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A Cat's Guide to Scratches, Scandals and Marriage by FeedingDucks
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Jun 2026
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"What do you mean a cat got you married?"
Ten years ago, Colin Bridgerton discovered Penelope Featherington's secret identity and lost a fiancée (or two) to her pen. He has not spoken to her since... until her wedding morning, when he marches into her drawing room to relitigate a decade of grievances, cravat regrettably still tied.
Enters Beanie — full name Lady Imogene Bean Blackmoor Featherington-Whiskerstone — who takes one look at the furious Bridgerton and decides he must be removed. Several scratches, one ruined cravat, one compromised petticoat, and an extremely badly timed Archbishop later, Colin must marry the woman he has grown to despise.
And the cat, by mutual agreement (not really), the dowry.
And while the couple has absolutely no plans of falling in love, Lady Imogene Bean Blackmoor Featherington-Whiskerstone remains paw-sitively convinced it's only a matter of time. She has, after all, impeccable instincts for scratches, scandals, and happurrly-ever-after.
- a cottage romance fic literally no one asked for
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02 Aug 2026
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Colin returns from a trip abroad and immediately loses all control. But consequences have a way of rippling out and the more he tries to hide the infraction, well, some truths insist on being known.
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03 May 2026
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The Merits of an Arranged Arrogant Assumption by Somethingaboutaredsweater
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
20 Jul 2026
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It's been 10 years since Penelope and Colin last saw each other. Penelope Featherington is officially settled into spinsterhood and the talk is that the third born Bridgerton’s misadventures have changed him and he is no longer a charming gentleman but a stoic man with scars and a far away expression. The Bridgertons, for Colin’s wellbeing and to settle their name back into polite society- arrange a marriage for him. They choose Featherington's youngest and unmarried daughter- Penelope Featherington, but she is no longer the wall flower girl Colin once knew.
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26 Apr 2026
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Wildest Fantasies Do Not Compare by NeedingAnOutlet
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2026
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“I want a chance to earn my friend back.” He took a cautious step into the room. “I am whole-heartedly sorry for what I said! It was stupid and careless, and I wish I could undo it. Please let me make it up to you, to get us back to the confidence we shared before that thoughtless mistake?”
Her eyes hardened. “There is no going back, Colin.” She folded her arms across her chest. “I never asked you to court me-”
“I know, I-”
“I have not finished!”
Colin gaped at her. Pen could be sharp in her witticisms, and he now knew she could be vindictive and cold when wounded. But he’d never seen her speak with such self-possession before. He bowed his head apologetically and gestured for her to continue.
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An alternative S3 based on the synopsis. Aimed to have it completed before S3 was released but took too long. It was fully plotted but only half-written when the show was released, so occasional influence from the show has crept in but I try to minimise this. Probably now a bit of 'fix fic' (sort of) for those who wanted it to take longer to rebuild their relationship, more Colin perspective, a different placing of the Whistledown reveal, and some Colin and Pen against the world! :-)
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16 Mar 2026
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After receiving nothing but cold receptions from Penelope during the new social season, Colin is led to Lady Danbury’s library where he finds Pen drunk and distraught. She asks him one confounding question he had never given much thought.
Or, what happens when a drunk Pen admits her feelings to an oblivious Colin?
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25 Jan 2026
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As they separated and bowed, Penelope’s heart was wildly trilling, her chest heaving as she fought the sudden breathlessness that had nothing to do with physical exertion, and everything to do with the anxiety over what was to come. She caught Colin’s gaze when she turned away from Mr Lennix, a small, victorious smile playing on her lips when she saw his hand flex at his side.
She paused and subtly curtsied, drawing their little game to a close with the single move. She’d achieved her goal; she’d been seen. Colin’s response was a simple tick of his jaw, his eyes narrowing at her.
A renewed challenge.
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Penelope is tired of waiting for life to happen to her. As a twenty three year old Spinster set on moving to the Country next year, she decides to take matters into her own hands and seduce Colin. He is her last shot of knowing any form of intimacy, even if she knows he will never marry her. Aubrey Hall has witnessed many things, but has it seen a Gently-bred women try her hand at the art of seduction? 😏
Spoiler: Now it has 🥴
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19 Sep 2025
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It Does Not Signify by Mariequitecontrarie for alcft
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Oct 2025
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Colin can’t help but catch Anthony’s dismissive words: “They’ve danced a couple of times together at a ball. Colin has done the same with Penelope Featherington. It does not signify.”
He does not care at all for the way those words make him feel.
A Season 1 “what if” AU.
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15 Sep 2025
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After the disastrous ball at Featherington House during which Penelope loses her friendship with Eloise and Colin in one night, Penelope realizes she has no one. In a moment of desperation brought on by loneliness, she writes a letter to someone she thought she would never correspond with again.
Months later, when Colin discovers Penelope is Lady Whistledown, a tear runs down his cheek as he confronts his fiancée in the street. Colin’s pain is something Penelope cannot abide, and she vows to never again be the cause of it. There is only one place she can think to go.
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13 Sep 2025
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Every London season begins with the traditional mating run in the royal maze, where anyone eligible may participate.
This year, Penelope is dismayed she cannot afford to enter, while her best friend Eloise is being forced to. Eloise does not wish to be caught and forced to marry some dimwitted Alpha, and so she begins to devise a plan of escape...
Meanwhile, Colin is back from his travels, having avoided the run since his failed engagement. He insists he’s only here to support his sister. But as the sun sets, can he truly resist the perfect scent and the pull of the full moon...?
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12 Sep 2025
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Where Our Shadows Come to the Shore by gildedruin, Sea_Dragonfly for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Feb 2026
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When Penelope Featherington is dragged from her bed in the middle of the night, she’s told that her nom-de-plume has been uncovered. Not by the Queen as she’d feared, but by the men who murdered her father. There are debts to be paid far beyond her Whistledown earnings. Fortunately for Penelope, a mysterious figure from her past is set on protecting her at all costs.
A regency bodyguard AU.
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30 Aug 2025
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it's been almost a year since penelope last saw colin, so he's the last person she expects to walk down the stairs of the villa.
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a polin love island au
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28 Aug 2025
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A Ribbon, A Forfeit by FernEdits95
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Aug 2025
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At Lady Danbury’s annual soiree for the unmarried bachelors and debutantes of the ton, Penelope has one goal in mind: avoid Colin Bridgerton. She has had enough heartbreak and humiliation at his hand and she is sick of pretending she can handle it with a smile.
However, a ribbon and a forfeit might be all it takes to unravel even the best laid plans.- Language:
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26 Aug 2025
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a sword needs a sheath, and a wedding needs a bedding by Chinesepapercut
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 Aug 2025
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“Not to worry, my dear,” Varley said, patting Penelope’s hand gently. “This world is a cruel place, specifically for women, but you have people in your court who will protect you. That’s more than most have.”
Penelope gave Varley a wan smile. She appreciated the sentiment, but was it too much to ask for protection and love?
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When Colin and Pen are forced to marry because of a misunderstanding, each find a reason to feel guilty. Penelope hates the idea that Colin will be forced to marry her out of duty rather than love, while Colin has just learned that the validity of their marriage will hinge on a barbaric centuries old wedding night tradition that Pen has no idea is coming.- Language:
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24 Aug 2025
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cards on the table (mine play out like fools in a fable) by uneventfulhouses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Apr 2025
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It struck him as odd that he didn’t hear from her, not even once, the entire time he had been away; he had written to her, letter after letter, all that he had seen while he was away like he had done on his first tour, but every letter had gone unanswered.
Part of him could have given up, but there was a feeling in him that he should not. So, he continued writing. He told her everything he could, and asked after her health, her wellbeing, her happiness. He wrote promises that if he had done something wrong, he could work to rectify it. It would not do to have a rift in their friendship. It was much too important to him.
In the back of this carriage, he wonders about his friend, with her curling red hair and her rosy cheeks. He hopes that she is well.
He hopes—
Well, he isn’t sure what he hopes. Something must have occupied her time for the off-season, had taken away from her quills and her paper, had taken her away from him.
An odd thought, he thinks. She isn’t his, to begin with. She is his friend. And still, there is something so bothersome about not hearing from her. It was common to feel unsettled about not hearing from one’s friend, of that, he is sure.
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21 Aug 2025
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Colin Bridgerton agrees to give his sister Eloise fencing lessons - if she can find a suitable opponent.
He is shocked when Penelope Featherington agrees to join her.
He is even more shocked by the effect she has on him...
And the chaos these lessons create!- Language:
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19 Aug 2025
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terms of surrender by brainrotbbygirl
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Jun 2026
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“You earnestly believe you can trick me into loving you in three months? Mr. Bridgerton, this shall be the easiest-won wager any woman has ever known.”
Colin chuckles. “I believe,” he says, “I can do it in one. The latter two shall be enjoyed as our honeymoon.”
Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton haven’t properly seen each other in years.
Now, they find themselves maneuvered into an arranged marriage neither of them wants.
Penelope, sharp-tongued and self-possessed, has no intention of being anyone’s consolation prize. Colin, newly returned from the continent and having already insulted his bride, did not comprehend quite the little spitfire he'd been given.
And so, a wager is struck: Three months to earn her regard, or surrender the match.
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15 Aug 2025
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A Dance in the Orangery by judgemyvow
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Feb 2026
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Penelope had been certain — certain! — that Colin would one day return her affections.
When his head is turned instead by her cousin Marina, Penelope must admit she was wrong.
After no small amount of crying, Penelope decides she will move on. That she will find a husband. That she will be kissed.
One question lingers in the back of her mind — why on earth does Colin look so stricken to find her doing just that?
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11 Jul 2025
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A Scandalous Engagement by wildechilde17
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Jul 2025
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In a regency society where debutantes must be Demonstrated, publicly, intimately, and without shame, Penelope Featherington was prepared to retire from society quietly. No husband, no fuss, no future.
Then came Colin Bridgerton.
Now engaged, very suddenly, and very publicly, the pair must navigate the treacherous waters of London high society, Bridgerton family chaos, and their own inconveniently escalating desire to do scandalous things that might force a special license.
Colin is many things: cheerful, charming, and endlessly obliging, but not nearly as shallow as he appears. Beneath the breezy wit and careless smile is a man who desperately wants to be good, for others, for Penelope, for himself. He doesn't mean to be rakish. He only wants to be enough. But every time he looks at Penelope, he finds a new reason to ruin her. Behind a curtain. On a chaise. Maybe during tea with Lady Danbury.
Unfortunately, his entire family is determined to prevent any impropriety until the wedding.
Colin Bridgerton has never followed rules, and he’s never met a curve or confession from Penelope he didn’t want to ruin himself on.
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- Part 2 of The Exhibition Papers
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07 Jul 2025
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Spinsters do not need chaperones by ancoraimparo_youknowwho for Lilyofthevolume
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Sep 2025
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In the year 1822, Mister Colin Bridgerton makes a grand return to England after almost 7 years of self imposed exile and reconnects with his estranged friend, Penelope. Will he be able to break the walls she keeps building between them and mend the bridges she is intent on destroying?
“What’s stopping you from living your life then, Pen? You’re living alone, aren’t you? No mother watching over your shoulder. No husband dictating your choices…”
“I mean, I can live alone, yes, but I’m still tethered. To reputation. To expectations. To the knowledge that no matter how independently I breathe, I will always be the subject of whispered pity or amusement. A woman alone is never just alone—she is sad, or defiant, or pitiful… never simply herself.”
“Come with me. For a month or two. See the world outside Mayfair parlours and boring soirees. You said you wanted to feel free. Let this be that.”
“But how? Where would we stay? What would people say, Colin? I’m not naïve—I know how this would look. Who would even accompany me as a chaperone?”
“Spinsters do not need chaperones, Pen. You said it yourself once.”
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03 Jun 2025
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Penelope knew that she was never meant to be loved. Between her overbearing mother, her cruel sisters, and the rejection of her closest friend, she knew that any happiness she experienced is fleeting. When Colin accuses her of entrapment, she decides to stop holding onto fantasies and show the world who she really is, one way or another.
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02 May 2025