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The Pedestal by aliterarydiscourse for Fifi2930
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Sep 2025
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When one is on a pedestal, it is easy to fall from it. Colin Bridgerton finds out the hard way. After heartache by one she felt was above her, Penelope Featherington moves on to find her freedom. What happens once Colin finds himself the one worshipping her instead?
Angst with a HEA.
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Mondrich raises his glass to her. "You're a spy. You should know the rules. Fuck as much as you want, but whatever you do don't catch feelings."
Or Penelope Featherington is a French spy who meets the dashing newly promoted Captain Colin Bridgerton whilst they are both in Egypt. And as he creates his own unit she finds herself desperately falling for him.
1940s AU inspired by SAS Rogue Heroes.
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- Part 1 of Polin Historical Fics
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Miss Featherington and The Inspector by JoyaWrites
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (TV 2020)
09 Sep 2025
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Penelope Featherington has always dreamed of being a Private Detective just like her father. However, there's one problem she is a woman and women can't do much except sit and look pretty. When Penelope's father unexpectedly dies she decides life's too short to let her gender stop her taking on her dream. Especially now there is no one to stop her.
Enter Detective Inspector Colin Bridgerton, son of a Viscount, who managed to calve out his own path in life thanks to Detective Featherington. When he hears Penelope is following in her father's footsteps he is far from happy, afterall he promised to look out for Penelope if anything ever happened to him and detective work is far from safe. Regularly thrust together as they solve often accidental overlapping cases Penelope and Colin find themselves having to learn to work as a team in order to close cases.
With Colin's determination to keep Penelope safe and Penelope's determination to prove herself the pair find themselves stuck with each other all too often and neither one of them is willing to back down.Victorian London Detective AU inspired by Miss Scarlet and The Duke.
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The 32-year-old actor Colin Bridgerton is currently filming the next season of the series which made him instantly famous a little over 10 years ago. His early marriage to the then Victoria Secret model Marina Thompson made him even more popular. But since he caught her in bed with a lover a few years ago, they have officially had an open marriage because Marina (12 years older than him) and her lover both were married and have already been secretly photographed by fans months before. That's why they remain in public as a loved-up couple, but they hardly see each other in private (except the sex after joint appearances). Colin distracts himself with various other women, but eventually Marina takes the decision that she won't accept any more flings of his (and especially the blurred photos of him with other women). So, for his fulfilment, she invites someone else into his bed.
Attention: This is 100% a Polin-Happy-Ending, but it’s going to be a long way. (They have sex with other too, but mainly it’s Polin – sometimes with others. Will update the tags as we go!)
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Summer 2002 : I’ll be there for you by alexxou_stories24
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Aug 2025
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Summer 2002. The Bridgerton siblings head to summer camp—with Penelope tagging along. Colin is still hurting from their father’s death, finding comfort in Penelope’s quiet support. For Penelope, it’s a dream come true: a whole summer away from her chaotic family and close to her longtime crush, Colin. She's hoping to finally grow closer to him. But the universe—and some mean-spirited bullies—have other plans. Still, no matter how tough things get, one thing is certain: Colin is always there for her.
Part two of : Cruel Summer : A tale of Polin Summers (Modern AU)
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with such a big age gap between colin and his elder brothers, closer in age to his younger sisters, colin grew up the only boy sitting on a blanket during pretend teatime, forever playing the role of the injured knight, or pulling pink ribbons out of his curls.
or: colin loves and protects his sisters as they love and protect him, from excitable kids to married adults. (each chapter is a different sister)
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She pulls away and looks him straight in the eyes. “Colin Bridgerton, you’re my hero.”
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After Colin heroically defends her, Penelope thanks him in the best way she knows how.
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where the sweet child sleeps by snowokay
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Jul 2025
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It was 1991 when Penelope, struggling to get pregnant in her marriage to Alfred Debling, made a bold and socially frowned-upon decision for the time: artificial insemination with the help of an anonymous donor.
Four years later, after a difficult divorce from an abusive husband and raising a son who still carries the emotional scars of that past, Penelope is doing her best to rebuild her life. Until a data breach at the fertility clinic exposes identities once promised lifelong confidentiality – and a stranger, with the same eyes as her son, appears at her doorstep.
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“Is there something I can help you with?”
Penelope touched her son’s head with one hand and gripped the doorknob with the other, confusion and unease tightening in her chest as she watched the man before her regard her child with quiet curiosity.
“I… I have reason to believe I’m the biological father of your son.”
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Taking Over Me by alcopop_beetle
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Jul 2025
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Penelope suffers one of the worst period cramps she’s ever had in a year, on top of a brewing migraine and a leftover hang over. She was totally content in sleeping through the pain until a certain Colin Bridgerton (who she was supposed to give a ride to the airport for his next overseas assignment) came barreling to her door and took over for her.
The same infuriating man she vowed to just let go and be content as his best friend, now walking frantically around her apartment like a busted Roomba, suitcases forgotten by the door, taking care of her more than anyone actually ever did….even offering to help her do the most unorthodox method of “healing” said period cramps…….
OR Colin “helping” his best friend Penelope curb the pains brought about by her period by bringing her to orgasm.
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- Part 1 of Taking Care of You (Polin Sick Fics)
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A rather scandalous encounter by alinaszw
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Jun 2025
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What if Colin & Pen would’ve never been childhood friends and met first at her debut? Would he help her with her rather scandalous problem at her first ball?
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Bathrobes & Cyclones by NeonVenables
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
12 Jun 2025
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When Colin Bridgerton invites Penelope Featherington to come to Australia, ostensibly to help her get over the break up of her relationship, a cyclone creates more chaos than they anticipate.
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Two horny idiots pining over each other, stuck in one luxurious room, in bathrobes.
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i know just the place by itsokayitsfine
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
01 Jun 2025
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When the going gets tough, she gets going. And when she’s lost to the world, his world stops.
Or, two former best friends who have been mostly estranged for a decade find themselves in the world's smallest cottage in the English countryside with no choice but to hash out ten years of miscommunications, misunderstandings, and big, complicated feelings.
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Colin is the third son of the London undergrounds longest controlling family, he lives for his family and his duty to them. However that duty comes at a high price. Is Colin ready to pay that price so that he can be with the woman he has loved since he was a young man learning the family ropes from his father or will it shatter their friendship for good.
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Kissing is for two people by Somethingaboutaredsweater
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Apr 2025
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Looking very much like the cat that got the cream. She smiled at him. He could sense that she was itching to read it. Body betraying him again. He got up from the sofa. His hand wrapped tight with her shawl and made his way across the room to her side.
Colin lent in close and breathed into her ear; “Read it when you are alone.”
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After catching Penelope reading his elicit writings, Colin instead of hiding them, gives them to Penelope to read as part of her lessons. Embolden by this choice, Colin and Penelope find themselves blurring the lines between mentor and mentee and friends.
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nobody knows me the way that you do by audbooh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
08 Apr 2025
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Colin and Penelope will always find each other, across every universe.
My entries for Polin week 2025!
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Without you by LucyKirgstein (CarmenHabanera)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Apr 2025
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Colin Bridgerton, overwhelmed by the fact that Penelope was Lady Whistledown's ,he wishes aloud that the wretched column never existed. To his shock, he wakes up in a world where Lady Whistledown is no more .
However, this new reality is far from perfect. Colin finds himself grappling with the consequences of his wish as he discovers that his own actions and choices have led him down a darker path. As he faces the the monster he's become . -
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When a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a deadly virus is unleashed, turning its victims into mindless, flesh-hungry monsters. Ground Zero? St. George's Private Academy.
Penelope Featherington already had enough to deal with—bullies who never let her breathe, a family that barely noticed her, and the suffocating weight of secrets she couldn’t share. But when the infection spreads, trapping her and her classmates inside, survival becomes the only thing that matters.
With the undead clawing at their doors and trust unraveling among the living, Penelope and a small group of survivors must fight their way through the nightmare. But the virus isn’t the only danger lurking in the shadows—because some monsters wear human faces.
And not everyone wants to be saved.
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Psyche Incarnate by everlarktoast
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Feb 2025
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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.
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In which Penelope poses nude for a statue and drives Colin to the brink of insanity.
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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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“You are astonishing, Colin.”
Without a doubt that was the highest compliment Colin ever received. And spoken in the sweetest voice, dripping with awe and admiration… He could not be at fault for feeling so affected. And if his grip on her tightened and his chest puffed out with pride and satisfaction when she thanked him for looking after them, after her, that was no one’s business.“I only wish I could thank you, in some way.”
The third son’s heart raced as Penelope's sweet words washed over him, her innocent gratitude awakening a sudden, fierce willingness to push modesty to the side and accept a reward. In his alcohol-fueled bravado, he found himself thinking of medieval maidens rewarding their gallant knights with tokens of affection.
As the music faded away, Colin made a split-second decision. He took Penelope's hand, giving it a gentle squeeze.
“If you so insist.”
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or, after unmasking Jack Featherington, Colin feels entitled to a little reward, and when Pen's offers it so sweetly... how can he refuse?