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Colin is a new man, and he might take his pick of the Ton's beauties — so it makes little and less sense that he finds himself at a ball (he forgets whose — forgets nearly everything, in fact), struck dumb by the sight of her.
Penelope Featherington. Standing at the refreshment table with an eclair in hand, her eyes wide as she darts her gaze about to make sure no-one is watching her (not wide enough, apparently, for she does not see him).
Has she always been so… has she always been so? So much, so plump and spilling, so soft all over? Fresh and bright as the cream oozing from the end of her eclair, and he wonders if he pressed his thumb into the swell of her decolletage, how deep would it sink? How would she dimple and spill beneath his touch?
He watches, transfixed, as her pink tongue darts out to wet her plush lips, so rosy and pretty (the same colour as her round blushing cheeks). Watches those little thumb-print dimples appear as her mouth opens and she bites into the eclair, her lashes fluttering at the sweetness. God, to be the chocolate upon her tongue, the soft pillow of the pastry with the cold, clear cream within! Colin's mouth floods with saliva.
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29 Oct 2025
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poor puzzled moon by everlarktoast
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Dec 2024
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He rips her into his arms and throws them to the ground next to the closest building. The cobblestone scrapes her legs as they fall together. He embraces her tightly, brick wall hard against her back, arms trapped against his chest, head ducked down into hers. Despite the hard fall, she feels safe for the first time that day. Maybe ever.
Just for a moment.
There's a clattering noise nearby.
“Colin-”
A bright light flashes.
A horrible crash pierces the sky.
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A story of fear, loss, friendship, family, and love during the second World War.
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- Part 1 of A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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30 Aug 2025
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“I – perhaps I might stroke myself over you,” he stuttered. “Like the gentlemen did in the salon.”
Penelope nodded, and his hands dropped to the fall of his breeches, hurrying with the buttons.
“You – you did not wish to join the gentlemen earlier?” she asked, curious.
He paused with his fumbling fingers, a frown on his face. “No, I – I did not.”
“That’s alright.” She flopped back against the pillows and gazed up at him. “Is there any way I might assist?” she asked as he pulled out his cock. She could not help coo at the sight of it, excitement flittering through her, for it was weighty and thick, bobbing free of his breeches and weeping so prettily for her.
“Look at you,” she breathed, swallowing around her excitement. “So lovely and large.”
His cheeks turned almost as red as his cock then and he began to tug on it, his fist moving quickly. Penelope settled herself back, getting comfortable, and she wondered if she would ever grow tired of the sight of a man stroking his prick over her naked body.
OR: Harlot Pen gets a new customer
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hold on to the memories (they will hold on to you) by CarriageOnMyWaywardSon (wraithinthewings) for gentlewallflower (greyspilot)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Dec 2024
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Every year, Colin and Penelope visit the same little Christmas market, and every year, they buy each other gifts there, going to greater and greater lengths each time to prevent the other from catching them in the act. This year, however, Colin is determined to make their first market together as Mr. and Mrs. Bridgerton something she will remember forever.
Just then, as though she can sense his presence, that invisible string that seems to stretch between them tugging at her attention, she looks up. And there’s that smile—the one that is only for him, that fills him with a sweet honeyed warmth even on this cold December evening.
He walks toward her, closing the distance between them in a few long strides and wrapping his arms around her, surrounding her with his embrace. She sighs happily and leans against him, her arms slipping around his neck.
“Good evening, Mr. Bridgerton,” she murmurs into his chest, her breath warm even through his coat.
He pulls back without breaking their embrace and gazes into those sapphire eyes before planting a gentle kiss on her lips and murmuring softly, “Good evening, Mrs. Bridgerton.”
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26 Jun 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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- Part 1 of Cowboy Colin
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[Podfic] sweet things need time to grow by Anonymous for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Feb 2025
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[PODFIC]
“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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19 Apr 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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07 Apr 2025
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Not even done yet and best of Polin. I’m obsessed.
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i love the way you decorate my heart by uneventfulhouses for clevelandy
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Dec 2024
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After another detour, another hour in traffic, and then another detour, they’re finally rolling through a mostly clear, fairly deserted stretch of road. Then, the GPS on the screen loses signal.
“Fuck,” he mutters. “Can you check your cell?”
Penelope does, but there’s not even a hint of a bar. For good measure, she checks his, but it’s just as signal-less.
“I can’t believe we’re lost,” she says with a giggle. “You’re gonna be hungry soon.”
“You afraid you’re gonna get eaten first?” he asks with a stupidly charming grin. Penelope nudges him with her elbow.
“If we turn back now, we’re going to end up doing this for another five hours,” Colin whines. “And I’m worried I’ll probably get us more lost with how all the detours ended up.”
“There was a sign for an inn not that far back. Do you want to try our luck?” she asks him. He purses his lips.
“Probably a better idea, and at least we can be warm inside. I’m dying to be vertical again,” he agrees.
or; penelope and colin get lost on their way to aubrey hall and stay at an inn on christmas.
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29 Jan 2025
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your skin (oh yeah, your skin and bones) by uneventfulhouses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Jul 2025
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Once Eloise leaves Colin's room, Penelope and Colin's proximity changes its tone; maybe it’s all in Penelope’s head, but there’s an intimacy here as she burrows into Colin’s naked chest, like it’s where she belongs. It feels like she does. It feels like he’s supposed to hold her like this, captivate her with the heat of his flesh, the depths of his breaths, and the strength of his hold. It feels a little like home, and it devastates her to think like that.
But this is what she’s missed the most. These unparalleled moments where there are no guards or boundaries or weirdness. The parts of him that make her feel the softest, when he’s affectionate with her through touch, like yes, he missed her as in her personality, but also her as in the feeling of her skin and the softness of her hair, because she’s missed those things from him, too. The quiet of his voice as he speaks only to her, the caress of his fingers when he tries to get her attention, the warmth of him when he invites her into his bed so he can hold her like this.
or; Penelope and Colin are forced to be touching at all times.
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29 Jan 2025
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It's not even done and I'm obsessed. Best of Polin.
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Without You by PsychedelicHoneyBadger
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 Jan 2025
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1875 - After a lifetime of happiness, Penelope and Colin die on the same day, in each other's arms.
CW: I cried while writing this
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17 Jan 2025
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She is your marrow (and your ride home) by hopeandahalf
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 Nov 2024
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Penelope is, has always been, well…beautiful. Just…objectively and scientifically speaking. It’s obviously something Colin's had to ruthlessly compartmentalize as they’ve built such a deep friendship over the years, because those kinds of thoughts are a slippery slope and Pen is simply too important to him to ogle her like a horny buffoon, like some kind of disgusting man. But none of that changes the fact that she’s…well. Kind of perfect, really. Like, those…and her…whew. Just…her things. All the things.
Objectively speaking, of course.
Or: The life and times of Colin Bridgerton—struggling travel writer, existential crisis-haver, nepo baby, and...Penelope's wingman? Oh boy.
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“Why don’t you let me help you?” he says. “I never have a clue what the fuck is going on in my life. Who better to help you lose control than your chaotic bestie?”
Penelope stares at him.
“What… what were you thinking?” she asks, her voice hoarser than it was a moment before.
“Telling you beforehand rather defeats the purpose of the exercise, doesn’t it?” Colin’s left hand leaves the steering wheel, and he squeezes her knee for a moment. Penelope’s breath catches in her throat. “Don’t worry, Pen. Leave it with me.”
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Penelope needs to learn to give up control. Colin thinks he has the perfect solution
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“Perfect,” she says, then stands up and grabs the Polaroid camera, holding it to her eye.
She pauses for a moment, luxuriating in the sight in the little viewfinder. Her gorgeous, giant boyfriend tied to the kitchen chair with pretty satin ribbon, stark naked apart from his silver chain necklace and his silly little hoop earring. His wrists are tied behind his back, and she has wound the ribbon around his shoulders and chest a couple of times too for good measure.
He is perfect and gorgeous and gift-wrapped just for her.
OR it’s Penelope’s turn to help Colin lose control
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05 Dec 2024
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Best of Polin - sequel to tie me up, tie me down
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Forfeit by Sea_Dragonfly for disariya
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Feb 2024
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Penelope felt her cheeks heat. “A forfeit is usually a- a-”
“A kiss?” he offered.
Penelope nearly dropped her cue stick. If it were possible, her skin would catch aflame.
Colin rounded the billiards table, strolling as if he were wandering the paths of Hyde Park. “Or perhaps a piece of clothing?”
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Strip by writergirl8 for Elle018, wereadtoliveathousandlives
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2024
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Colin Bridgerton is expecting to have a relaxing holiday at Aubrey Hall with his family. There's just one variable he's not anticipating: he keeps stumbling upon Penelope Featherington in various states of undress.
Penelope doesn't know why fate is conspiring against her to have Colin see her naked, but she has bigger things to worry about. Namely, how she is going to hide her feelings from Colin when they're becoming closer friends every day.
After years of knowing each other, maybe they can finally strip down and see each other bare.
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let's get freaky, get kinky, let's make this bed get squeaky by LightLeadingMe for writergirl8, applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Oct 2024
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Everywhere was Colin. The minty scent of his shampoo, the musk of his cologne, lingering sweat. Pictures on his desk, some of them featuring Penelope, maps and some of his photography on the walls, his lava lamp that he’d had since he was fifteen that somehow still worked. There was even a laundry basket full of dirty clothes he hadn’t had a chance to get to before he was off on his work trip.
It was all rather intoxicating, feeling surrounded by him even though he wasn’t even in the same country, and the more she rolled around in it, the more that tugging sensation from her belly to between her legs made itself known.
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wanna make you fall in love by applepuffsilver, writergirl8
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Dec 2024
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“We’re friends. I’m happy to do you a favour.”
She really does mean it. There is nothing Penelope wouldn’t do for Colin Bridgerton.
But then he raises his eyebrows, clears his throat, and says, “I was wondering if you might consider letting me fuck you and pretend that I am trying to get you pregnant.” He pauses, pondering before he adds: “Please.”
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Or, after a series of increasingly unhinged sex dreams, Colin asks Penelope if he can roleplay getting her pregnant. Platonically, of course. That should get it out of his system.
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27 Nov 2024
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More brilliant emotional and sexy work from two of my faves. Best of Polin.
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Let loose your glow by writergirl8
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Aug 2022
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Midway through their lazy conversation, Colin realizes that this is, perhaps, his perfect Sunday afternoon scenario. Laying in bed with Penelope Featherington and doing absolutely nothing, not even for the first time that week.
He’s attracted to Penelope. In the really deep, immediate way that has always taken him way too long to reach with someone.
He feels seen. He feels singled out. He feels cared for.
He feels ready.
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08 Nov 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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06 Nov 2024
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Mr. Bridgerton and Lady Debling by OneAM_Still_Writing for Hayleythewriter
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 Jun 2025
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They started the dance silently. She wondered why he had bothered to ask her to dance at all if he didn’t want to talk. There was so much left to say, but none of it in polite company. And, most importantly, none of what she had to say mattered now. They were both married.
“I almost forgot to congratulate you-”
“You do not need to.”
“But I must-” She insisted.“I’d really rather you didn’t.” He said sternly. Colin’s face was unreadable as he couldn’t meet her eyes. Instead she stared at his clenched jaw. She supposed she wouldn’t have wanted his congratulations either after her own wedding, not that he tried to offer any.
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1814: Colin Bridgerton realizes he is in love. It should be a joyful time, but with competition for Pen's hand and secrets that threaten to ruin them, the pair's far from a happily ever after.1816: Penelope Debling is trying to make peace with her new life as a Countess running an estate for an absent husband. She is determined to feel content, but when she has to host Colin Bridgerton, old feelings threaten to unravel her.
This story will be told in 2 alternating timelines (complete with double ch drops!) until the first timeline catches up to 1816.
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Bookmarked by mostlyyalit
06 Nov 2024