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After being hit by a car in 2024 Penelope Featherington wakes up in 1815. Just month before travel author Colin Bridgerton is set to be murdered. Trying to navigate time travel, new rules, murder suspects and and blossoming feelings, will Penelope manage to change the past and with that, her future.
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18 Dec 2024
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Adoring Mrs. Bridgerton by hippiechick7897
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
15 Dec 2024
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Colin and Penelope find themselves in a very public unseemly spectacle that force them to marry. Surely, it’s agreeable to marry your best friend and carry on as if nothing changed, right? Except you cannot get away; that person is always there, always present, always flashing an ankle trying to tempt you. And tempted you are...
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Romancing ever after by georgialee06
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Jun 2022
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Colin Bridgerton had been a fool to not realise what had been before him all that time. He loved his wife more than anything, and the life they had built. Yet often he wondered why he hadn’t known sooner that she was the one. Why he hadn’t noticed how very wonderful she was? What if he too had loved her from the same moment she had fallen for him…
Story is complete and I will post regularly.
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- 48,576
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- 15/15
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15 Dec 2024
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buried in the shallow grave by snowokay
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Dec 2024
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In a world where the marriage ritual leaves a permanent mark on you, the word that reflects your match’s first impression of you appears in your skin.
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Penelope had known since she was eight years old who she would marry. She had heard stories about him, how brave and noble he was, and spent her whole life in love with the boy in the picture.
Something that had never crossed Penelope’s mind, however, was the possibility that Colin Bridgerton would be disappointed upon meeting her.
“Speak now, Penelope, with clarity and conviction. What is the word, bestowed upon you by the gentleman ordained as your match, that defines you in his eyes?”
The celebrant’s voice suddenly felt like a distant hum, her vision blurred by the tears welling up in her eyes. On her wrist, visible to anyone close enough to read it, was written her word with golden letters.
Shallow.
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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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13 Dec 2024
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Bless The Telephone by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 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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11 Dec 2024
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it's just that i'll always choose you by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Jul 2024
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When Colin Bridgerton returns to London for a social media sabbatical, Penelope suggests that he crash with her for the duration, however long it might be. Sure, she's been in love with him forever, and sure she has a full-time job, and sure she's a secret romance writer and nobody knows it, but she's really good at hiding things, so it should be fine, right? But when she also suggests that he work with her publisher, all of the secrets she's been so carefully tending start creeping into the light.
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05 Dec 2024
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A Proposition from a Gentleman by CitywitchRamblings
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Dec 2024
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Benedict decides he's going to be a good big brother and help his little brother, Colin, realize that he's in love with his best friend, Penelope.
How else should he help but by convincing her to fake date him? If Colin sees how jealous he is, surely he would be forced to confront his feelings?
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Colin didn't choose the chaos this time; the chaos chose him. (Thanks, @Tonksie, for that defense)
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- 4/4
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04 Dec 2024
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“What - what were they saying?”
Penelope glances at him sideways. His cheeks are a little flushed, that pretty mouth of his partly open. He is still staring at her.
“Um. Well. They said you were daddy material.”
The minute it comes out of her mouth she knows she should not have said it. It is so deeply, awfully inappropriate. Her cheeks burn. She is about to apologise when Colin straightens and twists his whole body towards her.
“What does that mean?” he asks. When she does not answer, he uses his stern teacher voice, the one he uses on the students. “Penelope. Tell me.”
Why does that make her melt?
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03 Dec 2024
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Fatal Fantasies by somethingfunnybubbly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
13 Dec 2024
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"He had sent Penelope- beautiful, innocent, perfect Penelope- the deviant writings of an absolute madman. Writings that detailed the way he wanted her, ways that were decidedly ungentlemanly. She was going to think he was deranged."
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Penelope had no last name.
Left in the woods at only four years old to die, a now twenty-two year old Penelope has been travelling the continent as a healer, with no memory of her past, wanting nothing more than to help others and to protect her heart from any more of the loss and pain she had endured. That is until she meets a handsome nobleman in the markets and her entire world changes, and all the secrets that she had thought lost to the past are slowly revealed.
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blue dress on a boat by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Sep 2024
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Penelope's efforts to find herself a husband during her third year on the marriage mart are going poorly, but when she discovers that Benedict Bridgerton needs a wife as much as she needs the freedom a husband can provide her, they strike a deal and agree to marry.
But when Colin comes home from his travels to discover the engagement, he handles it poorly, to say the least.
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- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 426
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30 Nov 2024
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Tiger Stripes by lixabiz for Stillpink, wantisamlindyla
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Aug 2024
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He didn’t like to admit it, but the truth was he’d always had a thing for her boobs. It started a couple of years before the Yellow Bra Incident, back when Penelope had just turned thirteen and started growing them. Which, of course, coincided with Colin, at the time fifteen-going-on-sixteen, becoming obsessed with breasts. Not hers in particular, just breasts in general, but… well, Penelope was a little plump. Which meant her budding breasts were a little plump as well. She had developed earlier and faster than his sister, who remained a beanpole for many years yet.
He was very good at compartmentalising, it turned out.
Pen was his little sister’s bestie, yes; but Pen’s breasts were an entirely different thing altogether.
(aka the AU where Penelope becomes an instagram lingerie model and Colin loses his mind.)
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- English
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- 55,166
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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29 Nov 2024
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Sugar by lixabiz, wantisamlindyla
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Nov 2024
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“I—” she stared up at him and said in a small voice, “it’s too much to ask of you.”
“It’s not,” Colin said firmly. “Don’t overthink it,” he urged her.
Ten minutes ago, she had no home and no chance that she would ever know where her dad was. Colin had just walked into the room and taken control of everything within a matter of minutes, like her own personal white knight.
“Just let someone take care of you for once.”
In which Colin slowly, inadvertently, and inevitably becomes Penelope’s sugar daddy.
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- 20/20
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25 Nov 2024
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Mistress For Sale by irockatdriving
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Nov 2024
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Each season, the single women of the Ton are entered into either the marriage market or the mistress market. Every year, dozens of women who are considered spinsters or who are otherwise unable to enter the marriage market are sold at auction to become a mistress to a gentleman of the Ton.
Desperate for his brother to become a man, Anthony encourages Colin to purchase a mistress to learn the ways of the world. Colin is hesitant at first but agrees when he comes across an enchanting redhead named Penelope.
How will Colin accept the struggle of falling in love with his mistress, knowing society will expect him to eventually cast her aside and take a wife? How will his brothers accept his internal struggle?
Note: There is freeuse in this story, so please skip if this isn't your thing. It is a Polin HEA story.
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Til Death Parts Us by Chelsea_Marie_P
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Dec 2024
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After the death of her husband Portia Featherington discovers just how much money he owes to Colin Bridgerton, the owner of London's largest gambling hall. In a desperate attempt to hold on to her home, she meets with the man in hopes he will take mercy on her and her youngest daughter, Penelope. Colin agrees to help in exchange for Penelope's hand in marriage.
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Let's Make It Cinematic by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Nov 2024
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Colin Bridgerton objectively has a very cool job and a very cool life. He jets around the globe as a travel photographer, visiting the most beautiful and historic locales and literally get paid to do it. And yet, he couldn’t be more bored these days. That’s how he finds himself crashing in his sister’s spare room in an attempt to figure out what the hell he wants to do next. While he attempts to renew his enthusiasm for the career that once brought him so much joy or decide on making a change of some kind, he’s looking forward to a relaxing few weeks (maybe a few months even) spending time with his family and his best friend Penelope Featherington. Colin is anything but relaxed, however, when he finds out that shy, sweet, soft-spoken Pen has been hiding a career change of her own from him—a very lucrative and very surprising career at that.
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Or, the one where Penelope is on OnlyFans.
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- 11/11
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23 Nov 2024
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My Kingdom Come Undone by mouseratstan
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Nov 2024
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In the wake of a great tragedy that shakes all of Mayfair to its core, Colin Bridgerton suddenly finds himself the Viscount, a role that he wants absolutely nothing to do with. Who is he to fix this? He, who has absolutely nothing?
Nothing, that is, but a tentative friendship with the disgraced Penelope Featherington, recently outed as the great Lady Whistledown. He shouldn’t be seen with her. He shouldn’t be doing a great many things, but what if he doesn’t care anymore?
What if all this grief is all that’s left of him?
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Colin Bridgerton was not a fool, despite what his siblings might think. Nor was he merely a charming and handsome darling, as Lady Whistledown had labeled him in the past. No, Colin Bridgerton was well-read and well-educated, and he was observant, even though his current predicament required no real outlay of any of these qualities.
Colin Bridgerton knew he had fallen out of favor with Penelope Featherington.
Watch as Colin Bridgerton goes to increasingly mad lengths to keep Penelope Featherington safe and sound (and away from other suitors).
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19 Nov 2024
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"She had way too much tonight. And he knew she would, she does this every time a guy breaks her heart. Or her ego, maybe. Her heart never really seems in it, which is confusing to him since Penelope does just about everything heart-first.
Except dating.
He wonders if that has something to do with her upbringing, her mother, a lack of love. Some sort of avoidance of it all, some sort of block.
But still, every time. With Henry she drank every single beer out of his fridge. She hates beer. He held her hair back as she hurled for hours in the early morning. With Phineas she showed up at his already plastered, mascara stains on her cheeks as she smiled weird and wide and asked to come inside. With George she was calmer, but she still called him after drinking a whole bottle of wine by herself and he could tell she had been crying. It's always clear in her voice. In her eyes.
Heart-first."
Based on this Twitter prompt:
"Drunk Pen: Colin is actually so good looking.
Colin: …
Pen: don’t tell him I said that
Colin: I won’t"