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“Mr Bridgerton? Colin?”
He almost did not recognise her. She looked very different — pretty red curls bobbed fashionably; cheeks and lips stained with a little rouge; a day dress in a lovely mauve colour that made her eyes seem bluer, somehow — but it was her scent that threw him off. Now that he thought about it, he could not quite recall what Penelope Featherington actually smelled like (he had not seen her in years, after all). She was so often at Bridgerton House that all he could summon was the same lilac smell that his mother and his siblings bore, but of course there must be other notes he was forgetting.
Still, he was fairly certain she had never smelled like this: vetiver and geranium, sharp and green and floral.
Not a bad smell by any means — just not Penelope’s. Even though he could not recall her scent, he knew certainly this was not it. She must be wearing perfume. It befuddled him so much that he realised he had been staring at her silently for a lot longer than was polite, especially for an old family friend he had not seen in ages.
OR: in 1920s paris, perfumer colin meets an old friend
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- English
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- 54,691
- Chapters:
- 8/8
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- 1
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- 810
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- 1,788
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18 Jun 2026
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Something Wonderful by Sea_Dragonfly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Mar 2024
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Never in his wildest fantasies did Colin Bridgerton think he'd be woken up at 5am the day he was due to fly out to Sri Lanka by Penelope Featherington begging him to take her with him.
She was supposed to be celebrating her engagement, after all.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,383
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 297
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- 3,048
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- 762
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- 48,532
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01 Mar 2026
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Surviving Christmas by Sea_Dragonfly for starenie
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Feb 2025
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All Penelope wants for Christmas is to wallow. Alone at My Cottage is the perfect place to do it.
All Colin wants is… Well, she’s not entirely sure what Colin wants. That’s the problem. He shouldn’t even be there.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,564
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Comments:
- 719
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- 2,411
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- 566
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- 46,178
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18 Feb 2026
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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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- English
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- 11,108
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 159
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- 2,809
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07 Feb 2026
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Every Thursday night the Bridgerton's (plus partners & friends) went to Mondrich's. It was Penelope's favourite day of the week.
This particular Thursday started the same way. Until Colin is suddenly kissing her, and telling his ex she is the person he's dating.
Everything is fine.
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- English
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- 19,608
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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- 610
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18 Jan 2026
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Colin Bridgerton is the smug head of Bridgerton Publishing. Penelope Featherington is the bestselling author who once called him “an overpriced bookmark in a suit.” Their public feud is legendary—fueled by sharp tweets, literary panels turned battlegrounds, and one very compromising limo incident outside the Publisher’s Book Awards.
What starts as professional rivalry turns into something a lot messier (and a lot more romantic), unfolding across live tweets, poetry books, post-it notes, and accidental proposals.
Enemies to lovers?
No.
Enemies to viral scandal to emotional chaos to “my wife, my nemesis.”
And the internet never stood a chance.Bookmarked by HSVR
26 Dec 2025
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shut up, I love you by itsokayitsfine
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Jun 2025
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Sometimes, when a man is pissing you off with his relentless ranting, the only course of action is to confess your undying love. This is loosely inspired by the modiste scene, which somehow still hits so fucking hard an entire year (!) later.
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02 Dec 2025
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City Lights by LazyTuesdayMorning
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Dec 2023
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Sometimes she wonders what people would say if they knew that Penelope Featherington was Colin Bridgerton's booty call. Felicity would probably spin it into some grand adventure, casting Penelope as the lonely figure stood on some moonlight shore as she waited for her lover to return. Eloise would undoubtedly be violently sick and then call her an idiot... and Penelope, well Penelope could hardly believe it herself.
It has to stop though.
It has to.
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- English
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- 47,784
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 376
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- 3,170
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- 805
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27 Oct 2025
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Her Hero by unsavorablefavors for MidnightMisty
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2025
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At four-and-forty, Colin Bridgerton found himself wanting more from life than travel. Something steady. Something that lasted.
What he didn’t expect was to propose to a freshly debuted girl—Penelope Featherington—in a desperate bid to salvage her reputation.
Who cared about a twenty-seven-year age gap, anyway?
Apparently, Colin did.Series
- Part 1 of May/December
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,999
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 295
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- 1,347
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- 325
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- 27,410
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22 Oct 2025
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Distance by MistressofNone3645
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Feb 2025
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What if Penelope was the one out traveling? Colin is back from his escapades across the continent, finishing his studies, when his friend decides to have her own grand adventure. They strike a deal to communicate only through old fashioned letters. The romanticism and intimacy of thoughtfully crafting paragraphs and committing them to paper brings them closer than years of friendship ever has, even over a vast distance.
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Modern Pen and Colin fall in love over letters as she travels, leaving him pinning from his desk at home.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,227
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 159
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- 362
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- 104
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- 11,196
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07 Oct 2025
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It Almost Didn't Happen by LizzieeeeeeeeeD
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Mar 2024
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He glanced back up to her face, her blue eyes wide and shiny, her cheeks flushed despite the poor evening lighting, her lips pink and swollen due to worrying them between her teeth. Colin felt like he could barely breathe. Suddenly, she was tempting him in a way he had been tempted by other women. It was the same feeling he got when he met a beautiful woman at a bar or when meeting up with a tinder date.
But this was different, this was Penelope.
“I don’t ignore you on purpose,” he said softly, his voice a bit lower than he expected. Her entire presence was confusing him.
“You have a funny way of showing it.” She leaned her back against the tree, letting out a sigh and pressing her head against the trunk. He was absolutely done for. The way her neck extended, the expanse of her throat just begging for his lips. Her chest still heaving, each inhalation thrusting her breast up where the moonlight was so helpfully casting shadows in all the right dips and bulges, making her look like a siren.
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On the eve of his wedding to Marina, Colin is presented with many confusing truths, which may lead him in another direction.
Modern AU
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- English
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- 50,502
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
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- 423
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- 1,655
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- 343
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- 44,513
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02 Oct 2025
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though we may roam by nojamhands for bumbershootindeed, canarysingingsweetly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 Dec 2024
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“Are you quite serious?”
Colin rolled his eyes and held back an irritated sigh. If he had two quid for every time he’d heard this particular query from his eldest brother, he’d likely be rich enough to do without his trust completely (maybe). “I don’t see what the big fuss is, Ant. This is what you wanted, isn’t it?”
Anthony scoffed. “For you to put down some roots, yes. I didn’t realize going on a reality show would be part of that.”—
ORColin goes on a House Hunters-esque show and brings Penelope along to help him choose his new home. Assumptions are made, tension rises, minor chaos ensues, and the end result is quite different than Colin originally planned.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,271
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Comments:
- 291
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- 1,188
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- 281
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- 20,976
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01 Oct 2025
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Whiskey and Warmth by fullysplendid
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Apr 2025
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Everyone is lovely, loud and incredibly confident. And she is wearing no underwear.
Shots is the only solution.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,118
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 195
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- 1,197
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- 150
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- 9,177
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30 Sep 2025
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The Calm In His Arms by Bridgertonia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Mar 2025
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Penelope Featherington is trapped in Iceland when a volcanic eruption closes the airport.
There's one way home, by ferry, from the other side of the island. But the only way she can get there in time is by catching a lift with Colin Bridgerton - the first man she fell in love with; the only man to break her heart. And someone she has avoided for the last ten years.
OR: A road trip during which Penelope discovers she hates vanlife, but her feelings about Colin are far more troublesome.
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- Part 1 of Iceland Road Trip AU
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,732
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 689
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- 1,499
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- 356
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- 30,283
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28 Aug 2025
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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.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,720
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Comments:
- 730
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- 3,482
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- 1,031
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- 75,753
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24 Aug 2025
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The first time was an accident, it just… happened. The second time was testing the waters, was the first a fluke or not? Neither of them have a real excuse for the third, and the fourth, well, by the fourth time they’d finally started to sort their shit out.
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Three times Colin and Penelope got drunk and had sex and a fourth where they were completely sober.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,252
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 166
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- 1,859
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- 323
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- 29,540
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21 Aug 2025
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Colin Bridgerton is given a chance to see the past through new eyes—and with it, the quiet heartbreak of the woman he’s destined to love. In the silence of memory, he discovers that the greatest wounds are the ones never spoken… and the truest love is the one that sees everything.
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05 Aug 2025
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People talk a lot about the physical and emotional impact on women during “that time of the month.” For Penelope Featherington, though, there’s an entirely separate portion of the month that hits her the hardest, and the symptoms she experiences are distinct from that other time. It’s a different sort of ache that settles low in her belly, a different form of discomfort driving her to cocoon herself in bed, and a different type of tenderness that envelopes her body and her mind. As time goes by, it’s only getting harder and harder to deal with on her own. If only she knew someone kind and handsome and trustworthy to help her through it…
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Or, Penelope experiences extreme horniness when she’s ovulating every month and Colin offers to sleep with her “as a friend.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 80,192
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 1,609
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- 3,181
- Bookmarks:
- 511
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- 91,089
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31 Jul 2025
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Like Real People Do by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Mar 2024
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Penelope has lied to her family about Colin being her boyfriend and now they have to attend her sister's wedding together. Portia is skeptical, which makes the fake couple determined to convince her they're actually together, and the friends become swept up in the fantasy causing them to realize their true feelings for each other.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,187
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 902
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- 3,869
- Bookmarks:
- 851
- Hits:
- 95,968
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20 Jul 2025
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Colin and Penelope’s Excellent Adventure by ktbeets
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
05 Nov 2022
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A drunken evening leads to an impromptu road trip for Colin and Penelope. After a less-than stellar start, they come to realize just how little they actually know about their fellow travel companion. Over 10 days exploring the English countryside, they each get a deeper look into each other’s quirks, deepest desires and most closely held secrets.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 55,675
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 503
- Kudos:
- 1,570
- Bookmarks:
- 357
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- 47,476
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20 Jul 2025