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Bonded in Friendship, Bonded in Love
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 49,703
Chapters: 9/16
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: Colin Bridgerton returns home from three years’ worth of traveling to find that everything and everyone in the Ton is just the same as the way he left them. At least, that is what seems to be the case until he attends the first ball of the season at Lady Danbury’s estate and reunites with his dear friend and most consistent correspondent, Penelope Featherington. It is not long into their first dance that the rug is pulled from beneath both of their feet and everything, quite literally everything, between them changes.
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Or, Colin is an Alpha, Penelope might not really be a Beta, and they are bonded in a way that defies logic and precedence.
Author: unsavorablefavors
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 207,991
Chapters: 29/31
Summary: Colin Bridgerton had it all: a beautiful wife, four beautiful children, and a fulfilling career.
Saying he’s content is an understatement; he loves this life.
That is until he’s yanked from this reality and finds himself in the hospital, awakening from a coma.
It turns out he is not married and never has been. Penelope’s just his friend, his children don’t exist, and his perfect job is merely a pipe dream.
On a journey of rehabilitation, self-discovery, and grief, Colin must come to terms with the life he has and build it into the one that he dreamed of.
…trying to convince the girl he’s known as his wife of their wonderful life together shouldn’t be too tricky, right?
cards on the table (mine play out like fools in a fable)
Author: uneventfulhouses
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 28,228
Chapters: 2
Summary: It struck him as odd that he didn’t hear from her, not even once, the entire time he had been away; he had written to her, letter after letter, all that he had seen while he was away like he had done on his first tour, but every letter had gone unanswered.
Part of him could have given up, but there was a feeling in him that he should not. So, he continued writing. He told her everything he could, and asked after her health, her wellbeing, her happiness. He wrote promises that if he had done something wrong, he could work to rectify it. It would not do to have a rift in their friendship. It was much too important to him.
In the back of this carriage, he wonders about his friend, with her curling red hair and her rosy cheeks. He hopes that she is well.
He hopes—
Well, he isn’t sure what he hopes. Something must have occupied her time for the off-season, had taken away from her quills and her paper, had taken her away from him.
An odd thought, he thinks. She isn’t his, to begin with. She is his friend. And still, there is something so bothersome about not hearing from her. It was common to feel unsettled about not hearing from one’s friend, of that, he is sure.
Author: applepuffsiver
Time Period: Medieval
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 18,955
Chapters: 3/12
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: She made a little humming noise. “I am afraid, Sir Knight, that this is one danger you cannot wave your sword at. There is no escaping my marriage.”
“Oh. That. Marriage is no danger.”
She gave him a look of such sharpness that he felt himself wither. “You are a man. You do not have the first idea of the dangers marriage entails for women.” Her chin trembled though she held it aloft. “And you are a Knight Protector — you are not permitted to marry until after I am wed.”
He opened his mouth to retort — but closed it quickly. She was, he supposed, right. In fact he could not imagine someone less suited to offer counsel on the subject than himself.
“What is it that you fear?” he asked.
She took a deep breath. “Cruelty. Neglect. Loneliness. A life spent in solitude and uselessness, my mind slowly disintegrating through lack of exertion. There is so much world out here, Colin, and I shall only ever see one tiny patch of it. I fear dying after a life only half-lived. I have dreams and ambitions and they shall never, ever be realised. So while I am able, I mean to live.”
OR: the Adventures of Princess Penelope and Sir Colin, her Knight Protector!
Author: everlarktoast
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 20,119
Chapters: 2/3
Collection: Polin 2025
Summary: Two strangers. One room. Fifty days. No stimuli. £5 million.
A desperate Penelope enters a study to win £5 million. All she has to do is stay in a stark-white, nearly empty room for fifty days with another person. No technology, no books, no games, no anything. Nothing but a bed, a bathroom, and a person she’s never met for almost two months.
It seems easy enough, until she steps out of the elevator and sees that her partner is anything but a stranger, and this study is anything but ordinary.
Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Multiple Time Periods
Rating: Mature
Status: In Progress
Words: 3,838
Chapters: 1/9
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: “Are we in love in every universe, Pen?”
Colin Bridgerton has always been a starry-eyed dreamer, and Penelope Bridgerton has always been the practical one. So when Colin asks her if they are in love in every universe, Penelope is skeptical. After all, having Colin's love feels like a miracle. How could any other Colin love any other Penelope, even if the multiverse is real?
When Penelope wakes up with another Colin in her bed, it's time for her to confront her insecurities, and to find out whether her Colin is right--if they really are in love in every universe.
OR
We've got another Modern Colin/Regency Colin body swap, y'all!
Author: applepuffsilver, missparker
Time Period: 1900's
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 19,593
Chapters: 3/8
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: “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
Author: ususallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 81,796
Chapters: 20/?
Summary: Penelope’s son is four years old when he develops his first crush.
She can’t exactly blame him.
When she meets the girl’s daddy, she falls a little in love too.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 77,806
Chapters: 10/11
Summary: Penelope Featherington is on holiday celebrating her birthday with one of her best friends in literal paradise. All of these things should add up to her spending the week with a beaming smile plastered on her face and having the absolute time of her life. Instead, though, she starts off the trip fixated on the milestone-nature of this particular birthday and one life milestone that she wishes she’d already checked off by this point. Quietly resigned to ringing in her birthday in a few days’ time without making any further progress, Penelope is entirely unprepared for a very helpful offer from her best friend who just also happens to be the person she’d spent years previously hopelessly crushing on.
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Or, the one where Colin takes Penelope’s virginity “as a friend.”
Author: nojamhands
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: In Progress
Words: 41,461
Chapters: 3/6
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: “And it's all in how you mix the two
And it starts just where the light exists
It's a feeling that you cannot miss
It burns a hole through everyone that feels it.”
— The Used, Blue & Yellow
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Best friends Colin and Penelope fall in love as teenagers, then find themselves in a precarious situation that puts both of their futures in jeopardy and blows up both of their families. How will they deal with the fallout and carve their own paths, all while trying to balance normal adolescence and young adulthood?
Author: HP13_writes
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: In Progress
Words: 21,269
Chapters: 2/9
Series: Part 1 of Wooing Miss Featherington
Summary: His heart was hammering at a rapid pace. His palms were clammy and his cheeks were flushed. There was a feeling of tightness around his heart and a stirring deep in his belly. Was this what love felt like? Colin had turned eleven years old just two days ago. There was no way this could be love. Eleven year old boys were much too young to fall in love. In fact, based on the examples of his older brothers, even fifteen and seventeen year old boys were too young to fall in love.
His brothers returned to find him still sitting in the grass, a bemused smile on his face, and covered in mud. Anthony rode off to grab Colin’s horse who had wandered off to a nearby pond, while Benedict teased him mercilessly for the state of his clothing. Colin didn’t care though, because today he had met Penelope Featherington, and while he didn’t understand what precisely that meant yet, he could feel the profundity of it. He was certain that meeting Penelope Featherington that day was the greatest birthday gift he would ever receive in his whole life.
or
The one where Colin is the one with the lifelong crush.
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