Holly's Polin FanFiction Recommendations

Strangers

This is based off of their relationship status at the BEGINNING of the fic.

creep!

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.

drown in you

Author: unsavorablefavors

Time Period: Modern

Rating: Mature

Status: One Shot

Words: 10,551

Chapters: 1

Collection: Polin Week 2025

Summary: All Penelope Featherington wanted to do was do some laps at the local pool.

Her plans take a dramatic turn when she nearly drowns in a way she could only describe as 'incredibly humiliating.'

Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine the beautiful stranger who saved her to shake up her day for the better.

...or Colin and Penelope's wonderful day out, a strangers to lovers AU

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?

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.”

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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?

stud country

Author: applepuffsilver

Time Period: Modern

Rating: Explicit

Status: One Shot

Words: 17,853

Chapters: 1

Collection: Polin Written In Stone

Summary: “Woah there,” he says softly, one hand darting out to cup the bottom of her glass, the other softly encircling her wrist. “Careful, Penelope.”

He says her name with a British accent but there is something American in the intonation, the way he goes up at the end. It is something Penelope has found herself doing from time to time here, her voice automatically mimicking those around her; she thought it signaled a certain weakness of character, as though she knows herself so little that even her voice cannot hold onto itself.

But from him it just sounds… right.

She likes how he says her name with such familiarity, even though they haven’t been introduced yet. He says it as if they’ve known each other for years.

“This is Colin, obviously,” Eloise says and Penelope nods, unable to speak. He is tall and lithe and his hair falls in dark waves the same colour as Eloise’s. He’s wearing a white T-shirt tucked into high-waisted blue jeans, tan leather cowboy boots and there is a white Stetson perched atop his curls.

OR - Penelope goes line dancing with her new friend and her brother