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1. Every Ending is a New Beginning by Holiday_Hustle

   Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Colin Bridgerton & Penelope Featherington
   • Colin Bridgerton/Marina Thompson
   • George Crane/Marina Thompson
   • Past Penelope Featherington/Alfred Debling - Relationship
   • Colin Bridgerton
   • Penelope Featherington
   • Marina Thompson
   • George Bridgerton
   • Eloise Bridgerton
   • Phillip Crane
   • Alfred Debling
   • Anthony Bridgerton
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • but they were roommates
   • Love Triangles
   • Eventual Smut
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • but one sided enemy-ship
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Oblivious Colin Bridgerton
   • Guarded Penelope Featherington
   • Hardass Anthony Bridgerton
   • Friendship
   • Oral Sex
   • no sex between non Polin characters
   • Colin Bridgerton has brother issues
   • Flashbacks
   • Polin HEA
   • Angst
   • Work in progress - please be aware that these characters are changing and growing as the story progresses
   • Penelope and Colin have exes
   • Polin in their 30s
   • Book age gap
   • covid mention

   Summary

   It’s clear to Colin and everyone around them that George still has feelings for Marina but it’s unrequited. Marina promised Colin it is unrequited, murmuring that she just feels bad that George is unable to move past his first love.

   It’s pathetic. Colin moved on from Tessa easily. Anthony moved on from Siena. Daphne moved on from Frederick.

   “Penelope!” Portia called out, waving her daughter over.

   Colin throws back the last of his drink.

   And Penelope moved on from him.

   -

   After spending the last five years as a reluctant participant in a love triangle, Colin finds himself suddenly single at thirty-five. With a bruised ego and a broken heart, he's forced to rebuild his life.

   The perfect place to start is by fixing his friendship with his former best friend, Penelope Featherington, who finds herself in desperate need of a flatmate.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   29,549

   Chapters:

   6/12

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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