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  1. Public Bookmark 63

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    You think I do not want your help? I want nothing more! But I want you to help me for the right reasons!”

     

    “You are my wife! I took vows to protect you! What could possibly be a better reason than that?”

     

    Tears sprung to her eyes as she all but shouted, “and that in itself is the problem!” 

     

    “You are not making any sense, Penelope!” her husband yelled. “I do not understand you! I am trying to help you and I am still somehow failing you- What do you want from me?!”

     

    “I want you to help because I am me! Not because I am your wife!”

     

    Silence engulfed the room as the words settled in the air between them. All Colin did was look at her, eyes wide, as if she were a painting he was trying to process the meaning of. Penelope wished to speak, but every word she thought to say rose to her throat and lodged itself there, refusing to move even an inch. Finally, in a voice so small she nearly missed it, Colin asked, “what do you mean?”

     

    What if Colin and Penelope reconciled a little earlier in episode 8?

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    19 Feb 2026

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    After the Boys(TM) leave Konoha, Sakura is left all alone. Luckily, Kakashi doesn't abandon his teammates and takes it upon himself to make Sakura his apprentice, much to Lady Tsunade's frustration.

    Turns out, "Kakashi's Apprentice" is a position that comes with a lot of attention. Wanted or otherwise.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    “Colin was sure of it, it was her. It had to be her!
    On his most recent tour - and in her silence - he had read their previous correspondence with such frequency, that he would almost commit each letter to memory. He knew how she favoured alliteration for dramatic effect when describing something negative, or her hyperbole when describing the positive and fantastical. And her rhetorical questions to make one ponder. Not to mention her double entendres which were second to none.

    She was well versed in the act of story telling.

    She was a great writer.

    Penelope Featherington was Lady Whistledown.”

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    Colin returns from his second tour convinced and determined to find evidence proving Penelope is the nefarious gossip writer. He decides to spend the season both in the shadows and on the wall in hopes of understanding and catching her red handed.

    However, try as he might, Colin can not escape one simple fact: he is desperately in love with her.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    It is his sister’s wedding breakfast when Colin overhears the woman he has been courting talking to Lady Featherington – and before he knew it, he is engaged. To Penelope. Penelope, who is decidedly not the woman he has been courting.
    By God, he has not so much as gifted her a single bouquet of flowers, which one surely ought to have done before speaking ones vows. Guilt was eating at him. He feared an entire florist shop would not make up for his actions.

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    06 Feb 2026

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    “Thank you. For all your kindness. If I secure a proposal, it will be because of you.”

    She turns from him and takes one step before his hand darts out to catch hers.

    “Please do not leave,” he murmurs, thumb gently tracing the inside of her wrist, feeling her pulse leap under his touch, “not yet. There is still so much I need to say.”

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    Colin’s POV of the willow scene—and beyond.

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    04 Feb 2026