does not curse. But this is a step too damn far.
In one night she’s discovered her cousin Jack has been fleecing the Ton and has chosen to run, leaving the Featheringtons ruined and practically destitute. Her best friend Eloise has discovered that she is Lady Whistledown, declared them no longer friends and ravaged her bedroom. They had fought so viciously, words spoken in the heat of the moment, explanations and apologies ignored.
Any other night she would have fled in tears at Colin’s words. But tonight? After all this? She is fuming.
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26 Apr 2026
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Penelope wakes up Saturday morning with her head absolutely buzzing, she's expected to be hungover but this is a new side effect.
Burying her head under her pillow, she realises that the buzzing is not from her hangover but its her phone, endless notifications blowing it up. Instagram notifications? Why would she have so many Instagram notifications?
Penelope vaguely remembers snapping a series of pictures of her, Edwina and Genevieve going wild on the dance floor at the club last night but she wouldn't usually post them to Instagram. God, hopefully she hasn't posted a stray tit or something.
The number times Colin has been tagged is astounding, it looks as though the post is blowing up. Penelope has no idea how they've even found her post, she rarely has him on her page and never tags him. He does have a few unhinged super fans, maybe they have alerts set up for her posts?
Jesus, poor Colin. What the fuck has she posted?
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25 Apr 2026
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At the Featherington Ball, Colin Bridgerton demonstrates that he is a man of honor when he defends the Featherington ladies against Jack Featherington’s scheme. Penelope decides to match his bravery by revealing herself as Lady Whistledown to him.
In a world where Colin never declares “I would never court Penelope Featherington”, and Penelope trusts Colin with her secret identity, Colin and Penelope have no secrets between them except their love for each other.There is a lot of exploration of Colin and Eloise coming to terms with Penelope being Whistledown, because although they forgave her in the show, we didn’t really get to see them talk.
Bonus: Rae has long suspected that Miss Penelope had a secret, and on the night of the Featherington ball, she overhears it confirmed. As she helps Penelope find her way toward her young man, she finds a little love of her own.
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19 Mar 2026
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In These Eight Years by Soirialc
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2025
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Following the death of the Lord Archibald Featherington, his cousin, an old, ugly, grouchy man who had no qualms sending his insolent son off to the Americas becomes the new Baron. Eager to free himself of the burden of his cousin’s wife and daughters he sets about arranging a marriage for the eldest daughter with an old friend, paying the dowry for the second-born daughter and declaring their mother their burden as he saw them wed. The youngest daughter was trickier, he had no more friends in want of a wife and the chit was dowdy and a little young to be sure. When he hears his former neighbour is looking for a governess for their only daughter, he writes his young and intelligent cousin references and sends her off to start a new life. When the 1814 social season begins, and one Eloise Bridgerton tries to call on her friend she is informed that Miss Penelope has moved on and the Bridgerton family have never seen nor heard from their friend since. That is, until 8 years have passed, and the Lady Kathani Bridgerton is in search of a governess for her young daughter.
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18 Mar 2026
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buried in the shallow grave by snowokay
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Jun 2026
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In a world where the marriage ritual leaves a permanent mark on you, the word that reflects your match’s first impression of you appears in your skin.
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Penelope had known since she was eight years old who she would marry. She had heard stories about him, how brave and noble he was, and spent her whole life in love with the boy in the picture.
Something that had never crossed Penelope’s mind, however, was the possibility that Colin Bridgerton would be disappointed upon meeting her.
“Speak now, Penelope, with clarity and conviction. What is the word, bestowed upon you by the gentleman ordained as your match, that defines you in his eyes?”
The celebrant’s voice suddenly felt like a distant hum, her vision blurred by the tears welling up in her eyes. On her wrist, visible to anyone close enough to read it, was written her word with golden letters.
Shallow.
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11 Mar 2026
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Best Laid Plans by bynightmylove
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Apr 2022
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Penelope Featherington starts the new social season with a mission: To make Eloise Bridgerton forgive her for lying to her for literal years. This will not be helped by the fact that she has to bring back Lady Whistledown for good to secure her family's dire financial situation, but she still has to try. Eloise is her best friend after all!
Colin Bridgerton also has a mission: To make Penelope Featherington forgive him for telling the whole world she isn't marriage material. To ensure he succeeds, he comes up with a brilliant plan to get back into her good graces and get the happy-ever-after she deserves to boot. (Colin Bridgerton is an idiot.)
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Continuation of season 2. Spoilers for season 2. TV-continuity. Season 3 speculation. Polin-centric with a hearty dash of Penloise-friendship.
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- Part 1 of Best Laid Plans-Verse
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- 12/12
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13 Feb 2026
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Colin Bridgerton was not a fool, despite what his siblings might think. Nor was he merely a charming and handsome darling, as Lady Whistledown had labeled him in the past. No, Colin Bridgerton was well-read and well-educated, and he was observant, even though his current predicament required no real outlay of any of these qualities.
Colin Bridgerton knew he had fallen out of favor with Penelope Featherington.
Watch as Colin Bridgerton goes to increasingly mad lengths to keep Penelope Featherington safe and sound (and away from other suitors).
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09 Feb 2026
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What Came Before Colin Realized by sofiyathealmostwriter
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
14 May 2021
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"At any rate, I am not going to marry soon," Colin grumbled, sending his older brothers a glare. Then, with a slight rise in his voice for finality, he said just about the stupidest thing of his life. "And I am certainly not going to marry Penelope Featherington!"
“Oh.”
And so begins a lengthy love story... 7 years later. But what if we delve deeper into those 7 years? What if we get to watch Penelope and Colin change and mold as individuals and as a friendship throughout that time? What if Polin was the slow burn I so very crave, my Dear Reader?
Read and find out.
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- Part 1 of Polin: The Journey and the Destination
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09 Feb 2026
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there's just some things that never change by penelopecolin (sexymonk)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
02 Jul 2023
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After successfully avoiding Colin at the first four balls of the social season and - somehow - gaining the attention of a Marquess, Penelope is forced to have the conversation she's been avoiding for almost a year.
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- 6/6
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09 Feb 2026
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Searching for the moon and sea by Seifdy
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Aug 2025
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What if Penelope reacted differently when Colin accused her of trapping him?
Penelope ran away from the Ton, giving Colin what she thought he desperately wanted: his freedom. She loves him too much to allow him to be trapped in a loveless marriage with her.
Colin never expected to lose Penelope; his anger towards her pushed her to leave him, promising he would never have to see her again.Thanks to the money she made as Lady Whisteldown, she fled to Greece, passing as a young widow named Anne Bridges. She is set to be a single mother and raise her child away from a society that never cared for her and from a father who would think the child is only a product of her "plan entrapment".
Thanks to the help of his brothers, Colin will do even the impossible to get his Pen back.
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09 Feb 2026
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The Scents of Longing by LillyWhitefield for shipperdetous
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Sep 2024
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Colin Bridgerton embarked on a grand tour with high hopes of triggering his first rut and presenting as an alpha. Despite his efforts and newfound experiences, he returns at the start of the new season unchanged—except for a bit more worldly wisdom. While the Ton spreads whispers that he is a beta and his family assures him of their support no matter his status, Colin cannot shake the feeling that something more lies dormant within him. His draw to Penelope Featherington and her scent only adds to his confusion.
With the season ahead, perhaps Colin will finally uncover the answers he seeks.
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09 Feb 2026
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Penelope Featherington leads a quiet life. She goes to work, she takes care of her family and every Friday evening she meets her friends for dinner.
That is, until, the Colin Bridgerton, famous Hollywood actor, opens the door to her best friend's apartment.
Colin Bridgerton should be happy with the life he's leading. He's famous. He's newly single. He has everything money can buy. But something's missing.
TW: Referenced alcohol abuse
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- Part 1 of cardigan universe
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09 Feb 2026
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The Gentlemen's Wager by murderbymushrooms
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Mar 2024
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“This is not happening Colin. I am not going to play any part in this, do you hear me?”
“Of course, nobody would expect you to fall over at my feet, especially in light of my unforgivably rude comments last Season.” Colin said, all reason and calm as he collected his hat from a footman, “And what would be the entertainment in that? You must be permitted to test my mettle as a suitor. Indeed I am beginning to look forward to the chase.”
“There will be no entertainment! No chase!” Penelope protested, panic steadily rising within her. “Colin-”
“Good day, Miss Penelope.” Colin smiled, familiar laughter and devilry dancing on his handsome face. She watched in mute outrage as he tipped his hat to her and strolled out her front door.
After his careless words ruined Penelope's prospects on the marriage mart, Colin is determined to do everything he can to restore her reputation and to find her a good match, even if it means pretending to court his best friend.
However, outside forces with a grudge against the Bridgertons inadvertently transforms a wallflower into the most coveted prize of the London Season of 1815.
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- 14/14
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08 Feb 2026