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He tried to focus on anything else—the faint groaning of the elevator, the muffled city noises beyond, the slightly stale air of the lift. But none of it worked. His body, it seemed, had ideas of its own; he had kissed her… and his body had responded. Quickly. Much quicker than he might have expected. It was overwhelming. And inappropriate. This was not the time or place for this. What the hell just happened?
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- Part 1 of Modern Love
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10 May 2025
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09 May 2025
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Nuzzled Noses by WrensSymphony
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
23 Jan 2025
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From the moment of their accidental meeting as young children through the trauma of hurt and loss, the heartbreak of adolescence, and the confusion of young adulthood, Colin and Penelope's connection anchors them both.
This story aims for hurt and comfort in equal measure as it follows the "platonic best friends" (really, though?) as they grow up, with time jumps between each chapter as we see them navigate their lives together. Their story is one of true friends to lovers, where lines blur and it's hard to see where friendship ends and love begins, because perhaps they've been together all along.
*CW: This is NOT a dark fic, but does contain mature themes, specifically a child abuse storyline.*
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- Part 1 of Nuzzled Noses
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- English
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- 80,009
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- 10/10
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09 Mar 2025
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How Can I Resist You? by shoobydoobydoo
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Feb 2025
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Penelope Featherington was tired of waiting for the right time, the right situation, the right man. With the success of the book series she authors under a pseudonym, she has decided that it was time to achieve her dream since childhood: to become a mom. She knows to expect some challenges, but she’s prepared to provide the very best for both her and her child, even if that means she’s doing it on her own.
After a heartbreak in his last year at uni, Colin Bridgerton has spent the past 10 years traveling the world discovering himself, filling his time with fun-filled adventures and meeting new people. But the appeal of travel seems to have recently lost its luster, and has decided to spend some time in London while he figures out his next step. To keep himself, and his mind busy, he spends his days ubering. But one day, he accepts the ride that will forever change his life.
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- Part 1 of How Can I Resist You?
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- English
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- 132,375
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- 25/25
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09 Mar 2025
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“But can you promise me Pen, that you wouldn’t do a disastrous thing like getting with one of my brothers. Or even worse, fall in love with one of them?”
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She knew how it happened, knew what changed. It was when she started her job at Magazine Danbury a month after she finished University, it was when Colin decided he was staying home instead of whisking away to some place else in the world and got himself a job at the same company.
It was when Colin came into her life completely. As a colleague, as a friend, as something more.
And Penelope tried, she tried so hard to resist him with all of her heart.
But growing closer created a pull that was alluring, that was wanting, and that made Penelope weak to the knees. And being in close proximity with him these past couple of days, made her fall even deeper.
All of it, leading to this moment. The day after the conference which he invited her to. They were together in their hotel room, room no.165, naked under the sheets in the bed. Laying in the morning afterglow from a mind blowing night before and-
“What have we done Colin?”
“Something that we both wanted, for such a long time.”
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23 Jan 2025
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22 Jan 2025
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buried in the shallow grave by snowokay
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Jun 2026
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In a world where the marriage ritual leaves a permanent mark on you, the word that reflects your match’s first impression of you appears in your skin.
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Penelope had known since she was eight years old who she would marry. She had heard stories about him, how brave and noble he was, and spent her whole life in love with the boy in the picture.
Something that had never crossed Penelope’s mind, however, was the possibility that Colin Bridgerton would be disappointed upon meeting her.
“Speak now, Penelope, with clarity and conviction. What is the word, bestowed upon you by the gentleman ordained as your match, that defines you in his eyes?”
The celebrant’s voice suddenly felt like a distant hum, her vision blurred by the tears welling up in her eyes. On her wrist, visible to anyone close enough to read it, was written her word with golden letters.
Shallow.
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08 Dec 2024
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The Blind Date Bet by RomancingTon
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 Dec 2024
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After spending years scouring apps and enduring lackluster dates, Penelope is at a dead end in her quest for romance. The Bridgerton family, upon hearing this, concocts a bet to see which sibling can set her up on the best blind date. Penelope accepts, nervous at the prospect of her best friend and lifelong love, Colin, setting her up after coming home permanently from his travels.
The winner, determined by who Penelope believes her best date to be with, receives the mallet of death for a full year.
The loser? Potentially the man who didn't realize he was in love with her in the first place.
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- English
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- 11/11
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03 Dec 2024
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Mistress For Sale by irockatdriving
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
26 Jan 2025
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Each season, the single women of the Ton are entered into either the marriage market or the mistress market. Every year, dozens of women who are considered spinsters or who are otherwise unable to enter the marriage market are sold at auction to become a mistress to a gentleman of the Ton.
Desperate for his brother to become a man, Anthony encourages Colin to purchase a mistress to learn the ways of the world. Colin is hesitant at first but agrees when he comes across an enchanting redhead named Penelope.
How will Colin accept the struggle of falling in love with his mistress, knowing society will expect him to eventually cast her aside and take a wife? How will his brothers accept his internal struggle?
Note: There is freeuse in this story, so please skip if this isn't your thing. It is a Polin HEA story.
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- English
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- 6/6
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24 Nov 2024
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Bless The Telephone by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Dec 2024
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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.
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Or, the one where Penelope and Colin start having phone sex as “friends.”
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- 13/13
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22 Nov 2024
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paradise lost by liraforyourthoughts
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, The Handmaid's Tale Series - Margaret Atwood
21 Jul 2024
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It seemed everyone else was more eager than she to see her pregnant. Ofcolin’s status in the new family was precarious, and in the beginning she rashly wished to be with child quickly just to be rid of the expectation. However, as the months went on without any progress - nor any threats of punishment - she was now unsure of what she wanted. Ofcolin quite liked passing the days in quiet repose. Her next family might not be so lenient. She rather wanted to prolong her current assignment as long as possible.
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Commander Colin is a scion of the Bridgertons, a political dynasty whose lineage can be traced back to the founders of the Republic of Gilead. Following tradition, a handmaid is bestowed upon him to help fulfill his duty. Seemingly demure and docile, Penelope is amiable enough, but scarcely occupies space in his mind. That is until one night, when he sees a spark in her eyes, a look that intrigues him, ensnares him. What they set into motion upends Colin's daily existence as he comes to realize that rather than a Venusian Eve, his handmaid is forbidden fruit incarnate. And forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.
or, The Handmaid's Tale AU
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19 Nov 2024
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To London on Brooding Wings by FernEdits95
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Nov 2024
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An unexpected encounter following the Featherington Ball leaves Penelope frightened, confused, and somehow...changed. She doesn't understand what's happening to her or why both Colin and Eloise—who she believed had forsaken her each in their own way—suddenly seem so fixated upon her. As her world slowly devolves into a haze of lust, blood, and what can only be described as madness, she finds herself wondering if she should let her friends help her or if she should try and save them from herself.
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- 71,340
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- 29/29
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16 Nov 2024
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The Bridgertons' Ward by cathypancake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Sep 2025
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When Viscount Edmund Bridgerton finds an unconscious little girl while playing hide and seek with his children, the Bridgertons' lives become a little more yellow. But the question would always remain:
Who is Penelope Aubrey?
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- 90,010
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15 Nov 2024
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“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?
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- 10/10
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15 Nov 2024
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Breakable heaven by itwasglorious for
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 Jan 2022
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It is Penelope Featherington's fifth season on the marriage mart and time is running out for her. Her guardian is determined to marry her off this season and it seems like she has no other option but to accept that her fate is to be married to someone she does not love. Until her friend, Colin Bridgerton, finally begins to see what has been there all along. But will it be too late?
- Language:
- English
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- 27,781
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- 8/8
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15 Nov 2024
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where the lovelight gleams (a christmas story) by canarysingingsweetly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Dec 2024
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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.
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- English
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- 38,044
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- 7/7
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- 342
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14 Nov 2024
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09 Nov 2024
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it's been almost a year since penelope last saw colin, so he's the last person she expects to walk down the stairs of the villa.
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the polin love island au
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- English
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- 167,902
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- 28/30
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08 Nov 2024
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Let's Make It Cinematic by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Nov 2024
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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.
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Or, the one where Penelope is on OnlyFans.
- Language:
- English
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- 87,628
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- 11/11
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07 Nov 2024
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i would've done (anything you wanted) by rubywadds
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Nov 2024
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That was until they were drunk at her birthday party a few months ago and he had kissed her on a dare from Benedict. Nothing happened that night, but the following day they slept together. They didn’t talk about it, quietly becoming some version of friends with benefits. Numerous times she thinks she should talk to him about them, if there is a them, and how she craves so much more from him.
There is a part of her that is worried to tell him how deep her feelings for him really go because what if he doesn’t want to go any further, what if he doesn’t want to be with her like she wants to be with him? What if she loses her best friend?
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07 Nov 2024