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Colin Bridgerton is given a chance to see the past through new eyes—and with it, the quiet heartbreak of the woman he’s destined to love. In the silence of memory, he discovers that the greatest wounds are the ones never spoken… and the truest love is the one that sees everything.
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“This is Penelope. She moved into the house across the way. She’s allergic to nuts, but she has her EpiPen.”
Five times Bridgertons decide to stop eating nuts, and the time Colin realizes he’d given them up a long time ago.
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Not Since Ibiza by AmyB_Writes
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Apr 2026
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What if, after enduring more pain than she could ever imagine, Penelope finally gave in and told Colin how she felt?
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“You don’t have to say anything. I get it.”
Penelope took three steps and felt a hand on her wrist. Colin grabbed her arm, pulling firmly, and spinning her around. His hand cradled her face as he bent down to kiss her, breathing her in as his lips covered hers.
That’s all it took for Penelope’s brain to short circuit. Colin was kissing her. It was soft and gentle, but sent sparks to all of her limbs. Her body turned into gelatin.
When they broke apart, she placed her hands on his chest, feeling the thud of his heartbeat underneath his shirt. His hand remained cradling her cheek.
“Why did you do that?” she asked quietly, her heart in her throat.
“I don’t know,” he breathed. He looked so young and scared suddenly. “I just felt like I should.”
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When the Past Knocks, He Chooses Her, on His Knees, With His Mouth, Between the Sheets by Starship_4321
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
16 Apr 2026
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Whistledown doesn’t just hurt Colin Bridgerton-it ignites him. The betrayal, the humiliation, the fury he can’t swallow, it follows him straight into a conversation at Bridgerton House. Kisses turn punishing, hands turn possessive, and Penelope, shaking, devoted, gives him what he asks for on a breath that isn’t quite permission. Then she cracks in his arms, and Colin realises with clarity: he’s one moment away from destroying the only thing he’s ever wanted to keep.So he changes. Not with apologies, but with proof. Colin becomes relentless in his devotion, soft where he was rough, patient where he was demanding, worshipful where he once took. He makes their marriage a sanctuary one night at a time: consent spoken like scripture, pleasure treated like a promise, Penelope’s body relearned with reverence until she’s laughing through tears… and coming apart again and again and again through every orgasm he gives her.
But just when trust feels real, when their sheets hold more healing than anger, Colin’s past with a certain Contessa comes calling with a consequence he never saw coming. He’s about to learn what it truly costs to outrun the man he used to be.
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50 years old Colin Bridgerton spends every Sunday morning driving for three hours to visit his old friend. Eventually, he decides he wants to stop visiting her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her instead... but Penelope does not like the idea at all.
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middle-aged polin try to overcome the past to be able to welcome a bright future that awaitsSeries
- Part 7 of Polin One Shots ⭐
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All The Way Home I'll Be Warm by LillyWhitefield
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
14 Dec 2025
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"You don't seem to be breathing enough."
"Colin."
"And every time we slide, your lips flatten into this little line—"
"I am a grown woman and perfectly capable of driving my own car in the snow—"
The wheels started sliding, so she drove into it, as she was taught.
But the car didn't recover.
It kept going.
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Driving to Aubrey Hall in a snowstorm for Christmas is more dangerous than Penelope expects.
And more enlightening, especially after she crashes into a tree, and Colin insists upon hashing out their problems in the freezing winter air.
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The day after Colin tells his brothers that he is not going to marry Penelope, she wakes up at Aubrey Hall with four young children and a husband who, as far as she remembers, just denied that he would ever want her.
Penelope has to learn to navigate a world in which she has suddenly become a wife and mother, and Colin a world in which his wife has no memory of being married to him.
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Don't Let Me Lose You As Well by Minathewise
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
27 Jun 2022
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ANON asked: Well you did ask for Polin prompts. What about an angsty AU based on the scene from little women where Laurie tells Amy not to marry. In this universe, Penelope never found out about Marina's pregnancy until Sir Philips arrival but Colin went ahead and married her. Years later she manages to fall in love and this time have that love returned by a handsome and wonderful earl, only for Colin to tell her not to marry him the day of the wedding.
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From my heart to you by WrensSymphony for audbooh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Dec 2025
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Somebody should really bubble wrap Colin.
Or, Penelope cares for Colin each time he's hurt, because of course she does.
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Penelope Featherington, 32, is successful and living what most would call a good life. Yet her world still seems to orbit around her longtime neighbors—the Bridgertons—and her dearest friends, Eloise and Colin. After a revealing family dinner, Penelope begins to question the life she’s built. Has she spent too long defining herself by the people around her? Maybe it’s time to step out of their shadow and finally become her own person. This is a story of growth, self-discovery, redemption—and, of course, finding love along the way.
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Field of Dandelions by Minathewise
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 May 2022
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In a world where love is predetermined by the soul and not the heart, Colin finds himself yearning for a woman that is not his destined pair. But the taste of his soulmate on his lips is a constant reminder of who he belongs with, of who he is supposed to love.
He is torn between the desire to be with the woman he loves, and the woman his soul has chosen for him.
(he's literally just too stupid to realize it's her)
Inspired by the-mini-muses prompt on tumblr <3Story Idea: Polin #33 - Soulmate AU
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You Made Me Feel Sadness I Thought You Were Supposed To Protect Me by PrincessMoody00
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
27 Apr 2022
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When Freshman Penelope hears Senior Colin complain about her and declares he would never date her, Penelope knocks Colin off his high pedestal that she always had him on. Colin quickly notices the difference in Penelope and is determine to make things right, though he may have to compete with Sophomore Theo Sharpe.
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Penelope struggles to get Aggie to eat, and Colin helps her, taking photographs along the way.
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One Annoying Arse by Agentrogers17
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
12 Aug 2021
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By now everyone knows Colin Bridgerton does not like to rush or is unable to rush when it comes to his feelings towards the curvy redhead. But what happens when one of his siblings decides to be interested in Penelope Featherington and his future with her is imperiled.
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Penelope had often dreamt of the day Colin Bridgerton would propose to her. But in her dreams, he would propose because he was madly in love with her. Not as some spur of the moment decision after discovering her biggest secret. Fortunately; Daphne is on hand to give Colin a lesson or two in how to propose to a girl properly and give Penelope the proposal she deserves.
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The Infinite Fall by HarmonizingSunsets
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Feb 2021
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“Don’t worry. A month will just fly by.”
Once he disappears into Eloise’s old room, Penelope winces because nothing just flies by when she’s with Colin.
Time slows down, the seconds suspending in the air as Penelope leans up on her toes, trying to latch onto them.
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Colin needs a place to stay and Penelope has an empty room.
You know where this is going, dear readers.
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Would You Do Me the Honour of a Second Dance by WorldofImagination18
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
30 May 2021
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Colin has never had many regrets in life. But announcing that he will never marry Penelope Featherington right in front of her, is probably his biggest. With some encouragement from Anthony and Benedict, Colin decides to make things right. And he finally realises the one thing that every one else has known all along.
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Colin Bridgerton always knew the redhead his younger sister was attached at the hip always had a special place in his heart. He just never realised that she fully owned it.
A journey through depression, body dysmorphia, self-love, and some other realisations.
TW: depression, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, body positivity (you can't imagine how many people get triggered by realistic plus size women descriptions)
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Penelope tells Colin about her secret identity two weeks before the wedding. But where she assumed he would be angry over what she wrote about others; she is surprised to find he is only angry over what she wrote about one person. Herself.
Or where Colin realises how Penelope views herself and is determined to set her straight.
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All's Well That Ends Well (To End Up With You) by Vakariaan
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
26 Jan 2021
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Penelope has been keeping a secret from Colin and Colin is determined to make up for all of the dances he has missed with her over the years.