GentleWriter44
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Scrolling with Friends by GentleWriter44
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Jan 2026
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Colin and Penelope are guest hosts on a podcast that reviews Reddit posts, including one from a man who was in love with his best friend. Will the story and comments lead to a crucial conversation by our favorite best friends?
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A Wife? for Christmas by GentleWriter44
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
21 Dec 2025
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Penelope Featherington is finally going to tell Colin Bridgerton that she would like to be more than friends. But she has an accident that leads to a head injury. Colin Bridgerton is looking forward to spending some alone time with is best friend Penelope, but never expected that time to be in a hospital, and cannot understand why everyone thinks that she's his wife.
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Bridgerton Halloween Spooktacular by GentleWriter44
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
20 Oct 2025
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OCTOBER 2025 NOTE: Epilogue added, along with minor edits to each chapter - nothing that changes the story in any way.
Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington have been best friends and soulmates for 10 years, both secretly wanting more. At the annual Bridgerton Halloween Spooktacular, a costume snafu results in Penelope confessing things to Colin while thinking she was speaking with Michael. Smooth sailing after that, right?
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Interpretation of a Dream by GentleWriter44
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Oct 2025
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Penelope is having repetitive, disturbing...naked...dreams. Colin helps her interpret them.
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Yours, In Friendship and In Love by GentleWriter44
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Aug 2025
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**NOTE: Added another chapter in July and will add an epilogue.
What if at the end of Season 2, Benedict encouraged Penelope to confess her feelings to Colin. What if Penelope and Benedict heard Colin's horrible words and Colin found out? What if Colin had a semi-good reason for saying he'd never court Penelope?
This is a reimagining of the end of Season 2 and Colin and Penelope's HEA.
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The City That Never Sleeps by ktbeets, xxPrettyLittleTimeBombxx
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Jun 2026
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When a 24-hour layover finds Colin and Penelope in the same city again, he insists on making each of those hours count.
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Pen sends a risky text to Colin even though they're at a family gathering. Even though they're not together. Even though they have never, EVER done anything of the sort before. But it's just a joke, so it's probably fine, right? Right???
Bookmarked by GentleWriter44
29 Jun 2026
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“What’s wrong?”
“Erm… well… fuck. Ok. Colin.” She clears her throat. “I’m so sorry, but this is a call of shame.”
“A what?”
“A call of shame. I might… I might have chlamydia.”
“Oh.” MY FUCKING GOD. He doesn’t say that part out loud but he thinks it very loudly. “Ok.” She’s going to be freaking out.
“No. No, not ok. Not ok at all. We fucked!”
“I remember.” It is absolutely top of the wank bank.
“And not like sensible adults.”
“I remember that too.” If felt fucking incredible.
“So you might have chlamydia.”
“I understand how STIs work, Pen.”
Bookmarked by GentleWriter44
29 Jun 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Snappy and fun and sexy and cozy. So good.
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What a Barb! by StrawberryWhorecake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Jun 2026
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Colin's brothers, helpful sorts that they are, decide there's only one cure for his lingering virginity: a trip to a brothel.
The plan goes about as well as expected.
Convinced he's the only man in England incapable of wanting a stranger, Colin spends the next week wondering if something is terribly wrong with him.
Then Penelope Featherington makes one scandalously amusing joke, and Colin discovers that perhaps the problem was never a lack of desire.
Perhaps he's simply been in love with his best friend.
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the lies we told by wallflowerwrites
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
17 Jun 2026
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At Eloise's wedding, Colin hatches a plan to pretend to be dating Penelope, creating wild and elaborate stories. However, when one story hits too close to be fake, the pair have to face some home truths.
("You want me to fake date you at your sister's wedding?"
"Yes." He says simply, in all seriousness. "But we commit to the bit. Fully. We make it weird. Every crazy idea you could possibly have, we do. No matter how wacky, we tell people about it. We could have a lot of fun with it."
Selfishly, she thinks it would show her what it would be like to be his. Just for one night.)