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Years after Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Debling found love in a second chance at happiness, their adult children meet for the first time.
Poppy Debling and Elio Bridgerton are not siblings—only strangers newly tied by marriage—but when a chance meeting sparks something neither expected, desire quickly collides with propriety, reputation, and timing.
A next-gen Polin spinoff about forbidden glances, slow-burning longing, and choosing love anyway.
A continuation based on applepuffsilver's "i could hold you for a million years"
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24 Jan 2026
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blue dress on a boat by missparker
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Sep 2024
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Penelope's efforts to find herself a husband during her third year on the marriage mart are going poorly, but when she discovers that Benedict Bridgerton needs a wife as much as she needs the freedom a husband can provide her, they strike a deal and agree to marry.
But when Colin comes home from his travels to discover the engagement, he handles it poorly, to say the least.
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17 Dec 2025
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Feline Intervention by Penny_Feathers_Bright
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Jun 2025
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Colin and Penelope have been best friends their entire lives
Penelope is spending time with Alfie Debling.
Colin Hates Alfie Debling.
Alfie Debling is a cat.
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Cat Alfie: The one where Chaos Colin is beefing with a cat.
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24 Oct 2025
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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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07 Sep 2025
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Penelope drunkenly confesses her love to her best friend’s brother, leaving her mortified come morning.
Two months later, in a desperate attempt to move on, she brings her new boyfriend to the Bridgerton’s annual weekend away.
But if Colin Bridgerton doesn’t love her back, why does he look like he wants to kill him?
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15 Aug 2025