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   Perplexingly Dismayed by LadyTicklebotham

   Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Aug 2025

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   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Eloise Bridgerton & Penelope Featherington
   • Colin Bridgerton & Eloise Bridgerton
   • Penelope Featherington/Original Character(s)
   • Colin Bridgerton
   • Penelope Featherington
   • Eloise Bridgerton
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Violet Bridgerton
   • Lady Danbury (Bridgerton Series)
   • Anthony and Kate - Character
   • Hy and Fran
   • Mostly Canon Compliant
   • Colin Bridgerton Being an Idiot
   • Bridgertons Being Bridgertons
   • Confused Colin Bridgerton
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington-centric
   • Jealous Colin Bridgerton
   • Eventual Smut
   • Slow-ish burn
   • colin sticks his foot in his mouth on the reg
   • BFFs
   • Somewhat Historically Accurate
   • all the feels
   • Pining
   • couldn't think of a better title
   • probably historically inaccurate all I know about Regency I learned from Austen and Google
   • Not Beta Read
   • let's be honest this is a becoming sloooooooow burn
   • Hot nerd
   • precocious children
   • delicious tension
   • scandalous activities in libraries
   • confused hypocritical behavior
   • thinking you can read someone's mind when you absolutely can't
   • Parallels
   • Heroic Rescues
   • attractive people caught in the rain
   • cute kitten
   • heated moments on stairs
   • shooting contest by Eloise
   • shameless inclusion of Marcus and Hugh because author loves the SS heroes
   • colin bridgerton would like you to keep your hands to yourself tyvm
   • misunderstandings and misinterpretations
   • oh look! it's Murray!
   • colin and nash pointing at each other like that spiderman meme

   Summary

   Colin Bridgerton returns to Britain and is surprised to find that a certain Miss has struck a friendship with an eligible bachelor that is not himself. When he finds that the friendship might lead to courtship, he is perplexingly dismayed and accidentally interferes every chance he gets.

   Penelope Featherington is actually looking forward to the London Season, even if she is basically a spinster. Last year she and Eloise became quick friends with Lady Lindsey, and she somehow found herself in correspondence with the Lady's younger brother, the handsome and scholarly Marquess of Stafford. And for the first time in forever, Penelope is able to push thoughts of the always absent Colin Bridgerton from her mind.

   (Note: This is fic began well before season two, so it does not incorporate those events. Peneloise forever!)

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   Chapters:

   30/?

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