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    long suffering propriety (is what they want from me) by for Fifi2930

    Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

    06 Aug 2025

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    Anthony paused briefly and gave his brother a pointed look. “If this is a matter of wetting your wick—“

    “Enough!” Colin leapt from his chair and moved toward his brother. “You insult me and my intended.” He straightened to his full height, now towering over Anthony sitting at his desk. “But if that is what you truly believe, that my being green and naïveté is what has led me to fall for Miss Thompson, then escort me to one of your bloody brothels and be done with it. If ‘wetting my wick’ as you so crassly put it, brother, is what it takes for you to believe me serious, I will—however begrudgingly—accompany you.”

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    Colin goes to a brothel in Season 1 and makes several discoveries (about himself and others) that drastically alter the course of events

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    20 Apr 2026

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    long suffering propriety (is what they want from me) by nojamhands for Fifi2930
    Fandoms:Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
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    A Practical Romance by

    Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

    16 Jan 2026

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    Penelope is quiet for a long while after he nodded his head and confirmed he was inquiring about whether or not she has changed her mind about having a baby with him.

    "I…" she starts before swallowing once. "Well, I suppose as the years have gone on… I have imagined it a time or two, yes."

    Colin knows she is telling the truth, and for the first time in a long time, he is also able to read her and surmise there is more still she is holding back.

    "Is that something you wish for?" he asks cautiously. "A babe? One of your own?"

    Pen's big, pale blue eyes blink at him twice slowly before she starts nibbling on her lip in a decidedly nervous gesture. "That is… We did not… We married for other purposes. I do not expect—"

    "I am not asking what you expect," he interrupts, keeping his tone gentle, though, so as not to scare her out of this spell of vulnerability he's found her in tonight. "I am asking simply what you desire for yourself. Do you want a baby, Pen?"

    "Yes."

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    Or, regency era Penelope and Colin have been in marriage of convenience for five years and decide to have a child together—platonically of course.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    A Practical Romance by KatofKanals
    Fandoms:Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
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    I Will Follow You Into the Dark by

    Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

    01 Apr 2025

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    To an observer, Colin and Penelope were nothing more than frosty acquaintances.

    That did not stop Penelope from lingering in the Bridgerton family wing, however.

    “Took you long enough,” Colin mumbled in Penelope’s ear as he dragged her down the hall towards his room. Penelope could hear her heart pound in her ears as she submitted to him.

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    Three years after calling off their engagement, Colin is back in town for the new social season. How much longer can Penelope continue to deny him?

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    12 Mar 2026

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    I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Holiday_Hustle
    Fandoms:Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
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    The Reluctant Damsel by

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    04 Mar 2024

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    After a rather dramatic encounter at the end of the year, Colin Bridgerton rushes home from Greece to face his friend (and his feelings) as he fights to protect her from herself.

    Penelope Featherington, however, will do everything in her power to let her saviour know that she does not, in fact, need saving and would quite like for him to stop his meddling.

    The two come together through the 1814 Season to navigate business, a saviour complex, and the terrifying notion of telling your friend you are in love with them.

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    11 Mar 2026

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    The Reluctant Damsel by Royal_Darjeeling
    Fandoms:Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
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    I Scream at You in Poetry by

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    05 Jan 2025

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    Colin maintained that his recent bout of lunacy was, in its entirety, all Penelope Featherington’s fault. For, had she not been so very resolute in her refusal to speak to him after an off-season's worth of unanswered letters, it was wholly possible that – after having overheard his mother lamenting both the state of the Featherington baronry and the effects of Lady Featherington’s now rather indiscreet baby race on Penelope’s chances at a felicitous (if practical) match – Colin would have acted far more rationally than to orchestrate a not-so-clandestine, not-so-very-appropriate, and also not-at-all-truthful midnight tryst between them in the orangery at Vauxhall Gardens.

    (Maybe.)

    After all, if it was simply time Penelope needed to work her way towards forgiving him and restoring their once warm friendship, as his mother had suggested… Well, then a lifetime together would certainly suit that, with change to spare, wouldn’t it?

     

     

    — or, Penelope is a storm Colin is determined to weather. A different take on the entrapment of it all.

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    05 Mar 2026