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Tonight, a "good time" is being played by one Kate Beckett and as she tugs his hand and drags him to the back of the club, towards the couches, it occurs to Castle that this is going to be hard. Too hard.
Bad word choice.
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18 Oct 2025
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We Found Wonderland by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
27 Apr 2025
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Penelope Featherington is on holiday celebrating her birthday with one of her best friends in literal paradise. All of these things should add up to her spending the week with a beaming smile plastered on her face and having the absolute time of her life. Instead, though, she starts off the trip fixated on the milestone-nature of this particular birthday and one life milestone that she wishes she’d already checked off by this point. Quietly resigned to ringing in her birthday in a few days’ time without making any further progress, Penelope is entirely unprepared for a very helpful offer from her best friend who just also happens to be the person she’d spent years previously hopelessly crushing on.
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Or, the one where Colin takes Penelope’s virginity “as a friend.”
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01 Jun 2025
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I'm Making Her a Mama by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Feb 2025
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Penelope Featherington may have only just turned 32 years old, but she’s come to a very important decision in her life. She’s ready to become a mother. She’s got a career that she’s passionate about and is completely financially independent and secure. All that’s missing is the man, but she’s done waiting on love. It’s time for Penelope to take matters into her own hands and do what she’s always done in her life—make her own dreams come true.
Colin Bridgerton, one of her best friends, is entering a bit of a hiatus from his jet-setting career as a travel photographer. He’ll be permanently in place in London for the foreseeable future while, at 35 years old, he tries to figure out what he wants to do with his life. While his intention in finally sitting still for a while had been to work out what his professional goals are going forward, Colin’s quickly becoming fixated on a very different kind of aspiration for himself.
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Or, the one where Penelope and Colin decide to make a baby “as friends.”
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19 May 2025
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The Blind Date Bet by RomancingTon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Dec 2024
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After spending years scouring apps and enduring lackluster dates, Penelope is at a dead end in her quest for romance. The Bridgerton family, upon hearing this, concocts a bet to see which sibling can set her up on the best blind date. Penelope accepts, nervous at the prospect of her best friend and lifelong love, Colin, setting her up after coming home permanently from his travels.
The winner, determined by who Penelope believes her best date to be with, receives the mallet of death for a full year.
The loser? Potentially the man who didn't realize he was in love with her in the first place.
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- 11/11
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02 May 2025
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Penelope drunkenly confesses her love to her best friend’s brother, leaving her mortified come morning.
Two months later, in a desperate attempt to move on, she brings her new boyfriend to the Bridgerton’s annual weekend away.
But if Colin Bridgerton doesn’t love her back, why does he look like he wants to kill him?
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07 Apr 2025
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In 1814, Colin went to bed in Bridgerton House the day he returned from Greece. When he awakens after what seems like a normal night’s sleep, it’s 1816, he’s married to Penelope, and they have a four-month-old son. With no knowledge of what has happened in the previous two years, Colin tries to navigate a life that is very different from the one he left behind. Meanwhile, Penelope navigates being married to a version of Colin who does not remember their life together or their love for each other.
This is a companion fic to Here We Go Again, in which a happily married Colin goes to bed in 1816 but wakes up shortly after he returns from Greece in 1814. You do NOT need to have read Here We Go Again to read this. While there will be intentional connections and parallels, the two stories are independent.
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- Part 2 of Falling Again
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04 Mar 2025
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All Roads That Lead To You As Integral As Arteries To Me by thathoppingmadtargaryen
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Mar 2024
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After her falling out with Eloise and deciding to forsake her love for Colin, Penelope Featherington vows to forge a new life for herself. With the new season on the horizon, Penelope plans to find a husband and continue her life as a writer without interference from her family. But her quest for independence is thwarted by two very distracting things: a manhunt for Lady Whistledown by the Queen of England and one very annoying man who has reentered her life dressed remarkably like a rogue and demanding her attention.
Meanwhile, Colin has returned from another year abroad with a new swagger and a purpose. But when he's rejected by the one person he thought was his biggest champion, Colin finds himself dejected. In a desperate attempt to win her back, he promises to help her find the life she longs for. But as Penelope attracts more attention, Colin finds himself confronted with feelings he never thought he would experience, least of all for his best friend.
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What I'm writing to deal with the months long wait before we even get a trailer for Polin's season.
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17 Feb 2025
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*chefs kiss* over and over and over. Perfect.
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Illicit Instruction by ninjamanda
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 May 2024
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"You are a flower ready to bloom, Miss Featherington."
After the events of last season, Penelope is throwing herself into writing Lady Whistledown. The only thing that stands in her way is her meddlesome family. The best way to escape from them? Why, getting married, of course. When Lady Danbury offers to mentor Penelope, she begins her quest to turn from simple wallflower, to blossoming rose... or at the very least, a daisy.
Colin was finding out the hard way that this flower had thorns.
Returning home for the social season, Colin is feeling, well, rather despondent. His best friend did not return a single one of his letters, and now she is referring to him as Mr. Bridgerton. When he realizes that Penelope's desire is to find a husband this year, Colin is determined to work his way back into her good graces, through helping instruct her in the ways of wooing.
"We will turn you into the loveliest, most enchanting flower the ton has ever seen."
But what happens when these secret lessons to find Penelope love work perhaps a little too well? And on the very last person they intended: Colin himself?
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02 Jan 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Loved it so much and was legit so sad it was over. Professional level writing and all for free are you kidding!? Gave me a hard core book hangover when I was finished.
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Discovering Duty by annasometimeswrites
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Jan 2026
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'Come on,' Colin said. 'I ought to get you to bed.'
Penelope released his arms, putting a hand over her heaving bosom. 'Mr. Bridgerton— I am far too intoxicated for that kind of talk.’
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Penelope drinks too much at Kate and Anthony’s first ball of the season and makes a confession Colin never saw coming.
But that’s not the only surprise of the night. Penelope and Colin’s drunken antics have attracted the attention of a few other members of the Ton, leading society to draw their own conclusions about what could possibly be going on between the pair.
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- 11/19
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12 Nov 2024
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"Normally, I only have to think of you reading my letters for my muse to alight upon my shoulder and guide my quill across the page. You said once that there is so much more to say than what one can put into a letter… tell me, Pen… do you have nothing to say? Have my letters missed the mark? Your silence is most unusual, and I cannot help but feel perplexed, as I cannot figure out what could possibly be keeping you from responding… twelve letters, Penelope… one, or two is an accident… twelve is a punishment."
Colin returns to London for the Season of 1815, hoping to reconnect with his friend Penelope - only to discover that everything has changed between them.
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- Part 2 of Regency Polin S3
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- 66,647
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- 20/20
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11 Oct 2024
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"I would like to marry," Penelope said bluntly. She looked him directly in the eye, daring him to disagree.
"Right." Colin gave a slow nod of the head, clearly taken aback by the declaration. His eyes had gone wide, giving him a look that was reminiscent of cornered prey.
It seemed that the heavens were intent upon tormenting her.
"Not you," she managed to say evenly, although she felt tumultuous waves rocking the boat that was her composure.
"No, of course not," he agreed hastily, embarrassment evident on his face.
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(Set post S2. Some elements from the S3 synopsis, but not a prediction fic.)
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- Part 1 of Regency Polin S3
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- 80,050
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- 14/14
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25 Sep 2024
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“Pen,” he husks, pupils blown to black, “let’s make a baby.”
In which Colin returns home drunk from the tavern and shares his desire to procreate - only for Penelope to confess they already have.
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19 Sep 2024
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a spark to pierce the dark by usuallysunny
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Sep 2024
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“Thank you,” she whispers into the moonlight, her voice barely audible over the pounding of his own heart.
She turns to flee — and his hand darts out without his permission.
He doesn’t plan on wrapping his fingers around her wrist and pulling her right back to him.
He doesn’t plan on kissing her again.
But he does both anyway.
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19 Sep 2024
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Secret Love Song by usuallysunny
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Nov 2024
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The night before Penelope marries Lord Debling, Colin leaves Mayfair, shutting his family and the world out.
Five long and silent years later, Violet's sudden illness brings him home... back to London and the woman who never stopped loving him.
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- 18/18
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11 Sep 2024
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The Rules of Propriety by romanticblossom
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 May 2024
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“Fail to unders-” Colin shook his head and took a step closer to her. “I’m sure you are aware that it is a gentleman’s duty to marry a lady should he bring dishonour upon her.”
“Yes, but you’re not a gentleman, you’re Colin,” she interrupted him, her blue eyes boring into his, “You don’t count.”
Taken aback by the explanation, he could only stare at her in disbelief. Those words were familiar to him, yet they made him feel strange.
"Just look at our surroundings," Penelope gestured to the empty room. “We are without a chaperone, as we have been on multiple occasions. Suppose someone were to enter through those doors at this very moment, we would be under an obligation to marry, regardless of whether or not we kissed. So, what difference does it make?”
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The year is 1815, and Colin Bridgerton devises the brilliant strategy to aid Penelope Featherington in attracting eligible suitors.
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- 13/13
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06 Sep 2024
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Aflame by Sea_Dragonfly for Momomochi
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
13 Jul 2024
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Colin Bridgerton had always favoured red heads. He often found it… difficult to connect with another person; even in the most intimate of acts he felt a distance. But when he was with a woman with firey hair, something seemed to flicker in his soul.
A few nights after his return to the ton, he attends a masquerade ball hosted by the notorious Madame Littlelove. It's there he spots a courtesan with the perfect shade of auburn.
Well, at least he thinks she is a courtesan...
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- 11,108
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- 1/1
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22 Aug 2024
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The Gentlemen's Wager by murderbymushrooms
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Mar 2024
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“This is not happening Colin. I am not going to play any part in this, do you hear me?”
“Of course, nobody would expect you to fall over at my feet, especially in light of my unforgivably rude comments last Season.” Colin said, all reason and calm as he collected his hat from a footman, “And what would be the entertainment in that? You must be permitted to test my mettle as a suitor. Indeed I am beginning to look forward to the chase.”
“There will be no entertainment! No chase!” Penelope protested, panic steadily rising within her. “Colin-”
“Good day, Miss Penelope.” Colin smiled, familiar laughter and devilry dancing on his handsome face. She watched in mute outrage as he tipped his hat to her and strolled out her front door.
After his careless words ruined Penelope's prospects on the marriage mart, Colin is determined to do everything he can to restore her reputation and to find her a good match, even if it means pretending to court his best friend.
However, outside forces with a grudge against the Bridgertons inadvertently transforms a wallflower into the most coveted prize of the London Season of 1815.
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- English
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- 105,687
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- 14/14
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21 Aug 2024
Bookmarker's Notes
A literal emotional roller coaster. I loved every second of it and I didn’t want it to be over.
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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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 66,655
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- 14/14
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12 Aug 2024
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There's been a string of attacks in Mayfair. When Penelope is the most recent victim, Colin Bridgerton is faced with a potential he had never considered.
Losing her forever.
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- English
- Words:
- 75,414
- Chapters:
- 21/21
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- 2
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- 849
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- 7,816
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07 Aug 2024
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What Happens In Brazil by shurrup_ash
Fandom Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton (TV) RPF, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Aug 2024
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A series of oneshots preceding the events of What Happens In Brazil.
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06 Aug 2024
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Historical non-fiction. Accurate depictions of what happened with Luke and Nic. Cannot convince me otherwise.