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    She doesn’t want to be angry with Colin, but she is. She knows that his laugh wasn’t one of malice, that he was just joking around with his brothers- but still, she was the joke, and that’s the thing she can’t quite get past. Penelope had never once expected Colin to love her the way that she loved him, she’s not an idiot, but she’d hoped that- after over a decade of friendship- he’d have a little more respect for her. 

     

    Why is she crying over him anyways? Why is she crying over a man who clearly doesn’t care about her as much as he said he did? A man who’s taken her and her friendship for granted? It’s not like Colin’s so great, certainly not a guy worth spilling tears over. Colin’s… He… 

     

    Fuck. Why can’t she think of any of his flaws?

     

    Well, that’s going to change. 

     

    Penelope wipes her tears and grabs an empty notebook from her room, she sits at her desk and immediately begins writing. 

     

    Reasons Why Colin Bridgerton Isn’t That Great

     

    Penelope writes down Colin's flaws in a journal to get over him, it goes about as well as you'd expect.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    It had been a while since Penelope discovered Colin Bridgerton had the filthiest mouth in all of London (mostly because it had also been a while since they started sleeping together), so when his dirty talk begins to take a turn towards the romantic, she’s certain it means nothing. Except, well, does he really have to make ‘nothing’ sound so bloody… convincing?

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    08 Jun 2026

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    She’s been pacing around her room for the last 10 minutes, checking her phone every two seconds for a reply. The screen lights up each time she picks it up: 10:47, 10:47, still 10:47. It feels like time is standing still just to torment her. She can see that he's read her messages. The little "Read" receipt sits there, a silent verdict of his indifference.

    A story of what happened after the fight at Malone's.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Penelope runs a GCSE training academy.
    Colin offers to help co-teach some courses during one of his long sojourns in London.

    Everything is dandy.

    Except:

    • Colin wears glasses to work. Slutty glasses. Mind-scrambling, sanity-demolishing glasses
    • He seems to be looking at her in increasingly unplatonic ways
    • Their students keep mistaking them for a married couple and calling her Mrs. Bridgerton

    For Polin Week 2026, Day 2 prompt: Academics AU

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    21 Apr 2026

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    When Colin gets injured and has to bow out of a trip to Italy for a collaboration between Pen's work and Bridgerton Corp, what is she to do? Why, take Cardboard Colin of course!

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    14 Apr 2026