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Before the fights and the couples’ therapy and the slow, inevitable drift. Before the night he came home from work to find Marina on the sofa, pale and drawn, already knowing every word that was about to come out of her mouth (because the words were already on his tongue, weren’t they?). Before the thousands spent on divorce lawyers and moving into the sad flat Anthony found for him and having to tell the fucking kids (worst bit – Oliver had gotten so quiet and Amanda had cried silently; wouldn’t let either of them touch her).
He could have gotten out of it. Ben had called him and said we can find someone else in a way that made it very clear they probably couldn’t, and Colin being Colin (reliable; helpful – a dope, maybe), had said no, no, I’ll do it.
Which is how he ends up in Bari, parked in a service station in a cramped hire car; forty-five; divorced; and about to embark on a two-week trip across Italy he had booked in an attempt to save his marriage. Without, you know, his wife.
.OR: post-divorce, Colin Bridgerton takes his friend Penelope on a road trip to Italy
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Where Our Shadows Come to the Shore by gildedruin, Sea_Dragonfly for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Feb 2026
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When Penelope Featherington is dragged from her bed in the middle of the night, she’s told that her nom-de-plume has been uncovered. Not by the Queen as she’d feared, but by the men who murdered her father. There are debts to be paid far beyond her Whistledown earnings. Fortunately for Penelope, a mysterious figure from her past is set on protecting her at all costs.
A regency bodyguard AU.
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04 Apr 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?
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31 Mar 2025
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The Calm In His Arms by Bridgertonia
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Mar 2025
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Penelope Featherington is trapped in Iceland when a volcanic eruption closes the airport.
There's one way home, by ferry, from the other side of the island. But the only way she can get there in time is by catching a lift with Colin Bridgerton - the first man she fell in love with; the only man to break her heart. And someone she has avoided for the last ten years.
OR: A road trip during which Penelope discovers she hates vanlife, but her feelings about Colin are far more troublesome.
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11 Mar 2025
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One Night by Aubreyhalloway
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV) RPF
05 Feb 2025
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Pen nodded and took another sip of her beer. Of course! Of course, Eloise was a Bridgerton! Why wouldn’t the universe send her a new friend who was one of eight children and directly related to… the SISTER of…
“COLIN!” Daphne yelled and smiled over Pen’s shoulder.
Fuck!
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Colin and Pen have a one night stand. Then a few months later, Pen is introduced to her new friend, Eloise’s brother, Colin.
In this story the Featheringtons and Bridgertons were never neighbors. They didn’t know each other before we start this story!
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25 Feb 2025