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Penelope Featherington meets Colin Bridgerton on a fairly ordinary Sunday afternoon. When they say goodbye with a promise to see each other again, they're both filled with hope for the future. However, when tragedy strikes everything changes. Penelope and her best friend, Phillip Crane, unexpectedly find themselves in the midst of the Bridgerton family, who accept them with open arms and open hearts. The question is, will Penelope allow herself to be loved and taken care of in the way she's only ever dreamed of, or will the guilt she feels for moving forward lead to more than just her own broken heart?
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With her boyfriend Alfie away at the South Pole, Penelope Featherington is bored of going to movie industry parties on her own.
She hires an escort, just some arm candy to keep her company, look at her adoringly, and tell people how amazing she is at every opportunity.
His name is Colin.
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The title comes from the song Black Limousine by Dragonette and there will be more Dragonette lyrics scattered through this story (and a few others besides). Have a listen to the Black Limousine playlist on YouTube.
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Thank you to the bestest of Beta readers, RumbaWaltzand ABVJ. I could not have completed this story without your help! You complete me.
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- Part 1 of The Dragonette Chronicles of Polin
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The Lady with three names by Alice_whiterabbit, Rising_from_Asher (Alice_whiterabbit)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
24 Sep 2025
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What if Colin and Penelope never met as children and she ended up marrying Lord Debling out of convenience? What if she would not only find herself interested in science but also in the creation of rather ... passionate literature? And what dear reader would happen if a widow would save the life a dashing bachelor in need?
Would she finally get the happy ending she had always wanted?
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Over the years, Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington have been everything to each other. From neighbours to friends. From friends to best friends. From best friends to lovers. And now they’re married and living their absolute best lives together.
As a successful romance author and an up and coming actor, their lives are turned upside down when Penelope’s book is picked up to be adapted into a movie and Colin is cast as the lead.
Will this new chapter of their life be as smooth sailing as the rest of their relationship or will their careers put a spanner in their life after “I do.”
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Penelope Featherington is having the best day of her life. After years of hard work, she’s about to be a published author. She’s on cloud nine…until she trips down the stairs in front of the entire publishing house. She’s doesn’t know how she’ll recover from the humiliation, until a handsome paramedic comes to her rescue.
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Penelope is a famous author, Colin is her trusted bodyguard. His jealousy gets in the way of him remaining professional.
Enter The Polinverse Event Week 2: Modern Era
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Penelope's Garden by MistressofNone3645
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Jul 2025
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Penelope Featherington takes on home ownership with a quaint, rural stone cottage. It's only fault is the untamed garden surrounding it. She hires Silver King Landscaping, owned by Benedict Bridgerton, to take on the laborious task of giving her the garden of her dreams. But when his brother Colin - the brawn of the operation - arrives to see the project through, Penelope gets more than what was outlined in her contract.
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Agatha’s Game (So Lay Your Cards Down, Down, Down, Down) by preferringsleep (mellarkey)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Jun 2025
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Penelope is a bestselling science fiction romance author writing under the pseudonym Donna Piper. Her work has attracted the attention of a socialite who invites her to a celebrity charity event she is hosting. The event, a casino night with a masquerade theme, allows Penelope to attend as her alter ego, disguised in a blonde wig and a black mask.
Well aware of her skills in no-limit Texas Hold’em poker, Agatha Danbury enters Penelope in a tournament with a tempting prize, but as the night goes on for Penelope, she finds that one of her opponents is even more tempting.
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For the Plot by orphan_account
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 May 2025
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Penelope is having trouble writing the sex scene for her latest story.
However when she lets the man she's been crushing on, also her roommate, Gregory Bridgerton, read it things take an interesting turn...ie; Greg reads her sexy scene and choses to give her another one to write about.
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“Excuse me!” Benedict could not understand what the hell was wrong with pretty redhead, “I said nothing wrong, if you cannot accept that classics are better-”
“Oh, believe me, I am well versed in literature and love the classics but unlike you, I don't go about insulting modern works especially when I will be needing a sign of the author of one of those modern works..”
(Title from Hozier’s song)
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A Love Between Writers by Bella_roses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 May 2025
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Two best friends. A secret crush. A life-changing reunion in New York.
For Colin Bridgerton (29), leaving London was the only option. Just as he realized he was in love with his best friend, Penelope Featherington (24), he couldn’t bear to watch her date other men. So, he packed his bags, left the heartbreak behind, and started fresh in New York, officially to escape the British press and focus on his travel books. His decision paid off—last year, he won the prestigious New York Book Prize. But unofficially, Colin fled to escape his feelings, trying to love Penelope from afar. Now, Colin’s carefully built new life is about to unravel. He’s been chosen to present this year’s Book Prize to an emerging literary star, but when he greets the authour herself, he’s blindsided. The rising star? Penelope Featherington. -
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A few months back, Eloise discovered Penelope had published a book inspired by the Bridgerton family. They haven’t spoken since. Penelope and Colin have gotten closer, and are talking about becoming a couple. Eloise finds out and tells Penelope that they can be friends again, but she can’t date Colin. Penelope, desperate to have her best friend back, agrees. Colin, naturally, is very upset. Penelope begins to realize she has to choose between two of the most important people in her life. Will she choose Eloise who has been her best friend since they were children, despite the tension between them? Or will she choose Colin, who has always had her back and just might be the love of her life?
*I do not own Bridgerton, it's characters, or any photos used in this fic!!
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When Penelope is left to fend for herself after her boyfriend (almost fiancée) leaves on a six-month-long research expedition, her best friend Colin offers to move in as a temporary housemate in his absence. What began as a favor for a friend quickly spirals out of control as without quite meaning to the pair begin playing a far too serious game of house and must confront their deeper emotions before the return of Alfred in the coming months.
Or not, it’s only playing house after all.
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Each chapter will be a month of the first year Penelope and Colin are together, starting on New Years Day. The chapters are based loosely on Taylor Swift lyrics, but will all be the same storyline. Colin and Penelope admit their feelings during the Bridgerton NYE festivities and navigate their relationship together. Will be cute, but some angst as they learn and grow.
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Vanilla Ice Cream and Oreos by Aubreyhalloway
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Brid - Fandom
04 Jan 2025
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(Private chat between Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington)
Pen: Broke up with Alfred. Can I stay with you tonight?
Col: Of course!
Col: I’m so sorry! XxPen: Be there in ten
Col: Ok 💛
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Penelope breaks up with her long term boyfriend, and seeks comfort from her best friend. Their secret and suppressed feelings for one another can no longer be hidden. How long will these two wait to muster up the courage to take the leap?
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Years after Colin Bridgerton broke Penelope Featherington’s heart, the two are thrust back together for a high-stakes business merger. As old wounds reopen and unresolved feelings rise to the surface, Colin realizes how deeply he regrets his mistakes, while Penelope grapples with trusting him again. With emotions running high and secrets lurking between them, they must decide whether to overcome the past and build something new—or accept that some stories are better left unfinished.
1/10/25: On Hiatus
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Nice to meet you by Bella_roses
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Nov 2024
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For ten years, Colin Bridgerton travelled the world as a travel influencer. Now, however, he wants to stop travelling. He has not only used his profits to renovate his house in Bloomsbury, he has also founded his own production company, which already has a deal with Netflix for three seasons of a series about travelling. At the very same time, he realises how happy his siblings are with their families and partners and is beginning to wish for the same for his own life.
Penelope Featherington has been his sister Eloise's best friend since they sat next to each other in a university seminar on feminist philosophers five years ago and is already closer to his family than he is. But surely he can't just be drawn to her because his family cherishes her?
In this story, Colin and Penelope don't know each other. We will only read Colin's perspective on the things that will happen. But the HEA is guaranteed. No drama and no angst, just a little story of how two people find each other.
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Whatever she’d been expecting from a 10pm knock at the door, it wasn’t this.
“You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me,” she muttered to herself as she flipped the bolt and cracked the door, leaving the chain fully engaged. “I have nothing to say to you.”
Colin huddled in front of her door, eyes widening when he noticed the chain. “Pen…can’t we talk?”
“No. There’s nothing left to say,” she spat out, knowing it was a lie. There was so much to say, but she wasn’t prepared to say it right now. Not like this.
“Let me in. Please,” he pleaded, leaning against the doorframe as he swayed slightly.
A gust of frigid wind blew through the cracked door, flapping the hem of her robe and sending a chill straight up her back; it was only then that she noticed the fine shiver running through him that puckered his lips and shook beads of water from his hair. “Colin, it’s 6 degrees out here, what the fuck are you doing wandering around in the pouring rain in the dark?”
“...I don’t know.”
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What if "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims had been written about Polin? What would the story be?
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Penelope opens up about her life and feelings
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Penelope has been tasked with giving her next romance novel a little more spice. A curious Colin helps her to understand the importance of angles.
Based on the discourse around The Mirror Scene in S3E05 and the difficulty a chaise longue might pose for that kind of intimacy.