malpal132
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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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the polin love island au
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fuck the camera (kiss me back) by malpal132 for pastaslut
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
21 Sep 2024
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He’d been enjoying his time in Thailand but home, with its graveyard of brownery and Penelope (Penelope), inspired Colin to cut his trip short by a week. Besides, he had to know if Lady Whistledown, the lady palm proven impossible to kill, had finally received comeuppance for her addiction to talking shit.
Mostly, though, he was resolved.
Colin didn’t want to dance around this anymore. He ascribed to Harry Burns’ school of thought on romance and every moment spent trying to feign indifference felt like a waste. He was going home, and he was going to make her witness what she did to him. No more pretending.
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Penelope asks Colin to take her nudes.
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she sighs, he gasps by malpal132 for pastaslut
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 Jun 2024
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“Penelope Anne Featherington,” he says, turning to her with hands on his hips, expression gleeful. “Did you break the bed?”
She does her best impression of a dog who’s ripped all the down from a pillow. He can’t prove anything.
“I did,” she says.
Damn. There’s always been a disconnect between her mouth and her brain.or
Penelope's bed breaks. Of course it's Colin who finds her.
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The Broom-Averse Guide to Magical Methods of Transportation by malpal132
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 May 2024
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“I hate the Floo,” he says. It just comes out of him, like the time he’d jinxed himself to vomit slugs. “It gives me migraines for days afterward. S’why I asked Nott for a Portkey.”
Pansy laughs ruefully, pulling her fisherman’s beanie on a little tighter. Her feet stay planted where they are. “I have my reasons, too,” she says.
He holds out his hand in a flourish, motioning for her to list them.
“It’s none of your—” She stops. “Look,” she says, her gaze at her feet before she meets his. “I’m not just being a cunt. Traveling with me is…complicated.”
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- Part 2 of Healer's Guide Universe
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“What is it that you want?”
So many things.
“Books,” she said.
He watched her for a long time before he slowly shook his head.
“Try again.”
Hermione huffed, irritated beyond reason that he’d seen through it.
“I want somebody to read a book I told them about,” she said, picking at her nail bed. “Just because they want to feel close to me.”
It came out horribly vulnerable, a needy and naked thing that ought to be clothed. Confiding in Malfoy of all people probably wasn’t wise, but he was a man transformed, no longer hollowed out by fear. He didn’t haunt the halls in penance; he lived it through his interest in his Muggle-born students, in her.
If anybody was the ghost here, it was Hermione. She’d left behind her body once the War was over, severed the nerve endings of every emotion when it all became too much.
Draco leaned forward.
“Are you lonely, Granger?”
“Are you?” she shot back, scowling.
“All the fucking time.”
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Penelope and Colin had a falling out years ago.
Does she still love him? Yes. Is she doing her best to forget him? Absolutely (if you don't count that *one* thing).
He's been busy traveling the world, barely home at all — certainly not for New Year's.
So. What exactly does he think he's doing at the lodge, standing in her room?
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12 Feb 2026
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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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21 Aug 2025
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“It’s just, like, a twelve-hour drive. It’s not even that bad.”
“That’s extremely bad. Why aren’t you flying?”
“Because tickets are insane.”
“Aren’t you rich?”
He ignored that. “It’ll be fun! Just you and me? On the road? Seeing some of America’s greatest sights?”
“Like what? Indiana?”
“Like… like Chicago!”
Or, Colin needs a date to a wedding on Christmas Eve. Penelope has nothing better to do.
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21 May 2025
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take me like you do in your dreams by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 Apr 2025
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Colin convinces Penelope to share custody of a dog. It's purely platonic. Just best friends, raising a dog. Nothing to worry about at all.
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04 Apr 2025
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“Well, I heard in town that you were looking for some help digging a well. And I thought I might provide my services.”
Penelope stared at him. “Now why on God’s green earth would you want to do that?” she asked, more bluntly than was perhaps proper for a young lady. “We can’t pay you.” Their father had left them with almost nothing, save this land and the house they were standing on. It was a pretty nice house - better than some of the others in the area - but life was hard.
He shook his head and turned his hat over in his hands. “No, I didn’t expect you could. I hoped you might instead pay me in kind.”
Penelope’s cheeks flushed red and she looked down, her hands smoothing the faded yellow cotton of her day dress. She didn’t suppose he meant what it sounded like he meant, being a gentleman and all, but the idea of Colin Bridgerton taking that sort of payment from her made her cheeks hot.
OR: local cowboy offers to help farmgirl dig a well (aka cowboy colin meets prairie girl pen)
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