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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: unsavorablefavors
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 133,281
Chapters: 24/31
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?
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.
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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: 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: 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.
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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?
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: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 70,804
Chapters: 19
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: 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: ususallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 61,587
Chapters: 15/?
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: 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: 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: 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: uneventfulhouses
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 50,118
Chapters: 1
Summary: “Colin!” Penelope shouts, her face lighting up with a smile that had to be a million or two watts, rivaling the brightness of the sun.
“Pen,” he says, feeling some kind of weight drop from his shoulders, replaced by her when she jumps on him. Her arms wind around his neck and instinctively, he catches her, one hand on the back of her thigh and the other pressed against her lower back.
“Fuck, I missed you,” she breathes.
It’s exactly the homecoming he’d wished for. His heart takes off in his chest. She smells like vanilla and lavender, and her whole body is warm and wrapped around him, and he wonders if maybe they could stay like this for the rest of their lives, because God, he’s missed her, too.
With his face buried in her neck, Colin murmurs, “Yeah, me, too.” Neither of them really let go, and he doesn’t want to read into it that much because—he doesn’t even know. Because he’s scared, maybe. Probably. Because he doesn't understand it and doesn’t want to. Because for all his exploration of caves and canyons, he isn’t sure he’s ready for whatever he’d find the second he reads the text of their friendship and discovers something hidden between the lines.
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: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 45,682
Chapters: 8/20
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.”
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.
your skin (oh yeah, your skin and bones)
Author: uneventfulhouses
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 43,633
Chapters: 4/10
Summary: Once Eloise leaves Colin's room, Penelope and Colin's proximity changes its tone; maybe it’s all in Penelope’s head, but there’s an intimacy here as she burrows into Colin’s naked chest, like it’s where she belongs. It feels like she does. It feels like he’s supposed to hold her like this, captivate her with the heat of his flesh, the depths of his breaths, and the strength of his hold. It feels a little like home, and it devastates her to think like that.
But this is what she’s missed the most. These unparalleled moments where there are no guards or boundaries or weirdness. The parts of him that make her feel the softest, when he’s affectionate with her through touch, like yes, he missed her as in her personality, but also her as in the feeling of her skin and the softness of her hair, because she’s missed those things from him, too. The quiet of his voice as he speaks only to her, the caress of his fingers when he tries to get her attention, the warmth of him when he invites her into his bed so he can hold her like this.
or; Penelope and Colin are forced to be touching at all times.
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: 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: 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: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 36,407
Chapters: 1
Series: Chapter 2 of 12 Days of Polin Christmas
Summary: It was easier this time. She was certain it would not happen again. She was absolutely certain that if she simply kept him away, kept them apart, that if she separated her life with Alfred from her life with Colin then he wouldn’t manage to get his hands on this one. Because she actually likes Al, because it feels like it could work this time; because he is kind and understanding and handsome and she could actually be happy if Colin would allow her to keep him.
But it never takes much. Colin Bridgerton has caused her to lose every single boyfriend she has ever had.
Every. Single. One.
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.
*
Modern AU textfic, Colin is the most down bad idiot in the universe and Penelope is the funniest woman on earth.
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?
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: 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, 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: 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: 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: 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.”
—
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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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.
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: 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: 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.
Author: Coeur_de_Coeurs, W_M_N
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 13,121
Chapters: 1
Series: Part 1 of For Two
Summary: So, maybe he accidentally told his parents that they were a couple, its not that big of a deal. I mean, what's a little bed sharing between best friends during the holidays?
Author: writingandrelaxing
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 12,556
Chapters: 1
Summary: Freezing temperatures. No Power. An out of town roommate. No place to go to escape her flat. The night wasn't off to a great start. But things begin to look up when Colin, Penelope's close friend and long time crush, shows up at her door, unexpectedly returned from his most recent trip abroad. Colin is determined to turn the night around, but Penelope can't help but wonder if his actions are borne of friendship or something more.
Author: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: In Progress
Words: 11,710
Chapters: 2/6
Summary: "She had way too much tonight. And he knew she would, she does this every time a guy breaks her heart. Or her ego, maybe. Her heart never really seems in it, which is confusing to him since Penelope does just about everything heart-first.
Except dating.
He wonders if that has something to do with her upbringing, her mother, a lack of love. Some sort of avoidance of it all, some sort of block.
But still, every time. With Henry she drank every single beer out of his fridge. She hates beer. He held her hair back as she hurled for hours in the early morning. With Phineas she showed up at his already plastered, mascara stains on her cheeks as she smiled weird and wide and asked to come inside. With George she was calmer, but she still called him after drinking a whole bottle of wine by herself and he could tell she had been crying. It's always clear in her voice. In her eyes.
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: HP13_writes
Time Period: Regency
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: In Progress
Words: 10,852
Chapters: 1/9
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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?”
What happens at a wedding, stays at the wedding
Author: colinscourt
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,831
Chapters: 1
Summary: It was like a pavlovian response. As soon as Penelope entered the church, he got half hard when his eyes landed on her. She had on her bright yellow, poofy bridesmaid dress and he was certain she hated it. She kept trying to pull down the taffeta fabric when it would ride up her belly, as well as awkwardly adjust the fabric around her breasts, a motion that made Colin’s mouth go dry immediately.
Colin hadn’t seen or spoken to her in months and he suspected it was because she had been avoiding him. Things had seemed mostly normal between them after Anthony’s wedding. They did all the same things, hung out as regularly as his travel schedule would allow and just seemed normal. It seemed like they were following the same strategy they had after Daphne’s wedding. Don’t talk about it.
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: 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: 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: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,016
Chapters: 1
Summary: "He was supposed to make life easier.
One thing to check off her weekly to-do list – because after a long day of working for one of the largest publishing companies in the world, why the hell would she want to spend what little energy she has left on cooking?
But it’s Sunday, and Penelope is once again neglecting her weekly chores because she is completely fucking distracted by the gorgeous home chef currently making all kinds of magic in her tiny, less-than-ideal kitchen."
Author: usuallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 5,887
Chapters: 1
Summary: “I understand women have needs. I know all about women’s needs, actually.”
“I know,” Penelope says dryly, “we share a wall.”
“Well, if you just wanted to scratch an itch,” Colin's fingers dance along her skin, “maybe I could…”
Her stomach swoops.
“You could…?”
“Help you.”
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.
Author: Castlefied
Time Period: Modern
Rating: General
Status: One Shot
Words: 5,473
Chapters: 1
Summary: When his parents are caught up with the birth of yet another Bridgerton baby, little Colin seizes his opportunity and switches his baby sister with the delightful little redheaded baby he has become infatuated with at daycare.
Author: writergirl8
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,637
Chapters: 1
Series: Part 1 of Shatter
Summary: Colin can still remember what Penelope’s handwriting looked like when she was a little kid.
He had spent years getting lost in the large loops of her handwriting, bubbly and sweet, with long curls on lowercase G and Y, the spidery lines on uppercase F and E, the little tail on the letter R that he could never be bothered to complete. The people in the queue with him are chattering excitedly about how obsessed they are with the new P. Featherington book, the cute picture of her cat on her Instagram, the TikTok she posted of her making homemade strawberry ice cream, and Colin can’t stop wondering if a single one of them has any idea what her handwriting looked like when she was young.
all of the girls you loved before
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.
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: fabesrutter
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,005
Chapters: 1
Series: Part 1 of the polin divorce au
Summary: "In a time where so much was uncertain, Colin was sure of one thing: he would never grow used to Penelope’s ringless fingers, devoid of any trace of him."
or, the polin divorce au
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: a_novel_addiction
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,726
Chapters: 1
Summary: While enjoying a smoke under a starry sky, Colin and Penelope get closer.
Bonfires are the ultimate mood setter.
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: usuallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,534
Chapters: 1
Summary: When his girlfriend asks him to stop seeing her cousin, it should be an easy request for Colin to grant.
After-all, he’s been with Marina for over a year, and as he’s told everyone since they were eight and ten years old, Penelope is nothing more than a friend.
So why does the mere thought of it, of a life without Penelope Featherington, make his chest feel so tight?
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: 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: 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.
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