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To the Ends of the Earth. by HorseSad
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Feb 2026
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For Colin, no matter how many countries he visited, how many people he met, how useful he was to the crown, he was haunted by Penelope.
After the first month he started to fill a journal with words that are written about her, for her, hoping to find his way towards understanding and forgiveness (what choice did he truly have, between forgiving her and never seeing her again?). Letters piled up unsent, but he could stop producing them - his words spilling out of him like air.
By the fifth month of his travels, he had started to hallucinate her, catching glimpses of her red hair across a piazza. One night, half-deranged, he trailed the sound of her voice through the streets to find only a dead-end and her absence.
Another night, boots frozen to cobblestones he was trapped under the glare of her bright blue eyes peaking out in shock from under a heavy cloak. A cart toppled behind him, a moment of distraction. When he looked back, the spirit had disappeared.He no longer knew if he was searching for something or fleeing from it. In the seventh month he returned home, and found it was fundamentally changed.
Penelope was gone.
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An Escape to The Country (or, The Aggravation of One Penelope Featherington). by HorseSad
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
09 Nov 2025
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Violet Bridgerton has had enough of her three eldest sons refusing to engage with the marriage mart. She has seen her daughters Daphne and Francesca married in the last four seasons but she wants more grandchildren and she wants them now.
And so, in the week before the whole family and ton are due to descend on Aubrey Hall for the annual Hearts and Flowers Ball, Lady Violet has invited a select group of eligible ladies to the Hall to participate in a series of challenges where the ultimate prize is up for grabs: marriage to one of the three oldest Bridgerton brothers. Penelope Featherington is on her fourth year on the mart with no prospects.
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multichap fic I will correct the chapter count on update.
Whistledown exists, Colin didn’t make any foolish declarations in the Featherington gardens, Penelope and Eloise are grand. Prudence is still unmarried. This started out as a purely crack fic but I accidentally kept adding plot and making myself cry. There is still quite a lot of crack though. If you crave period accuracy, sorry. I researched some bits with fervour and then hugged an anachronism or two for the giggles.
I’m trying to be consistent, but I make the rules and my brain is wonky). -
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Colin and Penelope and Hyacinth listen to The Life of a Showgirl and have an epiphany.
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It was the morning after what should have been the happiest day of their lives, but Colin and Penelope are broken, exhausted, and not getting a chance to breathe.
Or:
A couple of months ago someone on Twitter asked if there was a fiction picking up after the “you do not have to leave”/“I wish to” exchange and so I wrote one. They’re both trying their best, okay?
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Look, basically there’s some sucking. Platonic sucking? The odd platonic nibble. You’ve met these idiots.
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Penelope is resolved to get over Colin so that she can have a real shot at happiness but when she stops responding to his letters it drives Colin to make some realizations regarding everything he thought he felt about her.
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06 Feb 2026
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She lifted three fingers in front of his face, steady and unamused. “How many fingers am I holding up?”
Colin smirked, shifting on the bench despite the throb in his head. “Twenty,” he quipped, voice low, teasing.
Her unimpressed stare hit him harder than any punch he’d taken tonight. Without breaking her gaze, she turned her head toward Arch. “Looks like you still don’t know how to pick a smart fighter, Dad. This one doesn’t even know how to count.”
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After taking a bad hit, Colin’s coach calls the only person who can help; his estranged daughter, a reluctant paramedic. Colin thinks their tense encounter is the last he’ll see of her… until his sister introduces him to her classmate.
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12 Jan 2026
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(mis)ltoe by unusual_cliche for whistledownbad
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Dec 2024
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Hyacinth is tired of seeing her siblings make a mess of their love lives so she decides to take matters into her own hands.
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Bookmarked by HorseSad
12 Dec 2025
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When Penelope is kidnapped on the road to London, she doesn’t expect a swift rescue, if one comes at all. Then Colin Bridgerton comes crashing through the door, windswept, heartbreakingly heroic, and entirely too handsome for his own good—especially when she starts praising him for saving her life.
Now they’re stranded for the night with only one bed and Colin rapidly discovers that nothing tests his gentlemanly restraint like sharing close quarters with the one woman whose opinion has always mattered to him—especially when she won’t stop giving him those maddening compliments.
Bookmarked by HorseSad
06 Dec 2025
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Colin Bridgerton Is Missing, and So Is the Plot.
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14 Nov 2025