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Before the fights and the couples’ therapy and the slow, inevitable drift. Before the night he came home from work to find Marina on the sofa, pale and drawn, already knowing every word that was about to come out of her mouth (because the words were already on his tongue, weren’t they?). Before the thousands spent on divorce lawyers and moving into the sad flat Anthony found for him and having to tell the fucking kids (worst bit – Oliver had gotten so quiet and Amanda had cried silently; wouldn’t let either of them touch her).
He could have gotten out of it. Ben had called him and said we can find someone else in a way that made it very clear they probably couldn’t, and Colin being Colin (reliable; helpful – a dope, maybe), had said no, no, I’ll do it.
Which is how he ends up in Bari, parked in a service station in a cramped hire car; forty-five; divorced; and about to embark on a two-week trip across Italy he had booked in an attempt to save his marriage. Without, you know, his wife.
.OR: post-divorce, Colin Bridgerton takes his friend Penelope on a road trip to Italy
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08 Sep 2025
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Terms of Surrender by bridgertonscorpio
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Aug 2025
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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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how to be a "burden" by itsokayitsfine
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Jul 2025
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Pen teaches Colin how to care for her when she’s struggling. Colin teaches Pen that it’s okay to ask for help.
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02 Aug 2025
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Sight, hear, touch, smell, taste…Agnes Grey and Edward Weston come together. Bookverse, BBC radio drama-verse.
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08 Jul 2025
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A Day for the Birds by RomancingTon for abvj
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jul 2025
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Penelope asks her boyfriend, Alfred Debling, to meet her friend, Colin, in the park to partake in Alfie’s favorite hobby: birdwatching. He acquiesces, determined to still engage in his favorite pastime despite Colin’s status as an amateur.
Penelope also asks her best friend, Colin, to meet her new friend, Alfie, in the park to partake in Colin’s new hobby. Despite being upset upon learning Pen won’t be coming, Colin agrees to meet Alfie, determined to get to know Penelope’s new friend.
One would assume, after an afternoon full of puns, plumage, and plenty of revelations, that the two men would be birds of a feather.
Right?
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03 Jul 2025
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shut up, I love you by itsokayitsfine
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Jun 2025
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Sometimes, when a man is pissing you off with his relentless ranting, the only course of action is to confess your undying love. This is loosely inspired by the modiste scene, which somehow still hits so fucking hard an entire year (!) later.
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13 Jun 2025
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Bookmarking as I've run out of eyelids to tattoo... Sigh...
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The Immaculate Room by everlarktoast
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, The Immaculate Room
09 Jun 2025
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Two strangers. One room. Fifty days. No stimuli. £5 million.
A desperate Penelope enters a study to win £5 million. All she has to do is stay in a stark-white, nearly empty room for fifty days with another person. No technology, no books, no games, no anything. Nothing but a bed, a bathroom, and a person she’s never met for almost two months.
It seems easy enough, until she steps out of the elevator and sees that her partner is anything but a stranger, and this study is anything but ordinary.
Written for Polin Week 2025 Day Two: Forced Proximity.
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16 May 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
I may be entitled to compensation for reading this fic, waiting for the writer to share the 1800-number for me to contact.
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hope is a heartache by lilacsandpoppys
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Apr 2025
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"Penelope is not in love anymore.
No, she has been working too hard over the last eight months to rid herself of the chaos that is Colin Bridgerton to end up right where she started all of those years ago. Penelope reflects on her self-help journey with a small sense of pride - she had read books on boundaries, listened to podcasts about toxic relationships, gone to therapy, and even attended yoga classes.
Well, two yoga classes.
Even still, she is The New Penelope Featherington, and The New Penelope Featherington is not in love with Colin Bridgerton.
At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself."
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Penelope finds herself back in Colin's orbit when he returns to London after his travels, and despite her best efforts, she is, in fact, still desperately in love.
Based on the song "Hope Is A Heartache" by Lèon.
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10 Apr 2025
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Unfortunately, We're Stuck With Each Other... In a Time Loop by bread_the_undead
Fandoms: Original Work
30 Mar 2025
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Luna Amato had a problem. She adored her job has a sci-fi fantasy book editor, but it did get tiresome when a very famous, very paranoid author was demanding ridiculous lengths to keep his precious manuscript safe and sound for 'prying' eyes. Some how she was the only one he would trust to come get it, and it had to be picked up in person. Now through a whole mess of convoluted nonsense, she needed someone to drive her all the way down to San Diego from Seattle. Her career depended on it and she really didn't want to spend four days in a car with a total stranger.
Gregor Baxter had been desperately in love with Luna for over a year. She didn't know, in fact she barely knew he existed, but that was his own damn fault. Stringing together any kind of sentence around her was impossible and he was just an IT guy. What did a beautiful career woman want with him? Except she might need him for something, a business trip that would give him four whole days with her. Maybe he could figure out how to talk to her in that amount of time.
TLDR: Will this man muster up the courage to talk to his long time crush? The answer is no, he fails miserably and a chaotic god (me) shoves them into a time loop to fix it.
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- Part 2 of Luna and Gregor Fics
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The Calm In His Arms by Bridgertonia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Mar 2025
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Penelope Featherington is trapped in Iceland when a volcanic eruption closes the airport.
There's one way home, by ferry, from the other side of the island. But the only way she can get there in time is by catching a lift with Colin Bridgerton - the first man she fell in love with; the only man to break her heart. And someone she has avoided for the last ten years.
OR: A road trip during which Penelope discovers she hates vanlife, but her feelings about Colin are far more troublesome.
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- Part 1 of Iceland Road Trip AU
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30 Mar 2025
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Basic Premise: What If Imprint But Everybody Hated It.
Gregor Johnson just wanted a normal life but could never seem to get one. The harder he tried the more he seemed to alienate himself. Now his shitty family's magic was cropping up to ruin what small existence he did have.
Luna Amato just wanted an excuse to go home after a long week. Why had she agreed to meet her friends at this run down bar again? Now some weirdo won't stop staring at her.
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- Part 1 of Luna and Gregor Fics
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05 Mar 2025
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Destination Unknown by Fifi2930 for damdam2930
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 May 2025
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Two perfect strangers meet on a long train ride from Aberdeen to Penzance.
They know nothing about one another.
But they're about to learn everything.Series
- Part 3 of Travellers in Love
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25 Jan 2025
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In His Wildest Dreams by RomancingTon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 Jun 2025
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It's week before the wedding of Eloise Bridgerton and Phillip Crane. Guests flock to Number 5 for a wedding shower full of love, greenery, and champagne.
It is here where best man Colin Bridgerton makes a stupid declaration: that never, in his wildest dreams, would he ever be anything more than friends with his best friend and the maid of honor, Penelope Featherington.
What he doesn’t know, though, is that she hears this firm proclamation.
That, now, he must navigate an uncomfortable new chapter of their friendship before their friends’ nuptials.
That his statement may not accurately capture his true feelings for his best friend.
And that his dreams can get pretty wild. Fantastical, even.
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18 Jan 2025
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Circling back to you by hopeandahalf
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Jan 2025
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“Hi,” she says, composed and bright and far more normal than Colin can wrap his mind around right now.
Has a syllable ever sounded so sweet before? So lush and melodious and perfect?
“I’m Penelope Featherington,” she continues, unaware that Colin is fighting the very real physical urge to fall to his knees before her in supplication. “Daphne said you’d be expecting me.”
Expec…expecting? This is so far removed from what he had been expecting, it’s almost laughable. He had been expecting some nondescript, pant-suited corporate drone like the rest of them, not…not this…
Not her.
Or: Reluctant CEO Colin Bridgerton has beef with HR. Until they send him Penelope Featherington, and he loses his fucking mind.
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17 Jan 2025
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I Scream at You in Poetry by indiaalphawhiskey
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Jan 2025
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Colin maintained that his recent bout of lunacy was, in its entirety, all Penelope Featherington’s fault. For, had she not been so very resolute in her refusal to speak to him after an off-season's worth of unanswered letters, it was wholly possible that – after having overheard his mother lamenting both the state of the Featherington baronry and the effects of Lady Featherington’s now rather indiscreet baby race on Penelope’s chances at a felicitous (if practical) match – Colin would have acted far more rationally than to orchestrate a not-so-clandestine, not-so-very-appropriate, and also not-at-all-truthful midnight tryst between them in the orangery at Vauxhall Gardens.
(Maybe.)
After all, if it was simply time Penelope needed to work her way towards forgiving him and restoring their once warm friendship, as his mother had suggested… Well, then a lifetime together would certainly suit that, with change to spare, wouldn’t it?
— or, Penelope is a storm Colin is determined to weather. A different take on the entrapment of it all.
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11 Jan 2025
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Wrong Number by Ishipthis, TheShayBensons
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Jan 2025
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Tis the season for an advent text fic! Join us for twenty-four days of fun!
Penelope gets a breakup text from an unknown number, (spoiler alert, it's Colin) and absolute chaos ensues.
Please note: Word count is low due to the story being told in screenshots of texts
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- Part 1 of Wrong Number - The freaking Series
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24 Dec 2024
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"It’s been so long that I don’t even know how to start… It would be different if I could talk to her face to face, but I can’t just catch a plane and knock on her door. Besides, she must be different now, you’ve seen how confident and gorgeous she looked. She’s famous, she has a boyfriend… I’m just the guy who betrayed her trust.”
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Five years after Colin and Penelope had a falling out, she's back in London for work. Their lives have changed drastically during that time, but Colin is determined to get her back as the dear friend she once was or, ideally, -now that he's finally realised the extent of his feelings for her- something more.
So much more.
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- 6/6
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12 Nov 2024
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'Tis the season by osheffields
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Dec 2021
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Eloise is blindsided by her best friend and her brother getting engaged. And she has some...feelings about it. That she unloads onto the stranger sitting next to her on the train as she's headed to Kent for her family's christmas celebration.
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- Part 2 of Bridgerton Meet-Cutes
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28 Sep 2024
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City Lights by LazyTuesdayMorning
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Dec 2023
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Sometimes she wonders what people would say if they knew that Penelope Featherington was Colin Bridgerton's booty call. Felicity would probably spin it into some grand adventure, casting Penelope as the lonely figure stood on some moonlight shore as she waited for her lover to return. Eloise would undoubtedly be violently sick and then call her an idiot... and Penelope, well Penelope could hardly believe it herself.
It has to stop though.
It has to.
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15 Sep 2024
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After a heated argument leaves their friendship in tatters, Penelope and Colin wake to find the entirety of London abandoned. What follows is a journey of survival and self-discovery, each of them forced to confront their greatest fears, insecurities and grief in order to find their way back to each other and discover all the beauty this new world has to offer.
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- 14/14
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14 Sep 2024