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“Please, Pen. Just tell me what to do to earn your forgiveness. Whatever it is you need, I’ll do it because I just can’t stand the idea of not having you in my life. Of not being friends—”
“Maybe I don’t want to be your friend anymore!”
Penelope blurts it out before she can think better of it. There’s an agonizing silence that stretches out between them in the darkness, and then the broken sound of the single whispered word Colin speaks hits her like a bullet to the chest.
“What?”
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The one where Penelope decides to ghost Colin after overhearing him say he wouldn’t ever dream of dating her, only Colin isn’t having it and he makes a special trip home from university just to get to the bottom of why she’s been ignoring him.
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22 Jul 2026
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Waiting, Wanting by Ember_143
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Odyssey - Homer
26 May 2026
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"...I remember how you were when I was carrying Telemachus. You could hardly keep your hands off of me, my King.” Penelope laughs.
“Can you blame me, My Queen? You were carrying my heir.” Odysseus groans, kissing his Wife, tugging her close, his hands going to her hair. It is up but loose enough that he can slip his fingers into it to cradle her face. He smiles into the kiss as he adds, “I do not recall you complaining then about how my hands lingered upon your form.”
“I would never complain about your hands upon me, not when I crave them so,” Penelope says her words becoming breathy as his hand on her waist tightens barely slipping under the fabric.
“I constantly find myself craving you, My Wife” Odysseus admits his hand on her waist going to cup her backside as he stands from their thrones.
“I know,” Penelope says with a mischievous grin, feeling his hardness forming solely from her proximity.
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21 Jul 2026
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Most changes in life come to people unexpectedly. Colin Bridgerton never expected to lose his older brothers so suddenly. He never expected to become the 10th Viscount Bridgerton and head of the estate. And he certainly never expected to fall in love with his best friend, Penelope Featherington.
**Takes place a few months before the start of S3.**
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21 Jul 2026
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Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton are best friends. That is, until a romance with Marina Thompson threatens to ruin everything.
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20 Jul 2026
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But the horrible part was, she'd do it again, breathlessly.
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20 Jul 2026
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Colin is obsessed with Penelope’s farts.
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20 Jul 2026
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Colin was startled away from his spiralling thoughts when she finally spoke up.
“Colin,” her whispered voice sliced through his confusion, face still downturned. “Listen to me.”
He could see her right foot was twitching and her fists were tightening into her bright daydress - as if her body was struggling to contain the entirety of herself. He stepped closer, craning down his neck to try and get a glimpse of her face.
She looked up then, incensed determination radiating off her.
“Either you distance yourself completely from Marina,” she pronounced, her eyes hard and her face coloured with a pale red, “or else I will sever all ties with you.”
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Colin would do just about anything Penelope asked of him.
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18 Jul 2026
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World Becomes Perfect by Shivtiv
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Apr 2026
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Colin messed up. Penelope's mad. They need to sort things out.
My late submission for the double date prompt for Polin Week 2026.
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18 Jul 2026
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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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18 Jul 2026
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A certain author just turned 50, so here I'm exploring an older Penelope with a younger Colin - a 15 year age gap. He's 21 when they meet and it's a slow burn, he falls first and she pushes him away, but if that premise gives you the ick, back out now please!
Begun for Penelope's birthday in Polin week and for my own birthday!
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18 Jul 2026
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“I doubt you know what you are getting into,” Eloise said. “Or what will be asked of you to support a wife with a family like the Featheringtons.”
Colin seemed to find her funny. “You do know I am a grown man? I am older than you. I have been to many places around the world, alone. I have money and a house. I am buying horses. I employ servants. These things don’t make me better than someone who does not, but you insist on treating me like I am Gregory’s age or even too young to calculate the price of sweets without you counting my coins.”
She did not feel superior in knowledge to anyone about marriage. She was not allowed to have a man without dooming them both to what she saw as an alarming risk of regrets that would be generations of unhappy people who interpreted a love match as a concession to nagging.
“I have trouble . . . not understanding you. I think we understand each other about the world and we are not that dissimilar. We both love Penelope. Your reaction is to bring her closer when I have had to give her up,” she said.
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- Part 103 of A Friendly Debate
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17 Jul 2026
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Fragments of a Lost Mind by Bookworm1103
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Jul 2026
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After a terrible car crash, Colin wakes up after nearly a month in a coma with a startling realisation - He cannot remember the last four years of his life!
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17 Jul 2026
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Some love stories begin with an unexpected meeting.
Colin and Penelope’s began with a promise.
They were only fifteen when they fell in love, convinced that what they had was simple, eternal, unbreakable. For years, it was.
But time has a way of pulling people apart. Colin became consumed by work, travel, and responsibilities. Penelope stayed behind, filling the spaces he left empty, until she began to disappear from his sight altogether.
What was once effortless love became silence. What was once certainty became doubt.
After eighteen years together and fourteen years of marriage, one devastating argument changes everything. A slammed door. A business trip. A goodbye that never came.
Penelope refuses to let their story end without a fight. Determined to save the marriage she still believes in, she follows Colin before the distance between them becomes impossible to cross.
But some journeys change everything.
And some doors should never be opened unless you’re ready for what’s waiting on the other side.
Penelope wasn’t.
Because when she finally finds Colin, he isn’t alone.
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15 Jul 2026
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Colin returns to the ton, feeling that something isn't quite right.
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Foolish One by LeighAnne_Balsdon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Dec 2023
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Colin announces his engagement to Marina and Penelope doesn't take it very well.
She makes a hasty decision to run away from Mayfair, to save her broken heart.
When Colin and Eloise find out that Penelope is missing they decide to look for her themselves.
What they find, however, is something no one was expecting.
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12 Jul 2026
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"Pen and Alfie are having their third date on Friday night!" Hyacinth explained with the kind of giddy smile only a teenage girl could credibly muster, while simultaneously leaning over the table and attempting to steal Eloise’s wine glass. Penelope, meanwhile, looked directly up at the ceiling, mortified that once again the entire table was weighing in on her love life. Could she not have any peace?
"Hmmm." Colin pretended to consider the point, but he was mostly trying to stop his lip from curling. He did not like Alfie Debling. What kind of stupid name was that anyway? What grown man went by “Alfie”? He sounded like someone’s pet dachshund. “Ooo Alfie come here for belly rubs”, “Don’t shit on the rug, Alfie”.
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Colin Bridgerton finds himself in the unenviable position of having offered to help Penelope Featherington cook a seduction dinner for her plant-loving paramour. It just happens to be the same dinner that was prepared for Colin before he lost his virginity, and it is bringing back regrets and all kinds of feelings for his best friend that he thought he had buried away for good.
Aka the NYT Pizza Interview we all wanted, featuring the Great Auk, Alfie x Alfie and the Contessa.Bookmarked by Medb_1
11 Jul 2026
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"She is alone. All alone. Loneliness almost tears her soul apart, and nothing can help that."
Penelope becomes depressed because she is unable to continue writing. She feels that she has lost all meaning in the world and is completely alone, which is not helped by the fact that her marriage is in ruins and her husband is isolating himself from her.
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10 Jul 2026
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Is it Over Now? by AnotherLily
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Jul 2026
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Five years have slipped by since Penelope last saw or spoke to Colin. Their once-close friendship unraveled after Penelope stumbled upon troubling messages between Colin and his friends. Feeling betrayed, she cut ties with him, and Colin, in turn, chose to leave England for good.
Fast forward to the present, and the winds of change are about to blow through their lives once more. Francesca Bridgerton is getting married, and as part of the wedding party, Penelope is bound to cross paths with Colin, who has returned to London for the occasion.
Amidst the enchanting backdrop of a wedding, they must navigate the complexities of their past. How will they handle their unexpected reunion, given that they’ve grown into different people and now seem like strangers? Is it possible for them to move past the lingering animosity and rediscover what once united them? This captivating story weaves a journey from friends to enemies and, perhaps, back to lovers.
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Penelope observed him before she commented honestly, “You’re a good man, Colin Bridgerton.”
Colin rolled his eyes and smiled wistfully, “That can be my downfall too, you know.”
“Oh, I know.”A short one-shot with glimpses into the relationship of Colin/Marina and Colin/Penelope. Modern.
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07 Jul 2026
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long suffering propriety (is what they want from me) by nojamhands for Fifi2930
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Aug 2025
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Anthony paused briefly and gave his brother a pointed look. “If this is a matter of wetting your wick—“
“Enough!” Colin leapt from his chair and moved toward his brother. “You insult me and my intended.” He straightened to his full height, now towering over Anthony sitting at his desk. “But if that is what you truly believe, that my being green and naïveté is what has led me to fall for Miss Thompson, then escort me to one of your bloody brothels and be done with it. If ‘wetting my wick’ as you so crassly put it, brother, is what it takes for you to believe me serious, I will—however begrudgingly—accompany you.”
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Colin goes to a brothel in Season 1 and makes several discoveries (about himself and others) that drastically alter the course of events
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04 Jul 2026