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    "Anthony," he starts in a whisper before pursing his lips. "My brother…"

    Penelope rolls her eyes. "Yes, your brother the Viscount. I am familiar with him."

    "Hush," Colin retorts. "Benedict informed me this evening that Anthony… once had a mistress."

    She blinks at him for a moment in confusion, which he seems to take more as an expression of shock and he barrels forward before she has a chance to reply.

    "Before Kate of course!" he clarifies in a rush. "Well before they met even, but it is still rather confounding, is it not?"

    Penelope lets out a half huff, half chuckle sort of sound and leans her head back against the headboard to look her husband over for a moment. "Are you honestly telling me you were unaware that Anthony had a mistress?"

    Colin's jaw drops slightly before his eyes narrow. "You knew?"

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    Or, the Polin smutty/ fluffy one shot inspired by the "mistress" exchange between Colin and Ben that I couldn't get out of my head.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    When Colin is cut off from his family’s money, he takes an unusual job working for a famed Dutch maestro. Unaware of his new career path, Penelope has her own reasons why she stopped talking to him and the rest of the Bridgertons and started focusing on her work at a publishing house.

    As luck would have it, Penelope’s first international scouting assignment in the Netherlands concludes early so she decides to attend a local concert and wear a brand new outfit.

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    26 Feb 2026

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    When Penelope woke up in a fancy hotel in Scotland, exactly three things registered in her brain, in this exact order.

     

    1. Today was Francesca and Michaela’s wedding day

     

    2. She was in Colin Bridgerton’s hotel room.

     

    3. Both of them were very naked.

     

    Fuck.

     

    (Well, that was a word she’d certainly used last night- though it was under much more pleasurable circumstances.)

     

    She’d really gone and done it now, hadn’t she? After all these years of pining for Colin, trying to accept that her love was unrequited, and also these last few months of pretty actively trying to get over him- she’d decided to get under him instead.

     

    Wonderful. Fucking. Wonderful.

     

    (And no- pun not intended.)

     

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    the one where Colin and Penelope get together the same way Monica and Chandler do - by hooking up at a wedding. Featuring Benedict and Eloise being the biggest cockblocks known to man.

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    13 Feb 2026

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    They had never been single at the same time.

    Unintentionally.

    By design.

    Until the night they were.

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    09 Feb 2026

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    "Now," the boy (Colin, Colin, Colin) says, as he eases himself to his feet languorously, so he looms and teeters upon the wall. Penelope's breath catches in her throat — she stares up at him in frozen terror as he reaches a long arm out to snatch the top of the cherry tree, his body bowing elegantly into the nothingness of open air. One wrong move and he will tumble, she is sure of it. "Penelope with the Greek name and lovely face and hair like fire," (Penelope wonders if she might die from blushing), "if I throw you down some of the sweetest cherries from the top of the tree," (he begins to pluck and twist the green stems, the branches shaking precariously), "the ones the sun has kissed to perfect ripeness, the kind of cherries you have never tasted before in your life," (he pops one in his mouth and gives the rest of his speech pouted around it), "even as the daughter of a duke who always tastes the very best of everything — well, do you think you might favour me with a smile?"

    Oh, she thinks (for even at fourteen she is decisive; knows her mind well). I am in love.

     

    On the day she finds out she is to be married, Penelope falls in love

    Renaissance Era AU

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    03 Feb 2026