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Author: nojamhands
Time Period: Mythology
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: Complete
Words: 13,029
Chapters: 2
Collection: Polin Written in Stone
Summary: In a time where gods and myths existed in harmony (and sometimes in strife), there lived the mortals who challenged them. And within the populace of mortals, there lived men and women who seemed to have been sculpted by the hands of the gods themselves. Amongst them were the Bridgertons, with their pearlescent skin that seemed to glow in the sun and their dark hair in nearly every shade of brown.
OR
Penelope and Colin in Ancient Greece — a familiar tale of love and woe.
Author: Royal_Darjeeling
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 46,527
Chapters: 6
Summary: Every Monday (and on special occasions) Penelope took her husband to bed.
It was an agreement, after a year of marriage, that they would finally explore each other for the sake of having a child. It did not mean anything, not at all.
Author: lavenderandlilacs
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 54,379
Chapters: 12
Summary: “It’s not as though you are in love with Penelope,” Eloise says.
She catches the tiny change in Colin's expression: a barely there wince. It takes her a moment to grasp the implications of it.
“Oh,” she whispers.
—
“It’s not as if you would actually wish for Colin to court you, so his words from last season need not signify,” Eloise says.
Penelope cringes.
“Oh,” Eloise says. Again.
Author: usuallysunny
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 8,293
Chapters: 2
Summary: She told him to be quiet, and she told him to be still, but he can feel every curve of her body and it’s driving him mad, and her perfume is making him dizzy, and his chest hurts, and his throat burns, and he just needs to say it—
“Please don’t marry him,” he whispers, “it will kill me if you marry him."
OR five times Colin tries to sabotage Penelope’s proposal, and the one time it works.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 91,763
Chapters: 12
Summary: 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.
--
Or, the one where Penelope and Colin start having phone sex as “friends.”
Author: missparker
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 40,478
Chapters: 10
Summary: 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.
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 14,912
Chapters: 2
Summary: It's not friends with benefits. It's friends OR benefits.
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 35,224
Chapters: 10
Summary: Colin Bridgerton is only in town for nine nights, so he plans to spend one night/day with each of his siblings (and his mom), enjoying their drink of choice while slowly coming to the realization (with his siblings' teasing help) that he's actually most excited for his last night in town with his best friend, Penelope Featherington ... maybe, quite possibly, because he loves her ...
Author: Lilyofthevolume
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 118,779
Chapters: 21
Series: Part 2 of Partners. Lovers. Friends.
Summary: Colin and Penelope return to Mayfair ready to court properly before announcing their engagement.
However, their plans for a scandal free season culminating in a perfect wedding are interrupted at every turn. Will our favorite couple rise to the challenges presented by society or will they trip before ever making it down the aisle?
Author: clevelandy
Time Period: Dystopia
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 46,605
Chapters: 4
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: “C” is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie, after all.
And then he meets a girl.
Or, a warm bodies au.
Author: Katie_500, Stillpink
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 36,712
Chapters: 10
Summary: Penelope never expected to spend her first season with the Bridgertons.
And Colin never expected that the young debutant would capture his heart, one dance at a time.
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 15,564
Chapters: 2
Summary: It is not until he buckles her into the back seat of his car that she says anything. “You ot Eweeze,” she mumbles, pretty blue eyes blinking at him. “Coh-win.”
“Want to run that one by me again, kid?”
Kid. He’s called her that since she was five and he was ten. She grimaces and puts her fingers into her mouth, pulling out a wad of soaked, lightly bloody cotton wool. Colin holds out his palm and she drops it in.
“You’re not Eloise,” she repeats, and the words are still warped and fuzzy but much more understandable. Colin balls up the cotton wool and with nowhere else to put it, shoves it in his pocket. “You’re Colin.”
“Good looking out,” Colin says, walking around to the driver’s seat and climbing in. He finds her eyes in the rear view mirror. “I am, in fact, Colin. The same Colin who took you to the hospital this morning, remember?”
Penelope nods solemnly. “You look like Eloise, though,” she tells him. “Same hair. Bet it feels just like hers.”
Or - Penelope gets her wisdom teeth removed and Colin offers to take care of her!
Author: usuallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 21,720
Chapters: 5
Summary: Penelope drunkenly confesses her love to her best friend’s brother, leaving her mortified come morning.
Two months later, in a desperate attempt to move on, she brings her new boyfriend to the Bridgerton’s annual weekend away.
But if Colin Bridgerton doesn’t love her back, why does he look like he wants to kill him?
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 34,974
Chapters: 3
Summary: Eloise snorts: “Pen hasn’t had a date in, like, a year.”
“Eloise!” she snaps.
She is going to die. She is going to die, and then she is going to come back as a ghost and haunt Eloise for the rest of her life.
OR
Penelope Featherington is going through a dry spell, and Colin Bridgerton offers to help her out. The same Colin Bridgerton who has secretly been in love with Pen for the past four years. What could go wrong?
educating professor bridgerton
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 42,196
Chapters: 10
Summary: “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?
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 70,804
Chapters: 19
Series: Part 1 of The Short n' Sweet World
Summary: Colin Bridgerton is a jet-setting 28-year-old travel writer and social media influencer. He’s constantly moving from place to place and person to person. That’s the way he likes it. Everything changes when a skiing accident has him stuck back in London in his childhood home for several months while he recovers. One good thing about being home, however, is his proximity to Penelope Featherington. They’ve been good friends for years, but this newfound consistency of his presence and communication between them brings some feelings that have been simmering for a long time finally to the surface.
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 52,666
Chapters: 10
Collection: My honeybee come get this Polin Discord
Summary: Can two people really find love on a reality tv show?
Penelope Featherington certainly hopes so -- at least, she thinks she does.
Tasked with managing socialite and travel Instagrammer Colin Bridgerton's appearance on the show, Pen is determined to do whatever it takes to make sure he wins the heart of the show's lead, Marina Thompson. However, will lines become blurred as Pen is forced to manipulate a love story when her old feelings for Colin start to resurface?
Author: jentothenuh
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 22,001
Chapters: 5
Summary: "Do you need something, Penelope?"
"I need you to divorce me."
After two years of a marriage arranged by their families, Penelope knows she does not make Colin happy. So she suggests a plan to ensure freedom for the both of them. Will Colin be able to break free from his oblivion and realize what he stands to lose?
A Gentleman's Guide to Planning the Perfect Romantic Getaway
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 94,687
Chapters: 14
Summary: Colin Bridgerton is a rather popular travel influencer on Instagram and contributor to GQ magazine. He goes home for the holidays to visit his family after a particularly long stretch abroad. Somehow, he ends up going on an all-expenses paid trip to a little slice of heaven in the Caribbean with his best friend, Penelope Featherington. He’s not used to traveling with another person, but he finds himself rather looking forward to the time away with her even if he’s not sure what to expect. He expects it will all go according to plan. What could possibly go wrong when embarking on a trip with your best friend after all?
Penelope works in a junior position at a publishing house in London, scraping her way financially through young adulthood. She’s also doing her best to get over her decade plus long infatuation with her best friend Eloise Bridgerton’s older brother Colin. Somehow, she finds herself agreeing to accompany him on a trip to Turks and Caicos after the Christmas holiday. She doesn’t know how she’ll manage it, but Penelope is determined to ensure this trip goes smoothly and that she doesn’t let her heart get ahead of her brain. She and Colin will never be together romantically. Not in a million years.
Author: usuallysunny
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 9,746
Chapters: 2
Summary: “I am going to make this right, Pen, because I was made to be your husband… and I cannot live in a world where I am not.”
On the night of his wedding, a despondent Colin Bridgerton makes a reckless wish.
Now he is stuck in a race against time, floundering in a world he does not recognise, determined to get back to the life and love he has lost.
Author: ktbeets
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 14,848
Chapters: 3
Summary: Penelope's office job is boring and unfulfilling. To pass the time, she spends her days writing explicit fanfiction and ogling her co-worker Colin. However, things are about to get a lot more interesting when a sensitive document makes its way into the wrong hands.
i tried your mouth & I can't come back
Author: MelikaElena
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 15,725
Chapters: 5
Series: Part 1 of Dedicated Side C (&P)
Summary: Cressida did a cute little half shrug, giggling. “Just here with my boyfriend, Cade. He insisted on sweeping me away to Paris for the weekend. And you? Here all by yourself?”
Oh, it was so tempting to lie, but Penelope knew better.
“Ah, there you are.”
For a moment, Penelope wondered if she’d heard those words only in her head, but there he was.
He was everything handsome men were supposed to be, Penelope thought. Tall, broad-shouldered, with a sharp jaw evenly covered in immaculate stubble, a white-toothed smile, perfectly tousled dark hair, and bright green eyes.
“Penelope,” Cressida gaped. “Who is this?”
“Oh, you know Pen?” The man asked smoothly, all polite surprise. And seamlessly calling her by a nickname? He was good. “I’m her boyfriend, Colin.”
---
A vacation is just what an over-worked Penelope needs. Running into her childhood bully is the last thing she needs. And while she doesn’t NEED to be rescued by a handsome stranger, she certainly won’t turn him away, especially when he poses for a romantic photo & gives Penelope the best kiss of her life.
It's just a harmless vacation crush and she's never going to see the charismatic Colin ever again... or is she?
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 140,795
Chapters: 26
Summary: Penelope Featherington has a drunken one-night stand with her best friend, Colin Bridgerton, and there are major consequences. They now have to figure out how to mend the pieces of their broken friendship all while navigating this complicated and life-changing journey they've found themselves on together.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 200,825
Chapters: 29
Summary: 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.
--
Or, the one where Penelope and Colin decide to make a baby “as friends.”
it's just that i'll always choose you
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 45,720
Chapters: 7
Summary: 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.
just as one beat ends, another starts
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 29,512
Chapters: 4
Summary: Penelope is twelve when she starts seeing colors differently. When she realizes that not only can Colin see the change, but he's the cause of her new ability, they tumble into an intimacy neither are prepared for. Growing up with the love of her life as a foregone conclusion is not the easiest path, especially since resisting him becomes increasingly difficult and no matter how much she seems to age, she's still too young.
The more they fall in love, the more wrapped up in each other they become and Penelope starts to wonder how far it can all go.
Author: Swanstories
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: Complete
Words: 6,903
Chapters: 4
Summary: “So Penelope, you’ve kissed the most Bridgertons here. Who’s the best?”
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 87,628
Chapters: 11
Summary: 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.
--
Or, the one where Penelope is on OnlyFans.
Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 17,800
Chapters: 2
Summary: Giggling, Pen relaxes against his body. Once again, he marvels at how well they fit together. “A movie sounds great, Colin. What are we watching?”
“You’ll see…” he says as he hits play.
The screen starts out black. Then, Colin’s voice from just over ten years ago. “Pen, if you’re nervous, we don’t have to do this. It’s okay.”
“It was my idea, wasn’t it?” Pen’s younger voice shakes a bit, but she sounds determined.
Current-day Penelope gasps and whirls around. “Colin, you didn’t! How did you find it?”
Colin smirks and pauses the video.
Shortly after they had gotten engaged, Pen had called him late one night, tipsy. She’d had a brilliant idea—to record their first time having sex.
OR
The one where Colin and Penelope make a sex tape of their first time, and watch it together on their tenth anniversary.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 17,124
Chapters: 3
Summary: This story picks up at the end of Season 3, Episode 7, just after the Queen interrupted Colin's and Penelope's wedding reception. The prospect of her continuing Lady Whistledown and continuing to put herself in danger loomed too large for Colin and he informed her that he would be spending their wedding night on the sofa (or settee) at their new marital home. See how Colin's resolve is weakened and the two of them come together instead of spending the night apart.
Author: Allthatwehaveshared
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 20,702
Chapters: 8
Summary: Coming back from Number Five, the situation looked grim indeed. The last letters from Colin had been received six weeks ago. It was so unlike him. Penelope was convinced something was wrong. Very wrong. Although she was well aware of the dangers of travelling to war-torn countries, to say nothing of the voyage across the temperamental Channel, she made a rather rash decision to pack her bag and book a passage from London to Bordeaux, Colin’s last known location.
But will she find what she was looking for?
One of Me Is Cute, But Two Though?
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 129,202
Chapters: 19
Series: Part 2 of The Short n' Sweet World
Summary: Initially brought together by a chain of events set off by a skiing accident, Colin and Penelope Bridgerton are now married and blissfully in love. Two years after the wedding, the young couple have some new beginnings to navigate. Alongside them throughout their journey are the two strong, motherly figures in their lives: Violet Bridgerton and Agatha Danbury. Changes are in store for all four of them in the coming year and they'll need to come together and support each other along the way.
--
This is a follow-up fic to Five Feet To Be Exact and picks up a few years after the epilogue. I don’t think you have to read the first one necessarily to follow along, but I’d definitely recommend it!
Author: rach_elle619
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 33,180
Chapters: 6
Summary: Modern AU. Colin invites Penelope to be his plus one at Benedict's wedding, and the pair work through their relationship. Told in flashbacks, present day, and a few flashforwards, the story examines the big and little moments that led Penelope and Colin to becoming a couple.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 77,952
Chapters: 11
Summary: Penelope Featherington finds herself spending the pandemic lockdown at Aubrey Hall with a good number of the Bridgerton clan gathered. There's one Bridgerton that she isn't planning on seeing-- her best friend Eloise's older brother Colin. They used to be friends--very close friends. But now, they're more like strangers and she harbors a good amount of bitterness towards him. Sure enough, though, Colin Bridgerton is staying at Aubrey Hall too and she's forced to interact with him. Can Penelope and Colin repair their friendship? And can they possibly find maybe a little more for themselves than friendship along the way?
Penelope and Colin's Girly Weekend
Author: Jerrypie17
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: Complete
Words: 17,494
Chapters: 8
Summary: When Eloise can't make it to Paris for Penelope's birthday weekend, who better to pinch hit than Colin Bridgerton?
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 34,480
Chapters: 6
Event: New Year's Polin 2025
Summary: Weddings. So many weddings.
And at each one, Penelope, a traveling journalist, and Colin, a traveling social media influencer, find each other again.
As they reconnect after many years, they revisit their past with one another, and try to determine whether or not either one of them are ready to stop flying away.
Author: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,668
Chapters: 1
Summary: There's something new to Penelope these days. Something in her eyes, maybe, or her skin. A clarity; clarity built by love and light and a life built with the man she has loved since childhood.
There is a visible clarity caused by endless pleasure, the pleasure of partnership and partnering... and frankly, yes, Penelope can see it reflected back at her when she takes herself in at the looking glass.
She can see it in the double takes as she and Colin enter balls now.
But she can see it most in the way Colin's eyes shine over every time she enters a room. The way he swallows, the way he grips his chest sometimes as if the feeling is attempting escape.
And when it is particularly shocking to him, when she has really pleased him, in the way her husband drops to his knees.
As he does in this moment.
"You... are..." he shakes his head in incredulity as she approaches.
Is it the red? They never get to wear red.
AKA: Colin and Pen get to wear red because they are hosting a Christmas party, which inexplicably turns them on.
Author: Stillpink
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 23,639
Chapters: 12
Summary: When Colin awakens, the world as he knows it has changed.
Author: Sea_Dragonfly
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 68,948
Chapters: 24
Summary: “Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.
Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.
Penelope was ruined.
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 46,219
Chapters: 12
Summary: After Penelope falls out with Eloise over her popular gossip blog, all the Bridgertons cut contact with her. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to her, but after a few months of wallowing, Penelope moves to Scotland and buys a book shop and gets on with her life. It turns out she can live without the Bridgertons and she's happy enough with the new life she's cobbled together. No one knows anything about her here and that's how she likes it: complete and total separation from her life back in London and her old online persona.
That is, until she spots Colin Bridgerton at the coffee shop next door.
searching for a trail to follow again
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 75,752
Chapters: 15
Summary: Penelope disappears, seemingly finished with the Bridgertons and Colin has a choice to make: let his own life slowly unravel or find her.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 61,485
Chapters: 9
Summary: The Bridgertons are all jetting off to the Scottish Highlands for Christmas and Penelope Featherington is coming with them this year. She's a close family friend and gets along famously with each and every member (young and old) with one significant exception-- the third eldest son, Colin Bridgerton. They may have been best friends as children, but now, in their mid and late twenties, they couldn't be further from friends. These days they can't even be in the same room with one another without trading verbal jabs that intensify steadily until someone literally has to pull them apart. After a lot of deliberation, though, Penelope accepts Violet's invitation despite this fact. She figures they'll be staying in a huge house and there will be a crowd of other people to distract herself with. What she can't possibly know, however, is that the storm of the century and a series of unforeseen events are going to make that house and that crowd much, much smaller.
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 17,729
Chapters: 3
Summary: “You’re so soft.” He rubs her belly, fingers grazing, and the fire in Penelope’s stomach roars. “I love how you feel here. Like satin.” His voice is hushed, almost awed.
“Are you this soft everywhere, Pen?”
Her breath hitches in her throat. She doesn’t dare exhale.
She waits in the dark silence, the only sound her heartbeat in her ears.
“C-can I feel?”
Penelope and Colin fool around whilst hungover at Aubrey Hall, and turn their relationship upside down
Author: Sea_Dragonfly, read by theyarnmaidstale
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Length: 2 hours, 24 minutes - (22,383 words)
Chapters: 4
Summary: 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.
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Unspecified
Status: Complete
Words: 34,130
Chapters: 8
Summary: Penelope Featherington hadn't meant for anyone to see the hastily scribbled note where she listed her desired requirements of a husband. When she accidentally leaves the note in a flower bed outside the modiste, she is frantic to recover it the next day. Luckily, she finds it ... only to discover someone has replied.
Meanwhile, Colin Bridgerton is apathetic about the prospects of another marriage mart season in the ton; but when he discovers an intriguing note dropped by an anonymous, clever gentlewoman, the idea of replying to her suddenly breathes a bit more excitement into his life.
Author: Lilyofthevolume
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 37,400
Chapters: 11
Series: Part 1 of Partners. Lovers. Friends
Summary: Colin insists on escorting Penelope to Aubrey Hall for Christmas, even though that's the last place she wants to be. She is determined to rid herself of the Bridgertons for good and find her happiness elsewhere. However, when a carriage accident and the nastiest snow storm in years finds them trapped at a roadside Inn unchaperoned more than one secret may be revealed.
Author: writergirl8
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 102,805
Chapters: 13
Summary: 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.
Author: lixabiz, wantisamlindyla
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 86,366
Chapters: 20
Summary: “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.”
The one in which Colin slowly, inadvertently, inevitably becomes Penelope’s sugar daddy.
Author: rach_elle619
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 74,779
Chapters: 19
Summary: This is my idea for how a Polin-centered Season 3 could work, adapting the book as much as possible. Expect both very romantic Colin, self-denying Penelope, and supportive Bridgertons. If you're here for smut, proceed to chapters 13 and 16 (although chapter 9 dips its toes in the smut waters, somewhat, too). Enjoy!
(Just a head's up - I wrote this before the Season 3 synopsis was released, so you won't see any Colin teaching Penelope confidence in this one)
Sweeter Than The Best You've Ever Had
Author: writergirl8
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 45,144
Chapters: 5
Series: Part 2 of Shatter
Summary: The facts are simple: he, Colin Bridgerton, is finally with the great love of his life. He is dating his best friend since childhood, steamy romance writer Penelope Featherington. Penelope is known for her detailed love scenes and her sex positive characters. And every time they have had sex, New York Times best selling romance author Penelope Featherington has faked her orgasm.
Fuck.
Author: JJJJ12
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 26,819
Chapters: 5
Series: Part 1 of Lemon Drops and Torrid Thoughts
Summary: Penelope and Colin haven't been friends in six years. Not after his cruel words. Not after her personal attack in the aftermath. Hate seems to come easy for the two of them, the simplest alternative to a once-special friendship.
There's nothing Colin loves more than goading Pen into a fight. And if she's going to be a brat about it? Well, then he's going to have to teach her a lesson.
Over, and over, and over again.
AKA the one where lemon desserts keep leading to depravity in the various Bridgerton homes.
Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 47,302
Chapters: 6
Event: New Year's Polin 2025
Summary: Penelope Featherington's first taste of champagne changes her life forever.
After that, champagne plays a role in multiple important events in Penelope's life.
OR
Six times that Penelope and Colin drink champagne.
Author: Stillpink
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 89,735
Chapters: 17
Summary: Penelope is an innocent, but her experiences as Lady Whistledown teach her that she has much to learn about what happens between men and women behind closed doors. Fortunately, she has a friend willing to teach her all she wishes to know.
It all seems so simple...until Colin Bridgerton uncovers her plan.
Author: nojamhands
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 21,269
Chapters: 8
Summary: “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.”
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OR
Colin 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.
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 18,694
Chapters: 3
Summary: “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.”
OR
Penelope needs to learn to give up control. Colin thinks he has the perfect solution
Author: lixabiz
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 55, 166
Chapters: 11
Summary: 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.
Author: emdashwrites
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 35,235
Chapters: 9
Series: Part 1 of Unhinged: Bridgerton textfic AU
Summary: Pen's not doing well on the apps. Colin offers to help. It goes well for her and he hates it. God, Colin just wants to be normal about Penelope. He's trying really hard to be normal about Penelope, just, SO normal. It is becoming increasingly clear that he simply cannot be normal about Penelope. It will take the power of the Bridgerton sibling group chat (and all its related splinter chats) to figure out what to do.
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Modern AU textfic, Colin is the most down bad idiot in the universe and Penelope is the funniest woman on earth.
Author: applepuffsilver, writergirl8
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 29,767
Chapters: 5
Summary: “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.
where the lovelight gleams (a christmas story)
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 38,050
Chapters: 7
Summary: Colin is utterly confused when he returns home for Christmas to find that Penelope is missing from the family holiday for the first time in a decade. Instead, she's spending tine with a new love interest -- a devastating discovery, especially as he realizes that he never really dreamed of spending the holiday without her.
Wrong Number - A very merry advent text fic
Author: Ishipthis, TheShayBensons
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 37,764+
Chapters: 25
Summary: Tis the season for an advent text fic! Join us for twenty-four days of fun!
Penelope gets a breakup text from an unknown number, (spoiler alert, it's Colin) and absolute chaos ensues.
Please note: Word count is low due to the story being told in screenshots of texts
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 11,001
Chapters: 2
Summary: “I fucking knew it.”
Colin’s soul actually leaves his body. “P-Pen,” he chokes, but she presents him with a wide smile, and she is so beautiful his heart swells and his words are snatched out of his mouth. What was he going to fucking say anyway? No, I’m not in love with you, I swear? This boner is platonic?
“You’re into Alfred, aren’t you?” she asks, her eyes flashing wickedly.
Penelope finds out Colin has a thing for Alfred, and suggests he joins them
Author: clevelandy
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 31,403
Chapters: 3
Collection: Polinsanity Discord Secret Santa Exchange 2024
Summary: “It’s just, like, a twelve-hour drive. It’s not even that bad.”
“That’s extremely bad. Why aren’t you flying?”
“Because tickets are insane.”
“Aren’t you rich?”
He ignored that. “It’ll be fun! Just you and me? On the road? Seeing some of America’s greatest sights?”
“Like what? Indiana?”
“Like… like Chicago!”
Or, Colin needs a date to a wedding on Christmas Eve. Penelope has nothing better to do.
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