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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: wantisamlindyla
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 2,365
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2023
Summary: It was not unusual for a married woman to discreetly take a lover. But for some reason, Lady Penelope de Ros continued to refuse Colin access to her delectable body.
And Colin has finally run out of patience.
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: 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.”
OR
Penelope and Colin have a little confrontation after she overhears him at the Featherington ball in S2
Author: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 45,726
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written in Stone
Summary: He's been gone too long.
It always hits him like this, it always seems to fall over him all at once. When intricate buildings and foreign cuisine and strangers’ faces are no longer endless and exciting new beauty but instead reminders of home.
The walls here remind him of the hall where the debutants make their attempted marks. The stairs up to the gallery are carpeted, and as the soles of his boots lay upon each one, the give sends him right back to the steps at Bridgerton House. The light is even shining similarly to how it does back in England, and perhaps the sun is the same everywhere but he never seems to notice that until the pain of distance becomes ineludible.
Yes, he feels it right behind his heart, in the way he swallows more thickly as he wakes now. It’s in each breath, as if the air here just isn't quite right…
That woman’s hair is so much like…
Christ.
It is endless.
It is time to go home.
He won't, though. Not for a while. Never does.
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: usuallysunny
Time Period: Regency
Rating: General
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,371
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Thank you. For all your kindness. If I secure a proposal, it will be because of you.”
She turns from him and takes one step before his hand darts out to catch hers.
“Please do not leave,” he murmurs, thumb gently tracing the inside of her wrist, feeling her pulse leap under his touch, “not yet. There is still so much I need to say.”
.....
Colin’s POV of the willow scene—and beyond.
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.
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.
--
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: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,773
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Week 2025
Summary: Colin and Penelope's wedding cake was enormous, and thanks to Queen Charlotte, no one ate it.
What do you do when you have to finish a five foot wedding cake by yourself?
And most importantly, do babies really come from cake?
OR
The early days of Colin and Penelope's marriage, and the saga of their wedding cake.
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: 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: 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.
Art by Calla.
Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Regency
Rating: General
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,215
Chapters: 1
Summary: Edmund Bridgerton sees a little redheaded girl fall into a mud puddle at Hyde Park. Little does he know that she's his future daughter-in-law.
A fluffy oneshot where Edmund meets Penelope before the events of the main series.
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?
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: maxmayfield
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,568
Chapters: 1
Summary: “I was certainly a fool,” Colin says. “I lived my formative years in the presence of my parents’ undeniable love. I knew my match with Marina did not compare, and still, I rendered her a proposal. It is quite astounding to consider now.”
“I am so sorry that your first love treated you with such cruelty,” Penelope says, cradling his fingers. “I am very grateful to be your second love, so that I may ensure you always feel loved in return.”
In the early days of their marriage, Colin and Penelope receive a congratulatory letter from Marina. It prompts some reflection on the girls he touched before his wife, and the women that have shaped his life.
Mrs. Bridgerton, We Can Do Whatever We Like
Author: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 2,012
Chapters: 1
Summary: After that kiss with Penelope in the Featherington garden it became completely unbearable to ignore.
That's what was missing.
Her.
Penelope.
Now she is his wife. And it is almost entirely impossible to describe the magnitude of difference between what he experienced before to what he has experienced with her."
Someone on Tumblr mentioned that Colin "Boob Man" Bridgerton would want to Titty Fuck. They were right. This is for that person, whoever they are. Sorry I'll never find that post again!!
In other words, Colin's obsession with Penelope's wonderful... personality... was enough to get me back into writing after five years.
Author: Fifi2930
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 7,300
Chapters: 1
Summary: Colin is still reeling from Pen's pregnancy reveal when a familiar guilt begins causing him nightmares. Angsty fluff/smut.
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: StarsOverSunrays
Time Period: Regency
Rating: General
Status: One Shot
Words: 10,373
Chapters: 1
Summary: One seemingly normal afternoon, blissfully married Colin and Penelope Bridgerton find the most peculiar guests on their doorstep.
Themselves.
(or: What if book! Polin and series! Polin got to have a nice little chat over some tea?)
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?
Author: Lilyofthevolume
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 5,822
Chapters: 1
Summary: Colin helps Penelope relax after a long day of sorting through issues with the Featherington estate.
Perspective (or A Theory on Seeing Things in Light, Old or New)
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 8,896
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: Alfred looks over to see another one of those loose-cravat Englishmen standing by the statue – really, bending over to look at it upside down is a better descriptor. His brown hair is decidedly too long, flopping messily over as he straightens back up slightly, his eyes still fixed on the statue.
“Cupid and Psyche,” the man (really, Jesus, he is so young; boy is a better word for him) says, and he looks over to Alfred, eyebrows raised. “Incredible, isn’t it?”
Art by Sam.
Author: everlarktoast
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 27,535
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: One statue in particular catches his eye. It is displayed proudly in the center of a bed of flowers, clearly favored by the Queen. And, well, Colin can see why.
She is titled Psyche Incarnate.
She is exactly how a woman ought to be.
…
In which Penelope poses nude for a statue and drives Colin to the brink of insanity.
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: 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: 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: Lilyofthevolume
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,272
Chapters: 1
Summary: Penelope is seething after Colin tries to charm her with comments on her dress and declarations of missing her. She goes to the garden to cool down, only to find that she isn't the only one left unsatisfied by their last encounter.
Author: usuallysunny
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 1,351
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Thank you,” she whispers into the moonlight, her voice barely audible over the pounding of his own heart.
She turns to flee — and his hand darts out without his permission.
He doesn’t plan on wrapping his fingers around her wrist and pulling her right back to him.
He doesn’t plan on kissing her again.
But he does both anyway.
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: 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)
Author: Katie_500
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,721
Chapters: 1
Summary: Penelope unintentionally discovers just how enlightening Colin’s special tea can be
Or
Colin and Pen get high, regency style
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: usuallysunny
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 2,202
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Pen,” he husks, pupils blown to black, “let’s make a baby.”
In which Colin returns home drunk from the tavern and shares his desire to procreate - only for Penelope to confess they already have.
Author: ninjamanda
Time Period: Regency
Rating: General
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,889
Chapters: 1
Summary: Eloise and Penelope decide to try Colin's Grecian tea one day...
Chaos ensues
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.
Author: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,041
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Ah, the gentleman is of discerning taste, I see. She is a rare jewel indeed.” Madame Delacroix’s voice is a seductive purr in Colin’s ear.
“Why does she cover her face?”
“She is a lady of the Ton, in the possession of a most particular talent indeed. If her identity were to be discovered, she would be ruined.”
“And what is this particular gift of hers?”
Madame Delacroix lowers her voice conspiratorially. “She will bring delight to the gentleman who has a palette for the finer things. A man who appreciates the nectar a woman can produce when excited. But,” she adds, one eyebrow raised, “I must warn you, Lady Whistledown is most demanding."
OR
Colin visits a brothel to try to get over Penelope, and finds a sex worker who reminds him of his best friend... she just happens to have a very particular set of skills...
Author: nojamhands
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 1,620
Chapters: 1
Summary: "I would never dream of courting Penelope Featherington. Not in your wildest fantasies, Fife."
The moment the words left his lips, he regretted them. "I feel I must clarify."
Colin immediately works to make right his terrible wrong.
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