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    It begins with a locked door.

    No, this was set in motion long before that. When Penelope locked him out of her heart.

    Colin is determined to restore their friendship, but first, they have to navigate one night together. An intimate moment leads to more, until they find themselves in a place neither could have imagined.

    Only One Bed Regency AU

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    15 Dec 2024

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    What if Colin were forthright under the willow tree? This story follows canon until that moment beneath the willow’s hanging branches but takes a new direction from there. Colin and Penelope express their feelings earlier, and their story unfolds not in isolation but amidst the lively and sometimes chaotic backdrop of both their families. While there are moments of tension and angst, Polin are better at communication, leading to more playful, romantic moments. Benedict stepping up as a wingman while the rest of the Bridgertons and Featheringtons offer their brand of support.

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    10 Dec 2024

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    “Colin!” Penelope shouts, her face lighting up with a smile that had to be a million or two watts, rivaling the brightness of the sun.

    “Pen,” he says, feeling some kind of weight drop from his shoulders, replaced by her when she jumps on him. Her arms wind around his neck and instinctively, he catches her, one hand on the back of her thigh and the other pressed against her lower back.

    “Fuck, I missed you,” she breathes.

    It’s exactly the homecoming he’d wished for. His heart takes off in his chest. She smells like vanilla and lavender, and her whole body is warm and wrapped around him, and he wonders if maybe they could stay like this for the rest of their lives, because God, he’s missed her, too.

    With his face buried in her neck, Colin murmurs, “Yeah, me, too.” Neither of them really let go, and he doesn’t want to read into it that much because—he doesn’t even know. Because he’s scared, maybe. Probably. Because he doesn't understand it and doesn’t want to. Because for all his exploration of caves and canyons, he isn’t sure he’s ready for whatever he’d find the second he reads the text of their friendship and discovers something hidden between the lines.

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    09 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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    08 Dec 2024

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    Penelope Featherington has been trying to get over her crush on her best friend Colin Bridgerton for the last several years. It should be pretty easy to do considering he spends the vast majority of his time away from London and in far off corners of the world as part of his travel writing and social media enterprises. He’s never around and she only sees him a couple of times a year at most. However, it turns out her problem in being unable to get over him has nothing to do with how often she spends time with him in-person. Her problem is the telephone.

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    Or, the one where Penelope and Colin start having phone sex as “friends.”

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    08 Dec 2024