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It's A Look I Used To Know by somethingfunnybubbly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Dec 2024
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Penelope Featherington has just landed the job of her dreams with the someone who she thought she'd only see in her embarrassing nightmares. Ten years after Colin Bridgerton breaks Penelope's teenage heart, they are forced to travel and work together.
Penelope, other than being slightly mortified over her past actions, is determined to move on. No longer an insecure wallflower, she has no time for people who don't see her worth anymore.
For Colin, what starts as a sweet gig with an old friend is becoming more and more confusing. Since when was anyone immune to his charms? Least of all Pen? And why does it bother him so much that she is?
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14 Oct 2025
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Colin and Penelope finally start a relationship after years of being friends, but decide to keep it under wraps at first as to not pull focus from Eloise's wedding.
Colin's travel begins to take a toll on Penelope, and she finds solace in her budding friendship with the youngest Bridgerton brother, Gregory. As she fears getting fired from her job, she finds herself needing Colin more than he can provide.
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Penelope slunk out of bed and crawled into the shower, trying not to think about the night before while she scrubbed every inch of her body. Her hair was tied in a silk scrunchie at the top of her head since she knew she wouldn’t have time to dry it. She tiptoed around her room, gathering clothes and shoes for work, and snuck out into the living room to put them on.
Once dressed, she desperately watched the coffee trickling out of the machine, dripping so slowly it almost seemed that time had stopped altogether. She needed to think straight to figure out what the fuck she was supposed to do next.
“I hope you’re making two cups,” Colin’s voice came from behind her.
She spun around to find him standing against the doorframe of her bedroom in only his black boxer-briefs.
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12 Oct 2025
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Penelope is a 25-year-old book editor in London, enjoying a life where she shares a flat with her best friend, gets promoted quickly at work, and spends her time with her friends and pseudo-family, the Bridgertons. She has all the makings of a happy life.
She's spent years adjusting to the ache in her gut. She's always expected to live with it, to grow around it, and to maybe find some semblance of happiness knowing she would never soothe the pain that consumed her. She tries to put herself out there, to move on, to accept reality. No matter how hard she tries to fall out of love with him, Colin always finds ways to worm his way back into her heart, putting her right back where she started.
Will she be able to move on? Will she figure out how to live with the pain? Or will the last thing on earth she ever expected to happen finally become real? Could Colin Bridgerton ever love Penelope Featherington?
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12 Oct 2025
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“Coooliiiiinnnnn,” she giggles. “I am in your head, Colin. You will do whatever I say,” more giggles, “now, buy me some of that candyfloss.”
He’s so glad he insisted that Penelope be his woman in the van for this surveillance operation because these little giggles right in his ear are the greatest sounds he’s ever heard.
“We’re professionals, Pen,” he says but is clearly giggling too. “And of course I will do whatever you say, but you know you don’t need to be in my head for that.”
“Hhhmmmmmmm, interesting,” she says in a low sultry voice.
OK, that was the greatest sound he’s ever heard. Fuck, that was sexy!
Colin, stop it!... this is not the time or the place for your insane thoughts. She... is... not… interested… in… you! She’s going on a date with Debling TONIGHT! Now get your bloody head in the game. We've got a drug lord to catch.
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04 Oct 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
20 Aug 2025
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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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02 Oct 2025