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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.
OR
Penelope and Colin in Ancient Greece — a familiar tale of love and woe.
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: 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: 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: clevelandy
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,603
Chapters: 1
Collection: Cupid's Bridgerton Valenquet 2025
Summary: "It’s like… long distance sex.”
That gave her pause. She looked up at the number. “What?”
“It’s like… 69,” he said, pointing at the numbers. “But there’s something in between them. Distance. Or! Or maybe that's the phone,” he said, pointing at the 0.
Penelope blinked up at the numbers. “God, you’re such a dork,” she breathed, turning around and tugging him into a bruising kiss. “It’s so fucking hot.”
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 14,912
Chapters: 2
Summary: It's not friends with benefits. It's friends OR benefits.
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?
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: 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: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 15,361
Chapters: 1
Series: Part 2 of Tasting the Stars
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: One night, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington on the roof of her flat.
For Colin, it was glorious.
For Penelope...maybe Colin could have asked her if she hadn't immediately thanked him and run away (but that's its own answer, isn't it).
Three years later, Colin is still trying (unsuccessfully) to escape the kiss, and to push down his feelings for his best friend who clearly does not love him in return.
During a week in Rome, Colin's dreams about Penelope are getting more vivid. And then there's this statue that looks just like her...
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 35,224
Chapters: 10
Summary: Colin Bridgerton is only in town for nine nights, so he plans to spend one night/day with each of his siblings (and his mom), enjoying their drink of choice while slowly coming to the realization (with his siblings' teasing help) that he's actually most excited for his last night in town with his best friend, Penelope Featherington ... maybe, quite possibly, because he loves her ...
Author: LightLeadingMe
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 6,185
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2024
Summary: Penelope could see the signs from miles away: the nervous shifting back and forth, the dart of his eyes looking at her and then away quickly, the harsh swallow that made his Adam’s apple bob in his throat.
“Colin Bridgerton,” she said, her voice barely above a shocked whisper. “Are you a virgin?”
The way his entire face reddened a few shades was all the confirmation she needed.
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: Castlefied
Time Period: Modern
Rating: General
Status: Complete
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: 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.
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: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 15,564
Chapters: 2
Summary: It is not until he buckles her into the back seat of his car that she says anything. “You ot Eweeze,” she mumbles, pretty blue eyes blinking at him. “Coh-win.”
“Want to run that one by me again, kid?”
Kid. He’s called her that since she was five and he was ten. She grimaces and puts her fingers into her mouth, pulling out a wad of soaked, lightly bloody cotton wool. Colin holds out his palm and she drops it in.
“You’re not Eloise,” she repeats, and the words are still warped and fuzzy but much more understandable. Colin balls up the cotton wool and with nowhere else to put it, shoves it in his pocket. “You’re Colin.”
“Good looking out,” Colin says, walking around to the driver’s seat and climbing in. He finds her eyes in the rear view mirror. “I am, in fact, Colin. The same Colin who took you to the hospital this morning, remember?”
Penelope nods solemnly. “You look like Eloise, though,” she tells him. “Same hair. Bet it feels just like hers.”
Or - Penelope gets her wisdom teeth removed and Colin offers to take care of her!
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: 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
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?
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.
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: 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: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 5,549
Chapters: 1
Summary: After an embarrassing print error in her published novel, Penelope's not sure she can ever face Colin again. He didn't catch it -- did he?
Maybe he did.
And maybe he liked it.
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 70,804
Chapters: 19
Series: Part 1 of The Short n' Sweet World
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: 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: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 52,666
Chapters: 10
Collection: My honeybee come get this Polin Discord
Summary: Can two people really find love on a reality tv show?
Penelope Featherington certainly hopes so -- at least, she thinks she does.
Tasked with managing socialite and travel Instagrammer Colin Bridgerton's appearance on the show, Pen is determined to do whatever it takes to make sure he wins the heart of the show's lead, Marina Thompson. However, will lines become blurred as Pen is forced to manipulate a love story when her old feelings for Colin start to resurface?
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 9,359
Chapters: 1
Collection: 12 Days of Polin Christmas
Summary: “I need four of the little fuckers, it looks like. Do they sell frozen scoter?" Penelope scrunched her nose, deep in thought. "Honestly, I’m not sure I’m entirely confident on what a scoter is, now that I think about it."
"It’s a type of duck. And you could find it frozen, maybe, but honestly," Anthony glanced over at Eloise before turning back to Pen, "Grandmother always used fresh scoter. I think it’s a difference-maker, to tell you the truth."
Penelope blinked. "So, that means … what exactly?"
"Well, you’ll have to go on the hunt,' Eloise said matter-of-factly."
Author: HP13_writes
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 13,495
Chapters: 1
Event: Polin Smutfest 2024
Summary: Colin and Penelope Bridgerton rarely ever fight, but when they do it usually stems from Colin asking Penelope the same question:
“Pen, can I please make love to you in front of a mirror?”
Thanks to a mysterious set of circumstances, Colin finally gets his wish, though not in the way he expected.
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?
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: 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: 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!
History will say they were roommates
Author: unsavorablefavors
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,865
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: art 🎨: *depicts two nude women in a compromising position that could only be read as sexual.”
historians 🤔: “this piece of art depicts female friendship. Just besties. Gal pals. Hoes before bros. Girl bosses.”
Author: unsavorablefavors
Time Period: Multiple Time Periods
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 7,556
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: Two researchers, two lovers.
A shipwreck, A sculpture.
One major mystery.
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: 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.
i love the way you decorate my heart
Author: uneventfulhouses
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 19,671
Chapters: 1
Summary: After another detour, another hour in traffic, and then another detour, they’re finally rolling through a mostly clear, fairly deserted stretch of road. Then, the GPS on the screen loses signal.
“Fuck,” he mutters. “Can you check your cell?”
Penelope does, but there’s not even a hint of a bar. For good measure, she checks his, but it’s just as signal-less.
“I can’t believe we’re lost,” she says with a giggle. “You’re gonna be hungry soon.”
“You afraid you’re gonna get eaten first?” he asks with a stupidly charming grin. Penelope nudges him with her elbow.
“If we turn back now, we’re going to end up doing this for another five hours,” Colin whines. “And I’m worried I’ll probably get us more lost with how all the detours ended up.”
“There was a sign for an inn not that far back. Do you want to try our luck?” she asks him. He purses his lips.
“Probably a better idea, and at least we can be warm inside. I’m dying to be vertical again,” he agrees.
or; penelope and colin get lost on their way to aubrey hall and stay at an inn on christmas.
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: 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: 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.
--
Or, the one where Penelope and Colin decide to make a baby “as friends.”
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!
it's just that i'll always choose you
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 45,720
Chapters: 7
Summary: When Colin Bridgerton returns to London for a social media sabbatical, Penelope suggests that he crash with her for the duration, however long it might be. Sure, she's been in love with him forever, and sure she has a full-time job, and sure she's a secret romance writer and nobody knows it, but she's really good at hiding things, so it should be fine, right? But when she also suggests that he work with her publisher, all of the secrets she's been so carefully tending start creeping into the light.
just as one beat ends, another starts
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 29,512
Chapters: 4
Summary: Penelope is twelve when she starts seeing colors differently. When she realizes that not only can Colin see the change, but he's the cause of her new ability, they tumble into an intimacy neither are prepared for. Growing up with the love of her life as a foregone conclusion is not the easiest path, especially since resisting him becomes increasingly difficult and no matter how much she seems to age, she's still too young.
The more they fall in love, the more wrapped up in each other they become and Penelope starts to wonder how far it can all go.
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?”
let's get freaky, get kinky, let's make this bed get squeaky
Author: LightLeadingMe
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 10,524
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2024
Summary: Everywhere was Colin. The minty scent of his shampoo, the musk of his cologne, lingering sweat. Pictures on his desk, some of them featuring Penelope, maps and some of his photography on the walls, his lava lamp that he’d had since he was fifteen that somehow still worked. There was even a laundry basket full of dirty clothes he hadn’t had a chance to get to before he was off on his work trip.
It was all rather intoxicating, feeling surrounded by him even though he wasn’t even in the same country, and the more she rolled around in it, the more that tugging sensation from her belly to between her legs made itself known.
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: 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: 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: 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: colinscourt
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,834
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: Penelope feels invisible as she spends Colin's birthday with him and his new friends at the British Museum. When a particular statue catches her eye, she makes some interesting discoveries about herself and the feelings of a certain birthday boy.
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: HP13_Writes
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 30,220
Chapters: 1
Event: New Year's Polin 2025
Summary: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!
A look at eleven consecutive New Year’s Eves in Polin’s life.
Based on the song “Nothing” by Bruno Major
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?
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.
--
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: 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: 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: 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: bumbershootindeed
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 36,407
Chapters: 1
Collection: 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.
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?
Penelope Featherington or Bust
Author: KatofKanals
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 9,509
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written In Stone
Summary: Sometimes your heart knows something your brain hasn’t caught on to yet. Colin Bridgerton learns this lesson with a some help from a lot of whiskey and a strangely enchanting piece of art.
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?”
Author: unsavorablefavors
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 2,435
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2024
Summary: Penelope's breasts hurt; Colin just wants to help.
She needs all the support she can get and Colin is willing to do anything to uplift her—literally.
...in a totally normal, platonic way, obviously...
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: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,765
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2024
Summary: “I, uh, guess I’ve put on a bit of weight?” He doesn’t know why it comes out as a question. He chews his cheek. “I suppose I hadn’t quite realised how much.”
His eyes dart away, not wanting to see the pity on her face. He knows he doesn’t have to say anything else and she will understand. She always does.
But she turns to face the mirror, her back pressed against him. “Colin,” she says softly, and he is forced to look back into the reflection.
“You have no idea, do you?” Her eyes regard his in the mirror, her lashes fluttering as she blinks at him. “How gorgeous you are. How much I want you.”
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 34,480
Chapters: 6
Event: New Year's Polin 2025
Summary: Weddings. So many weddings.
And at each one, Penelope, a traveling journalist, and Colin, a traveling social media influencer, find each other again.
As they reconnect after many years, they revisit their past with one another, and try to determine whether or not either one of them are ready to stop flying away.
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: applepuffsilver
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 3,834
Chapters: 1
Event: Kinktober 2024
Summary: Colin Bridgerton opens up Penelope’s instagram and slowly begins to stroke his cock.
He knows that he will be going to the special hell, the one reserved for Jordan Peterson fans and people who don’t like rom-coms and people who jerk off to their flatmate’s instagram whilst said flatmate is in the fucking flat but he really, really doesn’t care.
He is a deviant. He is unwell.
OR
Penelope needs help boosting her confidence and Colin is the world's most helpful flatmate
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 46,219
Chapters: 12
Summary: After Penelope falls out with Eloise over her popular gossip blog, all the Bridgertons cut contact with her. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to her, but after a few months of wallowing, Penelope moves to Scotland and buys a book shop and gets on with her life. It turns out she can live without the Bridgertons and she's happy enough with the new life she's cobbled together. No one knows anything about her here and that's how she likes it: complete and total separation from her life back in London and her old online persona.
That is, until she spots Colin Bridgerton at the coffee shop next door.
searching for a trail to follow again
Author: missparker
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 75,752
Chapters: 15
Summary: Penelope disappears, seemingly finished with the Bridgertons and Colin has a choice to make: let his own life slowly unravel or find her.
Author: The_Snuggery
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 14,263
Chapters: 1
Collection: 12 Days of Polin Christmas
Summary: When Penelope Featherington learns she’ll be alone for the holidays, she decides to accept an invitation to spend it with the Bridgertons at Aubrey Hall. There, an old passion is reignited—two old passions, if she’s being honest with herself.
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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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)
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.
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: JJJJ12
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 26,819
Chapters: 5
Series: Part 1 of Lemon Drops and Torrid Thoughts
Summary: Penelope and Colin haven't been friends in six years. Not after his cruel words. Not after her personal attack in the aftermath. Hate seems to come easy for the two of them, the simplest alternative to a once-special friendship.
There's nothing Colin loves more than goading Pen into a fight. And if she's going to be a brat about it? Well, then he's going to have to teach her a lesson.
Over, and over, and over again.
AKA the one where lemon desserts keep leading to depravity in the various Bridgerton homes.
Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 47,302
Chapters: 6
Event: New Year's Polin 2025
Summary: Penelope Featherington's first taste of champagne changes her life forever.
After that, champagne plays a role in multiple important events in Penelope's life.
OR
Six times that Penelope and Colin drink champagne.
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: 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: colinscourt
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Teen & Up
Status: One Shot
Words: 1,856
Chapters: 1
Summary: A Polin oneshot based on "This Night" by Billy Joel.
Colin catches feelings and can't suppress them during a slow dance with Penelope
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: usuallysunny
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: One Shot
Words: 4,329
Chapters: 1
Event: Polin Smutfest 2024
Summary: “What do you think they would say…” he husks, voice low and hot at her ear, “if they knew you were wet for me right now?”
OR Eloise wants to know the identity of the man making her flatmate moan like a pornstar every night—and Colin and Penelope's secret relationship hits breaking point that summer at Aubrey Hall.
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.”
---
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.
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.
--
Or, the one where Colin takes Penelope’s virginity “as a friend.”
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: everlarktoast
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Unspecified
Status: One Shot
Words: 1,882
Chapters: 1
Summary: Today, Michael Stirling broke off his engagement to Cressida Cowper.
No one knows why.
Francesca is freaking out.
Penelope’s been tasked with gathering details from Colin when he gets home.
Except, for the first time ever, he is not home before she is. So, here she sits, at the kitchen counter, waiting for her beloved husband to come home and spill the beans.
She pulls out her phone.
(Based on a stupid TikTok I saw)
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: 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
———
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?
where the lovelight gleams (a christmas story)
Author: canarysingingsweetly
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: Complete
Words: 38,050
Chapters: 7
Summary: Colin is utterly confused when he returns home for Christmas to find that Penelope is missing from the family holiday for the first time in a decade. Instead, she's spending tine with a new love interest -- a devastating discovery, especially as he realizes that he never really dreamed of spending the holiday without her.
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: HP13_writes
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Mature
Status: One Shot
Words: 20,198
Chapters: 1
Collection: Polin Written in Stone
Summary: Colin had been looking forward to this assignment for Lonely Planet for months, but everything had changed when his best friend, Penelope, blocked his number. How was he supposed to survive five whole months without talking to someone who means so much to him?
OR
The one where Penelope is pissed, Colin is depressed (and very very dumb), and I brush fifteen years of dust off the art history filing cabinet in my brain.
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.
Wrong Number - A very merry advent text fic
Author: Ishipthis, TheShayBensons
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 37,764+
Chapters: 25
Summary: Tis the season for an advent text fic! Join us for twenty-four days of fun!
Penelope gets a breakup text from an unknown number, (spoiler alert, it's Colin) and absolute chaos ensues.
Please note: Word count is low due to the story being told in screenshots of texts
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: 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: 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: clevelandy
Time Period: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete
Words: 31,403
Chapters: 3
Collection: Polinsanity Discord Secret Santa Exchange 2024
Summary: “It’s just, like, a twelve-hour drive. It’s not even that bad.”
“That’s extremely bad. Why aren’t you flying?”
“Because tickets are insane.”
“Aren’t you rich?”
He ignored that. “It’ll be fun! Just you and me? On the road? Seeing some of America’s greatest sights?”
“Like what? Indiana?”
“Like… like Chicago!”
Or, Colin needs a date to a wedding on Christmas Eve. Penelope has nothing better to do.
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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