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Call It What You Want by livlikespolin
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Feb 2026
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After twenty years of shared secrets and whispers. Penelope and Colin are officially leaning into their "hag era" with a marriage of convenience. At thirty-eight and forty-three, they’ve traded the pressure of the marriage mart for a comfortable pact: she gets a travel partner to spice up her retired-Whistledown life, and he finally gets the constant companion he’s been chasing across four continents. It’s a perfectly sensible, purely practical arrangement... isn't it?
A mix of book and show Polin because I'm a sucker for them.
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The Heart Doesn't Forget by fictionfrek101
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Apr 2026
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In 1803, sixteen-year-old Benedict Bridgerton is spending the summer in Paris when the Napoleonic Wars are declared and he becomes a prisoner of war. The Bridgertons constantly worry about their missing brother, working to find a way to bring him home when suddenly the letters stop.
In 1807, eighteen-year-old Sophie Baek is illegally sold as a maid to a family in Verdun, when she meets Benjamin Sojourner, a mysterious and handsome young Englishman who lost his memory in an accident three years earlier.
In 1814, twenty-three-year-old Colin Bridgerton is touring France when Sophie Lefèvre, a happily married seamstress invites him home for dinner. Upon arriving to the Lefèvre residence, Colin is shocked to run into his long thought dead brother, Benedict, now happily married with four children and has no idea what the hell Colin is talking about when he calls him “Benedict” much less “brother.”
How Colin is going to explain this one to the family is anyone’s guess.
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Love, I’ve Had Enough! by DoKyungsoosWife
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
23 Apr 2026
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Penelope Featherington had been in love with Colin since the age of ten and six. But after humiliation and the realization that even if she may always be in love with him, she will never have him. Enter one Mr. Michael Stirling who is suffering from one unrequited love himself from a Bridgerton and needs a bride to keep his Earldom.
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The Course Of True Love (Never Did Run Smooth) by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
23 Mar 2026
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Margaret is still in Milton when Mr Hale dies and promptly goes missing. John finds her and the two shelter in from a storm end up making passionate love and Margaret finds herself pregnant…
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A Scandalous Act by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
20 Feb 2026
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AU-Post her father’s death Margaret Hale is left horrified when her Aunt presents her with little choice but to marry Henry Lennox who she most assuredly does not love nor even like. John Thronton presents in a moment of madness an alternative solution.
Or…Margaret and John elope. They must deal with the family fall out upon their return, to say nothing of the gossip and the fact that they both are secretly in love with each other, both are convinced the other doesn’t and…well…they’ve not so much as even kissed.
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The Thornton Tales: Smutty Stories by TheScribbler_CMB
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
14 Dec 2024
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A series of short stories exploring the intimate world of John and Margaret Thornton's marriage.
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Yes, Master by Polin_dreamscape
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Jul 2025
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Penelope cannot let her master wallow in the misery of his failing marriage. So she offers herself to make him feel better about himself.
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The Viscountess’ Duties by anticapitalistcowboy
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 May 2024
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After their honeymoon, Anthony elucidates Kate on some of the duties she is expected to fulfill.
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“You are too clothed, darling.”
Anthony cracks a smile as Kate shivers in his arms, viscerally responsive to Benedict’s honeyed words. He can smell the cloying sweetness of her arousal. Perhaps it is just an instinctive reaction, now, to what she knows will happen tonight.
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Spelling Mr. Bridgerton by Alexis_Polin
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Dec 2024
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Penelope Featherington has been wilting away on the marriage mart for six years. She has long given up her infatuation with the third Bridgerton brother, Colin. This season, she decides, will be different. Penelope has returned to the Ton with a new special set of skills that is guaranteed to ensnare a husband, potion-making. With all eyes directed away from her, Penelope plans to use a love-spell to enchant the wealthy Lord Debling. When, however, a certain set of eyes watch this plan unfold and intervene with Penelope's plans, she will have to confront her heart's true desire.
Colin Bridgerton has returned from another worldly tour away. This matured bachelor has all the experience he could ever dream. Now back, Colin feels lost and disconnected from the Ton. Even more so, when he finds his ever-loyal friend Penelope giving him the cold shoulder. Determined to win back her favor, he apprentices under her to learn spells. Still his Penelope is not the same as he remembered. She's alluring and confident. Will he be able to distinguish his friend Penelope from the woman she's become while under the effects of a love spell?
Or Penelope casts a love spell on Colin
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Wake Up Next To Me by RomanticWithHope
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Aug 2024
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Glimpses into the married life of Colin “my wife” Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington.
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A series of interconnected one shots filled with my head cannons about Colin and Pen to cure the utter brain rotting of my Polin obsession.
Pirate Colin Loading….
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It has been eight months since Penelope married Lord Debling and Colin left Mayfair, off to try and make himself forget everything he had felt for his dearest friend. Now, upon his return to London, things have changed, but their feelings for each other remain the same.
Love always manages to make itself known, and the barriers keeping them apart will soon crumble to the ground.
AU set where Colin does not interrupt Penelope's and Lord Debling's dance in s3e4
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After the events that took place during the Featherington ball, the Featheringtons decided to retire to the country early. Penelope decides to do her best to put aside everything that happened with two Bridgerton siblings and overhaul her life to find a new purpose. But with a new sense of loneliness, will Penelope be able to find this new purpose or will the Bridgertons find a way to pull her back under their spell?
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Penelope Featherington vowed that she would never fall in love with Colin Bridgerton ever again after overhearing him state loudly to his brothers that he would never marry her. But as the years go by and the letters pile up she finds herself allowing him back into her heart, unwittingly stealing his heart in the process.
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Is it possible to fall in love with someone over simple letters?
In the three years of his excursion, Penelope and her husband exchange letters about their respective lives.. . .
And, of course, as we depart London this season, we might finally get a glimpse of Lord and Lady Debling. It was a surprise that this most surprising pair chose to spend their honeymoon in London and not on the Earl's vast estate. The newlyweds have not left their house a single day since their wedding, nor have they entertained a single visitor, not even Lady Featherington or her daughters, who undoubtedly miss their daughter and sister.
Rumour has it that Lord Debling has delayed his much-anticipated three-year-long excursion by half a month to spend more time with his wife before he departs. Such dedication to marital bliss is indeed commendable, especially for a man so passionately devoted to his botanical pursuits.
One must wonder if, after such a prolonged time together, there will be an announcement of a new Debling heir in the coming months?Series
- Part 2 of The Lady Debling' Trilogy
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if it feels like a trap by commeunbateau
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Jun 2025
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WONT BE COMPLETED, SORRY!
"Dear reader
If it feels like a trap, you're already in one."Colin Bridgerton learns that actions have consequences.
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Multi-chapter canon divergence. In which Anthony loses both his parents young and seeks a marriage of convenience. 155K words of Anthony Bridgerton slowly learning how to love again. Updates Tuesdays and Saturdays.
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I Do Not Want to Stand By Your Side by magentaverse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Jun 2024
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Penelope Featherington fell in love with Colin Bridgerton for as long as she'd known him.
For so long, she told herself it would be enough if Colin Bridgerton just stood beside her.
She didn’t need a love declaration. She certainly didn’t need him to sign his life to her. She just needed his love. A few smiles and his willing ear.
But Colin Bridgerton did what he did best—he changed the course of her life the moment he muttered, "I do not want to stand by your side, Penelope Featherington."
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Feel like a brand new person (but you'll make the same old mistakes, stop before its too late) by bettysgard3n
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
24 Jun 2024
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What if Colin Bridgerton took a little too long to arrive at the Queen's ball and missed his chance to catch the newfound love of his life? What if, instead, he walked into a ballroom without Penelope, only to find her engaged to Lord Debling?