This is based off of their relationship status at the BEGINNING of the fic.
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.
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Penelope and Colin in Ancient Greece — a familiar tale of love and woe.
Author: nojamhands
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 1,770
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Pen?” He peeked around the statue, a concerned look on his face. “Are you quite well?”
She let out a mirthless laugh. “I can assuredly say I have had better evenings, Mr. Bridgerton, no thanks to you.”
Colin reeled back slightly, her tone and use of such formality feeling like a slap to the face. “What can you mean? Has something happened?”
Penelope looked up at him, meeting his kind gaze with a withering stare. “I never asked you to court me, you know. Despite having had numerous opportunities to insist upon it, given your penchant for impropriety when it comes to our ‘friendship.’” She spat out the last word like it was poison upon her tongue. “That was my mistake, I suppose—assuming you had the best of intentions. Though perhaps that’s not quite true. How could you have anything but the best, most pure of intentions when it comes to poor, little Penelope Featherington? Who you could not even dream of courting in your wildest fantasies? No, the wildest fantasies of that vile rake, Mr. Fife, whose fantasies are likely so untenable they would make even the viscount blush.”
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Penelope and Colin have a little confrontation after she overhears him at the Featherington ball in S2
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: 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: everlarktoast
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 14,924
Chapters: 1
Summary: “This is Penelope. She moved into the house across the way. She’s allergic to nuts, but she has her EpiPen.”
Five times Bridgertons decide to stop eating nuts, and the time Colin realizes he’d given them up a long time ago.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 19,803
Chapters: 1
Summary: The one where the mistletoe helps Colin “get some vision, bro.”
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.
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Or, the one where Penelope and Colin decide to make a baby “as friends.”
Author: LightLeadingMe
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 5,914
Chapters: 1
Summary: After the Hearts and Flowers Ball, Penelope waits for Colin to return from visiting Marina at Romney Hall.
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: 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, 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.