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Give Me All The Pain (Give Me Everything) by wasteddarlinglover
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2022
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Penelope Featherington's soulmate hated her. She was alright with that. She hated him just as much. The only reason for their bond to exist was to bring each other pain.
Colin Bridgerton's soulmate gave up on him years ago. He was not worthy of love and patience that their bond required. He learned to accept that and move on with his life.
When two broken souls are brought together, Penelope and Colin find hope. Neither one of them can be with their soulmate, but maybe they can build something remarkable together. If they manage to let go of the pain, maybe they could even let themselves fall in love.- Language:
- English
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- 62,474
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- 11/11
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- 379
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- 1,601
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26 Jul 2025
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Penelope Featherington tells Colin Bridgerton she loves him four times. Each time, he brushes her off with the same refrain, "It will pass."
The first time he says it, it’s different. Because this time, she doesn’t believe in him anymore.
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21 Jul 2025
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Are You Gonna Marry, Kiss, or Kill Me? by audlovespolin, kybridge26
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 May 2025
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After Colin officially moves back to London for good, he invites everyone over to his new flat for a housewarming party. Penelope, who hasn't seen him in a year, is nervous but excited for the night ahead. Neither of them are prepared for what happens next during a not-so-innocent game of Fuck, Marry, Kill.
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- English
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- 11,053
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- 2/2
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- 384
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- 16,250
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07 Jun 2025
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Penelope Featherington didn't need her soulmate to live a successful and fulfilling life. She had a popular podcast, two very excellent best friends and a work/life balance that most could only dream of.
She wasn't going to let the fact that her soulmate had rejected her stand in her way.
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- English
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- 26,564
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Comments:
- 439
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- 1,235
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- 320
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- 23,235
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06 Jun 2025
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When he is away, she moves and keeps moving.
She adjusts. She endures. She thrives.
She misses him, but the act of missing him becomes as intrinsic as the act of loving him, and yet another thing she carries with her.
But after—
Everything is different.
Wherein these two idiots have the worst possible timing, the best of intentions with the worst ideas, and spend far too much time talking without saying anything at all.
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- English
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- 47,187
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 618
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- 1,448
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29 May 2025
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“I want you to try to wrap your arms around me and drag me to the bed like he did,” she stated, firmly.
“I’m not doing that.”
“How will I figure out how to get away?”
“You can…” Colin searched for an answer, “take self defense lessons. Or get a bat to keep in here! But you’re also tiny, Pen… So that’s why it’s important that your mum knows now that he shouldn’t be here!”
“Lessons cost money, and it would be a stranger! A bat could do little if I can’t get to it, Colin,” she said his name scoldingly, “It’s great my mum knows, sure. But I need to know I can get away!”
“I’ll pay for lessons,” he offered.
“I want to do this now! Come at me,” she demanded.
“No!”
She stomped her little foot and yelled up at him, “I said, ‘now’, goddamnit!”
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After 5 years Penelope comes back into the Bridgerton’s lives, but she’s changed. The confident, feisty, young woman she’d fought hard to be is hidden under a silent, careful, compliant ruse. Can the love of the Bridgertons and some self defense lessons with Colin bring her back and undo the damage caused by her long-term ex boyfriend?
Follow me on X for updates @AubreyHalloway
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- English
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- 23/23
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15 Apr 2025
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if it's the thought that counts (let's think it through) by Demisexual Colin Bridgerton (karawrites)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
06 Apr 2025
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Colin had asked her to take his virginity.
Not lose it with her, like throwing it in the bottom of the closet with the old school shirts unworn for years, or like a treasured bracelet, adored until it falls off one day never to be seen again. Take. Like it was his to give and hers to claim. Like she could cherish it.
And she’d said yes.
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- English
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- 1/1
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- 723
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- 7,440
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07 Apr 2025
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take me like you do in your dreams by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 Apr 2025
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Colin convinces Penelope to share custody of a dog. It's purely platonic. Just best friends, raising a dog. Nothing to worry about at all.
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- 22,366
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- 448
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- 24,770
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06 Apr 2025
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"It’s been so long that I don’t even know how to start… It would be different if I could talk to her face to face, but I can’t just catch a plane and knock on her door. Besides, she must be different now, you’ve seen how confident and gorgeous she looked. She’s famous, she has a boyfriend… I’m just the guy who betrayed her trust.”
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Five years after Colin and Penelope had a falling out, she's back in London for work. Their lives have changed drastically during that time, but Colin is determined to get her back as the dear friend she once was or, ideally, -now that he's finally realised the extent of his feelings for her- something more.
So much more.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 386
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- 1,001
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- 31,003
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01 Apr 2025
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There is no time and no reality in which Colin Bridgerton will not fall in love with Penelope Featherington. In multiple timelines, Colin and Penelope find love, even as their unusual experiences with time separate them from those they've known and loved before.
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27 Mar 2025
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In 1814, Colin went to bed in Bridgerton House the day he returned from Greece. When he awakens after what seems like a normal night’s sleep, it’s 1816, he’s married to Penelope, and they have a four-month-old son. With no knowledge of what has happened in the previous two years, Colin tries to navigate a life that is very different from the one he left behind. Meanwhile, Penelope navigates being married to a version of Colin who does not remember their life together or their love for each other.
This is a companion fic to Here We Go Again, in which a happily married Colin goes to bed in 1816 but wakes up shortly after he returns from Greece in 1814. You do NOT need to have read Here We Go Again to read this. While there will be intentional connections and parallels, the two stories are independent.
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- Part 2 of Falling Again
- Language:
- English
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- 81,369
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- 17/17
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- 1
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- 1,430
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- 1,880
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25 Mar 2025
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Under the summer sun of Aubrey Hall childhood best friends Colin and Penelope uncover a different type of heat which neither can ignore
or Polin Fooling Around: The Fic
- Language:
- English
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- 56,628
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 208
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- 1,620
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- 407
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16 Feb 2025
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“Well, I heard in town that you were looking for some help digging a well. And I thought I might provide my services.”
Penelope stared at him. “Now why on God’s green earth would you want to do that?” she asked, more bluntly than was perhaps proper for a young lady. “We can’t pay you.” Their father had left them with almost nothing, save this land and the house they were standing on. It was a pretty nice house - better than some of the others in the area - but life was hard.
He shook his head and turned his hat over in his hands. “No, I didn’t expect you could. I hoped you might instead pay me in kind.”
Penelope’s cheeks flushed red and she looked down, her hands smoothing the faded yellow cotton of her day dress. She didn’t suppose he meant what it sounded like he meant, being a gentleman and all, but the idea of Colin Bridgerton taking that sort of payment from her made her cheeks hot.
OR: local cowboy offers to help farmgirl dig a well (aka cowboy colin meets prairie girl pen)
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- Part 1 of Cowboy Colin
- Language:
- English
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- 40,179
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- 1/1
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- 439
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05 Feb 2025
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Recalibrate by canarysingingsweetly for bumbershootindeed
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
31 Jan 2025
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Weddings. So many weddings.
And at each one, Penelope, a traveling journalist, and Colin, a traveling social media influencer, find each other again.
As they reconnect after many years, they revisit their past with one another, and try to determine whether or not either one of them are ready to stop flying away.Part of the event: New Year's Polin
hosted by @hp13-creates.bsky.social (hp13_writes on AO3)
Prompt: ChampagneSeries
- Part 1 of Recalibrate AU
- Language:
- English
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- 34,480
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 1
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- 347
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- 1,070
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- 288
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- 23,907
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02 Feb 2025
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hold me while i wait by usuallysunny
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Jan 2025
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“Penelope.”
“Please do not marry her.”
It just came flying out of her mouth, pulled unbidden by his achingly gentle whisper of her name.
She felt him stiffen.
“What?”
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An alternate ending to 1x04. Penelope runs to Eloise for comfort after her conversation with Marina, but finds Colin instead. Featuring a Polin hug.
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11 Jan 2025
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invisible string by britishteacup (littlebritishteacup), itwasglorious
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 Mar 2022
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At ten she first enters his life. At eighteen he falls in love with her. At twenty-six he loses her.
Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton meet at eight and ten. He dreams of making it big as a musician, she dreams of staying close to home. But somehow, something keeps them together, some invisible strings keeping their lives intertwined, even when they don’t want to be.
And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?
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- Part 1 of invisible string
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 92,886
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 913
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- 1,621
- Bookmarks:
- 488
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- 66,367
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05 Jul 2024
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so come give me a hug (if you're into getting rubbed) by DollyPop for Stillpink
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Jun 2022
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The three times Colin and Penelope were just cuddling. You know, as friends. That's all. Really.
And the one time-
Well, you know.
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- Part 1 of Toucha-Toucha-Toucha-Touch Me
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,722
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 117
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- 3,112
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- 810
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- 66,493
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22 Jun 2024
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help me when i fall to walk unafraid (i’ll be clumsy instead) by thispapermoon
Fandoms: The Worst Witch - All Media Types, The Worst Witch (TV 2017)
03 Mar 2018
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She picks up one of the chess pieces and fingers it fondly. “I must admit, I had a bit of a hot head in those days. I believe I told everyone that they probably couldn’t win if they played against me anyway - that the logic was much too complex for them. But if they did dare, I’d go easy on them.”
“And what happened,” Mildred rests an elbow on the table and leans closer, intrigued.
“Well, this girl I hardly knew, who never spoke except for in class, but who always got top marks, sat down across the table and informed me that so long as I explained the rules to her, there was no need to go easy.”
“Miss Hardbroom?!”
“That’s the one,” says Pippa grinning at the memory.****
Mildred suffers a heartbreaking loss, but as she grows up she discovers that family comes in all forms.
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08 Jan 2019