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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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The Vessel and Her Handler by Anonymous
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Jun 2025
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In the Breeding Caste System, Vessels are the young women bred to produce children for the nation's many infertile couples, and Handlers are the young men assigned to be their caretakers. They aren't supposed to fall in love, but Penelope and Colin might just be the exception to the rule.
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24 Jun 2025
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i could hold you for a million years by applepuffsilver for Misandristmusings, jupiter_soups
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
16 Jun 2025
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Colin swallowed, looking at the amber liquid in his teacup. He had become accustomed to taking it without milk, as was fashionable in the drawing rooms of Venice. He felt as though he trembled upon a sort of brink, something shivering in his throat. He saw before him two choices and he paused, not knowing which to take.
He could cling to propriety. He could tell her Elio was very well; ask after her daughter Poppy; enquire about news of the Ton, and Whistledown, and everything could move along in its proper order until tea-time was over and he would have to leave with the little flower that had sprouted in his chest at her letters still dry and unwatered, stuck in the shade.
Or he could act. Step out of the shadows and into the light.
OR Widower Colin returns to England to ask the recently widowed Lady Debling if she returns his affections
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22 Jun 2025
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Where Our Shadows Come to the Shore by gildedruin, Sea_Dragonfly for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Oct 2025
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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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24 Apr 2025
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What if the Bridgerton family hadn't been understanding when Penelope revealed herself as Lady Whistledown? What if Violet's guilt at the falling out led the Bridgerton's to try to apologize to Penelope who was never going to accept it after the hateful words they threw at her?
What if Penelope is with child with no intention of telling anyone until they notice it for themselves, but no one visits her and she doesn't go out?
What if this is a story about how saying "I love you" has nothing to do with meaning it and how to come back to a place of acceptance and love?
**Read the damn tags!**
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