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There's something new to Penelope these days. Something in her eyes, maybe, or her skin. A clarity; clarity built by love and light and a life built with the man she has loved since childhood.
There is a visible clarity caused by endless pleasure, the pleasure of partnership and partnering... and frankly, yes, Penelope can see it reflected back at her when she takes herself in at the looking glass.
She can see it in the double takes as she and Colin enter balls now.
But she can see it most in the way Colin's eyes shine over every time she enters a room. The way he swallows, the way he grips his chest sometimes as if the feeling is attempting escape.
And when it is particularly shocking to him, when she has really pleased him, in the way her husband drops to his knees.
As he does in this moment."You... are..." he shakes his head in incredulity as she approaches.
Is it the red? They never get to wear red.
AKA: Colin and Pen get to wear red because they are hosting a Christmas party, which inexplicably turns them on.
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Don't Worry, I'll Make You Worry by somethingfunnybubbly for CVHsQuill
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Dec 2025
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It's the annual Bridgerton Christmas Party and Colin has two objectives; stay long enough to get his sisters off his back, and avoid Penelope Featherington at all costs. So when Penelope finds HIM, drunk as a skunk and determined to hash everything between them out, Colin wonders what he did in a past life to warrant this kind of torture. Because he's going to look after her, isn't he? Going to make sure she gets home safe. Going to make sure she has everything she needs even as his heart gets more mangled with every worthless beat. Of course he is. And he's going to be very dramatic about it the whole time, too.
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- Part 1 of Christmas 2025 ❤️
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22 Dec 2025
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Christmas party fic with mutual pining and obliviousness- flipped script- he fell first
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A Practical Romance by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Dec 2025
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Penelope is quiet for a long while after he nodded his head and confirmed he was inquiring about whether or not she has changed her mind about having a baby with him.
"I…" she starts before swallowing once. "Well, I suppose as the years have gone on… I have imagined it a time or two, yes."
Colin knows she is telling the truth, and for the first time in a long time, he is also able to read her and surmise there is more still she is holding back.
"Is that something you wish for?" he asks cautiously. "A babe? One of your own?"
Pen's big, pale blue eyes blink at him twice slowly before she starts nibbling on her lip in a decidedly nervous gesture. "That is… We did not… We married for other purposes. I do not expect—"
"I am not asking what you expect," he interrupts, keeping his tone gentle, though, so as not to scare her out of this spell of vulnerability he's found her in tonight. "I am asking simply what you desire for yourself. Do you want a baby, Pen?"
"Yes."
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Or, regency era Penelope and Colin have been in marriage of convenience for five years and decide to have a child together—platonically of course.
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
14 Dec 2025
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After having a 5 year marriage of convenience, Colin and Pen decide to try to have a baby.
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You Are Worthy, You Are Everything by audlovespolin for Chickcentra1
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Dec 2025
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Penelope Featherington was having a terrible night, no thanks to her mother Portia, and hit up her plug, Genevieve, so she could smoke and relax. She’d been due for a quiet night in, and was looking forward to it, but then her plug responded that she had ran out. Penelope groaned, accepting that this was how her night would be. Little did she know that things were just about to turn around for the better in ways she never could’ve imagined.
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11 Dec 2025
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Drug dealer Colin and anxious Pen get together
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1960s housewife loves being dominated by her psychiatrist.
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09 Dec 2025
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Psychologist Dom Colin and married patient Penelope Debling.
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Pen's not doing well on the apps. Colin offers to help. It goes well for her and he hates it. God, Colin just wants to be normal about Penelope. He's trying really hard to be normal about Penelope, just, SO normal. It is becoming increasingly clear that he simply cannot be normal about Penelope. It will take the power of the Bridgerton sibling group chat (and all its related splinter chats) to figure out what to do.
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Modern AU textfic, Colin is the most down bad idiot in the universe and Penelope is the funniest woman on earth.
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Now a fully illustrated version! Links in Chapter 10 :)Series
- Part 1 of Unhinged: Bridgerton textfic AU
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
07 Dec 2025
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The Unhinged text fic set around Christmas time where Colin sets up Pens Hinge profile and hooks her up w/Debbers
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Folks Stealing a Kiss or Two by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Dec 2024
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The one where the mistletoe helps Colin “get some vision, bro.”
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
05 Dec 2025
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Christmas mistletoe one-shot ‘Get some vision bro’
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she walked in the club like nobody's business by LillyWhitefield
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Nov 2025
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“Having a nice time, even after you were so reluctant to join us?” Fife asked, not even glancing Colin’s way.
“Well enough,” Colin said, and he meant it. There was something enjoyable about watching one’s friends fawn over women well out of their league. And the dancing was quite entertaining for his own benefit, too.
“You might like this next act,” Fife said with a knowing, mischievous grin. “I’ve seen her before. She’s quite something.”
“This is a high-quality sort of place,” Colin retorted, trying not to roll his eyes. “They’re all quite something.”
The first upbeat notes of “Maneater” by Nelly Furtado began to play over the speakers. “Just watch,” Fife directed, his smile widening.
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When Colin goes out for a stag night at a strip club, the last person he ever expects is up on the stage.
He's angry.
And turned on.
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
04 Dec 2025
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Secret Stripper Pen immediately commands Colin to stand at attention during a stag night.
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Drop Everything Now by A_quill_in_the_night
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 May 2025
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When Penelope gets a text from Marina meant for someone else, saying Colin’s been in an accident in Italy and she’s not going to “deal with it,” Penelope doesn’t hesitate.
One flight. One suitcase. One man she’s never stopped loving.
She drops everything…and runs to him.
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
04 Dec 2025
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Influencer Colin is in a terrible motorcycle wreck and pen goes to Italy to nurse him back to health. Marina schemes to get Colin.
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“Pen, how about I have sex with you?”
“Colin, will you have sex with me?”
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Penelope, a single 29-year-old workaholic, decides to finally lose her virginity once and for all. A solution comes in the form of her childhood friend and unrequited love. Colin offers to take Pen's virginity; no strings attached, just looking out for a friend. Since Pen has already resigned to the fact Colin would never love her, this arrangement was perfect to help her be confident enough to find another relationship (or a few). So she goes along with it. And Colin, well, is just happy being a good friend.That's what friends are for right?
However, one of them is going to learn the hard way why sleeping with a friend is never a clean break.
[Modern, FWB AU]
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
03 Dec 2025
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Unfinished but hot scenes- Colin takes Pen’s virginity “as a friend” and comes unglued.
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When Penelope decides it’s time to conquer her fear of public speaking, Colin is desperate to help in ANY way.
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“Nice to see you too, Eloise,” he says. “Where’s Pen?”
“She’s here, but we can’t stay. I’m taking over the role of confidence booster. She doesn’t need any more of your bright ideas. She just needs–”
“Eloise!” Penelope attempts to silence her but it is no use.
“–a good fuck! Happy orgasm hormones before rehearsals and the performance. Now bugger off so I can set up her Tinder profile.”
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01 Dec 2025
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Pen is trying to find her voice through acting and Colin offers to help with Happy Hormones - or the one where phone sex gets real…
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Of all the things that could have driven Colin to madness, he would have never guessed it would be Penelope’s mouth.
It all began as she sat in his passenger seat, slowly lining her lips with lip liner, carefully tracing the edges with delicate precision. After, she filled them in with lip oil, the light floral scent wafting over to him. As she pressed her lips together, pulling them in and pushing them back out, Colin realized one undeniable fact.
His best friend had the most perfect mouth he had ever seen.
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Colin realizes he has a lipstick fetish.
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Man of Honor by Mariequitecontrarie
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Dec 2024
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It's Christmas Eve, and Colin is Penelope's man of honor in her upcoming wedding. She wants his opinion on cakes, but he wants to send the groom on a permanent research trip to Antarctica and marry her himself. Which might be difficult to do if he gets them both thrown in jail for the holiday.
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They’d fallen asleep on the couch together, “A Wonderful Life” on the telly, the reflection from the Christmas lights glistening like stars on her porcelain skin. Typically, he sleeps like the dead, but she woke him during the night and led him into the bedroom like a child. Then they crawled into bed together and went back to sleep. Like any happily married couple would.
Only they’re not married. They’re not engaged. They’re not even together.
They’ve never kissed on the lips or gone on a date.
And they never will.
In six weeks—on Valentine’s Day—Penelope is marrying her boyfriend, Fred Debling.
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
26 Nov 2025
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Christmas time; Colin is Pen’s ‘Man of Honor’ for her wedding with Debling and they are cake tasting
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Stages of Ascent by StrawberryWhorecake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Nov 2025
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Penelope’s world revolves around her daughter, Jane, a bright and curious child on the autism spectrum whose life thrives on stability and routine. After years of heartbreak, Penelope has built a calm, steady rhythm for them both. One that doesn’t have room for the man who once shattered her trust.
Colin Bridgerton comes home sober, but sobriety doesn’t erase the wreckage he left behind. He’s haunted by the years he lost and by Penelope, the woman he loved through them all.
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
24 Nov 2025
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Single mom Pen to autistic Jane - addict Colin trying to reclaim his life.
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Yo Ho Ho, Off to Sea We Go! by LadyTicklebotham for Nana Banana Art on twitter
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Nov 2023
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Penelope Featherington has been kidnapped by the last person she would ever expect and taken to the last place she'd ever dream of.
A.K.A: What would happen if Colin found out about LW and all those trips to the continent were just cover for Colin pirating it up?
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Bookmarked by RusticGeologist
21 Nov 2025
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Privateer Captain Colin Christopher Bridgerton kidnaps Pen and keeps her in his cabin.
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His Past, Present, and Future by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Nov 2025
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Penelope is trying desperately to conceive a baby with her husband Colin Bridgerton. Too bad he's away on business this month while she's in the midst of her fertile window.
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Or, the fic where three different versions of Colin magically appear to help impregnate their beloved Pen.
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18 Nov 2025
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Colin fucks Pen with everything he was, everything he is, and everything he will be … or the one where Pen has a ménage a trois with Young Gun Colin and Silver Fox Colin.
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Like Real People Do by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Mar 2024
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Penelope has lied to her family about Colin being her boyfriend and now they have to attend her sister's wedding together. Portia is skeptical, which makes the fake couple determined to convince her they're actually together, and the friends become swept up in the fantasy causing them to realize their true feelings for each other.
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Colin Bridgerton is utterly fucked.
Without a doubt. Entirely. Biblically. Fucked in ways that he is unsure any other man has been fucked, actually.
And as he paces the tiny cabin he has been stuffed into, considering his inevitable and untimely fuckery, all he can think is how vexing it is that his eldest brother Anthony was right.
His brother’s words ring in his ear like some sort of satanic prayer, torturous and bitter: “You are no pirate, Colin. You are nothing more than a child playing dress-up. Mark my words: you’ll be dead in a month.”
OR - Colin Bridgerton gets captured by the Pirate Featherington
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Penelope needs to prove that pineapple cannot truly change one’s taste. And Colin, well, he just wants to help a friend conduct an experiment.
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Lost My Senses, I'm Defenseless by audlovespolin, kybridge26 for WrensSymphony
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
31 Jul 2025
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Fresh off yet another break-up caused by her close friendship with Colin, Penelope has no time to mope before she's off to celebrate Fran and Mich's hen party with the entire Bridgerton clan. None of them have a clue what the brides have in store for the evening, but forever single Colin and newly single Pen are certainly not expecting to be paired up for lap dancing lessons.
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09 Nov 2025
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Fran & Michaela hen-do secret lap dancing class with Pen & Demi-sexual Colin as partners.