#Established Kathony

[stars-of-kyber]

Lost, Drifting - Chapter 9 - I could have danced all night

""So, you finally asked the good nurse's blessing to propose to the chit, have you?!" "No?" Anthony frowned at his friends. "I've asked her blessing to court Kate." The surprise in the other men's eyes morphed into confusion. "I couldn't simply skip the courtship entirely and ask for her hand like that, could I?" "I'm sorry," Edgar cleared his throat, putting his cards down on the table. "Were you two not already courting?!""

_______________________________________________________________ Anthony plays cards with his friends and a dance that was long overdue finally happens.

Hello, all!

It is I, Cee! Writing this story again because I love it so very very much! For those of you still hanging around, I love y'all very much, thank you for all the comments, all the support, you're the best! We're now watching Anthony and Kate build their lives together, so some fluff is coming in the next few chapters. I wrote it with all the love, I hope you like it. I have to say my 100000000000 thanks to my lovely bestie beta @harnitbee, because this story would not be here it it was not for her. Like literally, she sat listening to me blab for HOURS over what would come next for this story, gave me ideas, had a lot of patience bc fucking hell, I can talk a lot, and then betaed my work and assured me it's not trash. Seriously she's an amazing human. Thank u bestie! Happy reading, Enjoy!

[sea-owl]

After Season 3 of Colin and Penelope, which Bridgerton siblings would you like to see take center stage in Season 4 and what changes would you love for Shonda to do that’s different from the book version?

Honestly I see either Benedict or Eloise for season 4 depending how the show will set them up in season 3. Because to be totally honest neither are ready yet.

Eloise needs to get her act together and learn some empathy. Which I'm hoping we'll really see start happening this season and she continues to learn in season 4. Because the way it is currently being set up at the moment, she's gonna face her biggest challenge in empathy, and her biggest challenge of realizing that feminism benefits everyone, will be Phillip. A lot of the things she complains about, the silent and married line, and choices being limited or taken away, Phillip has gone through. I think it would be interesting if they took the approach of Eloise becoming a governess to the twins because one it will get her doing something and two it will get her out of the ton she hates so much. The twins would be about the right age too, most families started using a governess at about ages 3-5. Basically starting them during the preschool years. Also, selfishly, it would give me a regency era version of the Nanny, but I don't have to wait six years for them to get together. Be also intresting to see Eloise tearing into that awful nanny and for us to dive into the social difficulties of governesses. Also I hope we get to see Eloise trying to involve Phillip with the twins education and nerdy/academic Phillip comes out. I do see kathony's kid being the one who gets sick instead of Benophie's. They moved Romeny Hall closer to Aubrey Hall so that's probably gonna come back to play a part.

Benedict, for his story with Sophie, gives up all the comforts and safeties his life can afford him because he loves her that much. But at the same time, Benedict has practically been on a one man island for each of his subplots. Besides being a rake which we've already seen two married and happy, really what is show Benedict giving up? I think we need to see him more involved in the ton and more involved as a second son. Have it established what Benedict himself truly has by his birthplace and show us why it would be so difficult for him to give it up. I think involving him more in the ton will also show viewers the insecurity he's supposed to have that he can't be told apart or separated from his siblings. This leads me to hope Penelope writes a cheeky article at one point on how to tell the siblings apart because that's how Sophie knows she's talking to Benedict the first time. I'm not against the be my mistress aspect because I think it will play an interesting battle of morals between the two. The blackmail and physical fights they get into I can do without. One thing that I do NOT want changed is Posy. Me and Shondaland gonna fight if they get rid of my girl Posy. I love her relationship with Sophie and their paraelles between one another as they both escape their abuser. People love the jail scene for Benedict calling Sophie his fiancé and Violet subtley threatening Araminta. I love the jail scene because both Sophie and Posy stand up to their abuser and choose each other.

But yeah I can either Benedict or Eloise depending how the story is goes.

[cannedkopi]

So, after watching the first 4 episodes of Bridgerton season 3, I have a few first, very, very random thoughts.

Spoilers ahead - you have been warned.

A disclaimer beforehand - all my comments pertain to the characters and storylines, not the actors, who did the best they could with the material they were given. Just so we're clear on this.

Sadly, the rumours were true, and we got only one episode of Kathony in the first part. But damn, they made it count!

Also, I am just gonna say it, it is now officially canon that Anthony loves to eat out his wife. Last season already established that, but this season cemented it. End of story.

I absolutely love Francesca! She is so different from her siblings, being the one who does not want to be in the spotlight and prefers peace and quiet. It is so fitting! Though her comment regarding marrying to just get it over with and especially settling for whatever match the queen might present to her? That gave huge season 2 Anthony vibes.

Speaking of season 2 - Francesca being questioned by the season's bachelors as well as her comment about being "inspected like a rare insect" reminded me of Anthony conducting his interviews when he was looking for a wife. Mhm...

Edwina making a "splendid match abroad" to me means that Edwina marrying Friedrich is now canon. Change my mind.

Good god, Colin is obnoxious and pretentious when he comes back from his travels. How on earth is this man considered a catch? He is self-absorbed and arrogant and I would just like to point out that he is a third son who has learned no trade, never contributed to the family estate in any way and is basically living off of his family's money. I have already read some comments that Colin's new persona is a facade he needs to shed before he truly can be with Penelope just as she needs to come clean to Colin about being Lady Whistledown, and I can kinda get behind that, but let's see.

There were several interviews in which it was said that Benedict will have a newfound purpose this season, and after 4 episodes I am wondering, is that new purpose just taking over managing the estate when Anthony and Kate are on their honeymoon and shagging Lady Tilley Arnold? Because if that is all, then I feel very, very sorry for Ben.

Lady Arnold somehow reminds me of Star Trek Voyager's Seven of Nine. I think it's the hair. Go figure...

Lord Debling is awesome. He's the one new character I want to see more of. Give him a decent storyline for the remainder of the season and maybe a proper love interest. No, not Cressida.

And while we're speaking of Cressida, sorry, but I did not buy the entire "she is only mean because she's been treated badly by her parents" storyline.

That speech Violet gives Colin in the fourth episode? About Colin being "one of her most sensitive children, always aware of what others needed" and someone who rarely puts himself first? And then saying that she can imagine it being wearing at times to live to please others? Did that woman somehow mix up her children? That first part should really have been meant for Benedict and the second for Anthony last season.

The costumes were even less regency than in the first two seasons, and while I get that this is a creative choice and in my mind Bridgerton is a Regency inspired fantasy world anyway, I would have loved to see more era appropriate silhouettes.

Ok, rant over. I might change my mind on a few of the above as I rewatch the episodes and maybe after the second part od season 3 streams, but maybe not.

Did, I enjoy the new season. It was ok. As they say, not great, not terrible. Will I rewatch it? Of course I will. Will I watch the second part? You bet I will. Did it give me inspiration to write something? Very much so.

So watch this space.

[ao3feed-kathony]

Fair Play

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/54261877 by Stars_of_Kyber In hindsight, agreeing to Edmund and Miles's request had been a mistake. ____________________________________________ Ned and Milo ask their parents for a family Pall Mall game and Kate and Anthony try to hold their competitivity at bay. Words: 3262, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Edmund Bridgerton II, Miles Bridgerton Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Anthony Bridgerton & Edmund Bridgerton II & Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma & Miles Bridgerton Additional Tags: Family Fluff, Competitive Lunatics, attempts were made, An apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, Established Kathony, they can't help themselves, Friedly (but not very) family Pall Mall Match, Funny, Family read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/54261877

[pensbridgrton]

In the show do you think Polin's son will be the Featherington heir? I feel like there's very little chance it won't go that way, but also I really want them to keep Agatha 🥺 I love that bond between Lady D and Pen and I'm kind of afraid it won't happen, because they kind of gave it to Kate.

We already had Saphne's first child changed to a boy and I can't see Kathony not having Edmund.

while i love agatha in concept, given that it's very unlikely we're gonna see pen and danbury have a similar relationship from book to show, i really don't think show polin would name their daughter agatha anyway. in the show, lady danbury is an older black woman and having her fulfill the magical older woman matchmaker trope is... something. and you're right, they did emphasize kate/danbury in s2 so i doubt they'll repeat it since they've already shown they don't want to repeat tropes/roles even if it does in the books. (me, being bitter: except with daphne playing the matchmaking role for kathony instead of colin)

(i do think we might pen/qc bonding in some way though... maybe their daughter's name will be charlotte?? which oof poor kathony baby... unless they rename her to be chandra - as they should anyway. chandra & madhav supremacy over here)

idk what the show is gonna do with polin children bc... frankly, they're so young on the show in comparison to the books (my biggest issue with s3 polin but i digress) that i hope we don't mention kids until s4 maybe. but yeah, i do think we'd get thomas - if not first, maybe twins or something, to establish that yeah, colin and penelope inherit the featherington estate.

(shout out to leaf who keeps saying that colin's purpose on the show is gonna be to run the featherington estate...... and when i say shout out i mean, burn it with fire i hate it so much and that's exactly why she's correct)

[bridgertonbabe]

Are you taking friends au asks?

I was wondering who gets Rachel at Monica's wedding role? Where she discovers she is pregnant but refuses to say by whom.

Almost any of the couples could fit, from Kathony to polin to philoise to Hyareth.

Whose the Daddy?

So because of everything I've already established in this AU, this story doesn't exactly fit with any one of the Bridgerton couples since they all respectively get together before getting pregnant, meaning nobody can fulfil the "who's the daddy?" element of the plot.

However, I am willing to explore some of the Rokesby series in this AU; and out of those pairings I could potentially see either Andrew and Poppy or Nicholas and Georgie.

Andrew and Poppy could work in hooking up without realising her cousin is married to his brother, and then later on at Nicholas and Georgie's wedding, Billie is consoling Poppy after she's found out she's pregnant. Poppy wants to tell the father but doesn't know how to go about finding him - only to exit the toilets and walk right into Andrew where calamity then ensues.

Alternatively it's at Andrew and Poppy's wedding or maybe even Edmund and Violet's vow renewal where Georgie discovers she's newly pregnant and the shock among the Bridgerton and Rokesby clans occurs when they learn that Nicholas is the father after the pair hooked up at baby Colin's christening six weeks previously.

[folklauerate]

i loved your ant/kate/simon fic though i would love to see them as a throuple. in your opinion what kind of dynamic they would have ? other than being obsessed with each other

Alright, this is probably going to be a long response and not at all for the thing you expected, so buckle up lol.

First of all, thanks so much! That was a oneshot I wrote for @grantairesbottle because Nel asks and I deliver lol. I was mainly just frustrated that I couldn’t puzzle together a way for all three of them to do it; I kept trying to figure out exactly how the dynamics would work. I talked to Nel and Amanda about it a bunch until it made sense, and that oneshot was born!

I don’t think I’ll return to that universe, nor do I have a definitive answer on how they are in a throuple in that AU; sometimes my fic writing is more like an exercise. The Kathony twoshot I wrote called Office Hours was also a writing exercise; I just wanted to write something really smutty and see how I could make it work. Anyways, all this to say—I have some idea of what the future looks like for those three in that AU but I’ll leave it up to the readers to decide if they’re even a throuple at all or what their future looks like! :)

However, I’m so glad you asked about Anthony/Kate/Simon because they actually are a throuple in the Singing in the Rain AU I’m writing :) also for Nel lol!

(Important to note that this is a Singing in the Rain AU but it’s also sort Babylon and Gatsby inspired, and it’s also really about the death of the American dream. So it’s gritty and darker and more salacious and sexy and hardened than SITR is, like waaaaay more.)

I’m stoked to talk about it mainly because the AU focuses on Ben/Sophie, and the Anthony/Kate/Simon pairing is in the background, so it doesn’t feel like I’m spoiling anything. In this AU, Simon and Anthony are childhood best friends. Simon’s dad is terrible and abusive, and Anthony is really his only friend, and the two of them have a really deep friendship that blossoms into a relationship. Because it’s the 1920s, they have to keep it under wraps. When we meet them in the AU, they’re already established studio heads (Simon) and producers (Anthony). Simon is a fake relationship with Daphne (a lavender marriage, if you will), and Daphne, an actress, has a secret and fun on-off thing with longtime rival, Cressida Cowper. Anthony is a silent producer on a lot of Simon’s films and isn’t in the public eye, but he’ll still be photographed with girls hanging off of his arm at parties to keep appearances up.

Enter Kate.

So Benedict is the actor in this AU, playing the Don Lockwood type character, and he’s doing a play in Los Angeles that Kate is the set designer for. Anthony goes to see the play and is entranced by the sets, the paintings, everything. It’s an adaptation of Much Ado that has sets made to look like a beautiful countryside estate—the sets remind Anthony of Aubrey Hall, which is likely due to the fact that Ben described the estate to Kate, who used that as inspiration while doing the set design and building sets. (Important to note that this is a small production done with friends, which is why there’s so much collaboration and overlap happening in roles, and all because Ben is trying to be a “proper artist” and refuses help from Simon and Anthony to be launched in films, because he thinks they’re not real art, but he, of course, changes his tune.). ANYWAYS Anthony goes to the opening night party and insists on talking with the set designer and Ben introduces him to Kate. He’s taken aback—and half in love—but she misinterprets his shock and thinks he’s making fun of her, or doesn’t believe that a woman could have done it.

Anthony, however, is a rat boy, and he’s not letting cheese girl get away so easily.

He comes to every show and hangs around and tries to hire her. She’s wary of this big Hollywood producer trying to come and bring her onto a big set, doesn’t really trust him. But they’re them, and they fall for each other anyways, and he hires her to come work for him. They try and stay away from each other but he keeps hanging around sets while she’s working, which he’s never done before, and tongues start wagging.

What becomes a touch tricky is Simon. Simon has never loved anyone other than Anthony, and to be fair, until Kate, he never loved anyone other than Simon. But this complicates things. I’m skipping some stuff, but after some long conversations and some misunderstandings and things, Anthony and Kate get married, but Anthony and Simon continue to have a relationship. Kate is not involved in it necessarily, though she’s friends with Simon as well, and sometimes all three of them will 👀 but not always. That’s sort of the understanding; they’re a throuple, although Kathony are married (bc it’s acceptable to be), but those close to them know there’s three people in the relationship.

That’s sort of all I can say without spoiling the ending (which isn’t necessarily happily ever after for everyone!) but yeah :)

[alrightsnaps]

what do you think of the queen charlotte show

*deep sigh*

well.

to state the obvious: i think that no one in the bridgerton fandom would have minded this show if it weren't for the shitty treatment of the bridgerton series by shondaland. some may have loved it, some may have passed on it but in either case there would have been no hard feelings.

the problem is that at this point shonda is using a show that's supposed to be about the bridgerton family for her own OG characters, while screwing over the canonical protagonists.

it's one thing to make a spin-off about an OC. it's been done before. as a matter of fact when i first watched s1 (before i read the books and waaay before the disaster of s2) i remember being intrigued by the charlotte/george scenes. but combined with what's become of the main show? where instead of focusing on the bridgerton fam (spouses included obv) and expanding on them half the screen time is about trashy plotlines of the featheringtons and queen charlotte obsessing over some gossip rag writer? where the most beloved couple received #that treatment in s2 and kate was little better than a supporting character in anthony's story? well.

plus the whole social media thing is just the production provoking fans atp. what spin-off doesn't get its own accounts for promo?! why do they call it a bridgerton story when it has nothing to do with the bridgertons and there's not even a bridgerton character in it?

with that out of the way: my honest opinion after seeing the trailers is that it's gonna be a bingeable show. unlike s3, which i honestly believe is gonna be a snoozefest outside the 5 minutes kathony, frannie and benedict get, QC has a very strong female lead in india, the chemistry with the male lead is there and arsema’s lady d and young violet will probably steal the show too. the story looks compelling enough for it to be a big success.

there's the issue of the shitty plotline of king george marrying a black woman and “uniting two societies” but ig we'll have to wait and see how that plays out. at least im glad that from what we've seen so far it seems that black people have been an established part of the aristocracy way before the george/charlotte marriage (charlotte’s brother makes a comment about them coming from a european aristocratic bloodline or something and lady danbury is a lady) so at least it won't be like. king george marrying a woman from a socially ostracized minority and that magically bringing equality to the realm. then again i may be underestimating shondaland’s ability to fuck up and i’ll be eating my words. it's happened before when it comes to bridgerton predictions and will probably happen again.

but entertainment wise it shows that it'll be good.

[sukibenders]

Why is it that the bridgerton “fandom” always seem to think it would be such a good storyline that Anthony - the only male lead with a dark skin woc female partner (so far) - should have an illegitimate child? Like, can anyone explain it to me beyond the obvious racism/colorism, because that’s all I’ve got? Will this fandom ever be normal about Kate Sharma? All signs point to no. People want to hate Anthony a white male character so badly they step into misogyny and racism against a brown female character as easily as they do a warm bath.

Damn, an illegitimate child storyline? I haven't caught any wind of that, especially towards Kathony, so this ask was a little surprising. Not saying that it doesn't exist, but if so I get your frustrations. It is very telling that people would want the only white male lead, so far, with a dark skin brown female lead to have some sort of outside entanglement, probably with another white character because that's how people who push this narrative usually think of and think that that would be a reasonable plot. Not only does it go against Anthony's entire character (he might have been a rake back in the day, but not a cheater, especially not with Kate). I see this reoccurring trend with a lot of woc/white male couples where undercut racism is so apparent but under the guise of thinking they're only making narratives that fit the characters, even when that's not remotely true. Why do you [referring to the people in question] think that this white male lead, who has only shown romantic interest for his woc love interest since they met/got together, would all of a sudden cheat on them (and when we get into them using a white character, most of the time one who may have had a romantic storyline with said male lead that has long since been put to bed)?

Like, while Anthony may not be my favorite and I have a lot of gripes with him, I can't stand when people mischaracterize him as worse or make nonsensical claims, especially going as far as to say that he would cheat. Like, him in season one (and some of season two) might have poor communication and intimacy issues (seeing as how he treated Siena and some of his treatment toward Kate) but it's been well established, especially in season two, that he is an honorable man (in regards to at least staying faithful and not having a child out of wedlock). If my memory fits me well, a big reason why he breaks up with Siena is due to her profession and sets out to find a wife through high standards of expectations. He may be hypocritical at times, but he is in no way a cheater.

[stars-of-kyber]

Good Morning Starshine

Summary: Anthony and Kate cannot figure out who's playing I'm Still Standing at their Alexa and waking up their children at an ungodly hour in the morning.

In honour of the 12th of October being Brazilian Children's Day, have this silly little thing I did inspired by a video I sent @mimix007 on Instagram.

It's just Kathony family fluff.

Enjoy!

[the-greendalehumanbeings]

to anthony it was also a competition with kate, to prove himself to her in his own clown logic. my best explanation is that he wanted to be around kate, win their arguments (without realizing what his feelings were) and defend his character, but she was always shutting him down, closing the door, leaving the room. so he resorted to manipulative and pushy methods like how he got to sit with edwina and kate at ascot, coming to a party he wasn't invited to, and courting edwina so hard so kate had to tolerate his presence. i think he really didnt care that edwina would get hurt because he was self-centered about his own wants. even in ep 1 it said said to his douche friends the difficulty is finding a wife while "wooing the piece" would be easy - i don't think he cares much about his wife's wants beyond children, he cares more about qualities of a viscountess. my interpretation is that while he says he doesnt want his wife to grieve like his mom did, he's also terrified of losing someone else he loves. throughout the show he doesn't consider any feelings his wife might have for him but is more concerned with choosing anyone with the right qualities that he knows he won't love. esp after ep 4 it's clear he's more spooked at falling in love himself, in ep 5 it's clear he doesn't pay attention to edwina anymore now that they're engaged. he really doesn't care if he hurts her what with the way he's acting around kate, then trying to get out of the engagement without concern for edwina's heartbreak until kate begs him.

but also it's just a lot of bad writing! and i realize i'm rationalizing and giving more thought to this than the actual writers did!! anthony's not the only character they had doing whatever needs to get the plot to the wedding. i think there could be something to be said with anthony's character about unaddressed trauma unintentionally hurting innocent people around you because you're so focused on your own (emotional in this case) survival that you forget they have wants and needs too. but these writers are definitely incapable of handling that topic well lol

I don’t think Anthony viewed it as a competition with Kate. That makes him look even worse. I think the whole thing would actually make more sense to me if not for his actions in ep 2. He goes out of his way to woo Edwina with grand gestures. He buys her a horse. I also think people forget that he was willing to read Benedict’s love poem to Edwina and only stopped because of Kate and Violet. So if he was alone with Edwina he probably would have read it. Which was strange because if he just wants friendship in a marriage, why is he reading her poems about love. I could believe book!Anthony’s courtship of Edwina because he did the bare minimum and expected his title to do the work for him. Which made sense for someone who didn’t want love in their marriage.

But also, if his motivation that he was afraid of loosing someone he loved, the whole thing would have made more sense. His motivation of not leaving behind a grieving wife didn’t match up with his actions. It’s only mentioned in ep 3 and then never brought up again. He doesn’t seem worried about this with Kate. Then in ep 8, it comes across more as Anthony is afraid of loosing someone that’s why he doesn’t want love. But I don’t think the writers wanted to admit that Anthony didn’t give a shit about Edwina feelings, just as long as he didn’t love her. So they had to give Anthony a more ‘selfless’ motivation.

[pixiemunsons]

communal kisses (bb)

modern day!au bridgertons

benedict x reader, colin x reader, hints of eloise x reader and anthony x reader, pre-established kathony, saphne and peneloise

thank you so much to my wonderful friend @user12829 who beta’d this and is such an adamant supporter of my work🤍

you want to kiss him. you should be more worried about who you've kissed before.

‘what do you mean, i’m the only one here you haven’t kissed?!’

you rolled your eyes, taking another sip of your beer before you looked in benedict’s direction. secretly, you had always wished he was the only bridgerton you’d ever kissed, but he had not long since come out of the year-long relationship which had dashed all hopes of the two of you ever becoming a couple.

‘i don’t know, you just aren’t. shit happens.’ you shrugged your shoulders before leaning back against the sofa, re-settling yourself on the carpeted floor where you sat with all of the older bridgertons, along with penelope, simon and kate. it was a saturday night, and that meant drinking at anthony and kate’s place. hyacinth and gregory were, begrudgingly, left out of these occasions as they were still underage, and francesca was somewhere off in scotland with her boyfriend. that left the rest of you to play some decidedly childish games. truth or dare always went this way when you were drunk - revealing your secrets to your best friends. you still regret the night anthony got a little too wasted and you found out way more about his sex life than you’d ever needed to know. you think kate does too.

‘if it helps, benedict, she punched me in the face as soon as i kissed her.’ anthony said, wincing at your glare. ‘anthony, i was fourteen years old. it was my first kiss. you caught me off guard.’ kate laughed aloud at this.

‘yeah, pretty creepy,’ eloise joked, going red and nudging anthony with her elbow. benedict looked at her with a furrowed brow, flicking his eyes between the two of you. he didn’t miss the look you gave her, and the way she shrugged her shoulders back, trying to avoid eye contact with him.

‘wait, really? eloise too?!’

you rolled your eyes, peering at him over the top of your cup as eloise flushed again. daphne looked like she might faint, and anthony was staring at you like he couldn’t believe his ears. ‘some dude was being creepy with me at the bar, so i kissed el and he fucked off. it wasn’t even a proper kiss. i mean, it was nice.’ the whole room was silent; they knew eloise liked girls, sure, but never you. eloise went even redder if possible when you leant over and patted her on the thigh, dropping your left eye into an exaggerated wink. you gave a gracious smile to her girlfriend, penelope. the two of them had gotten together not long after the kiss in the bar, and she smiled back at you happily before grasping her girlfriend’s hand; she knew you and el were nothing but best friends. after all, you had introduced the two of them.

‘i mean, she’s never kissed me either, if that makes you feel any better mate,’ simon offered to benedict, and daphne punched him in the arm. ‘what was that for?!’ he cried, and you snickered at the look on his face as he tried to explain what he meant to his fiancee. she turned her head to the group once more. ‘me neither, to be fair.’ she looked at colin expectantly, and her eyes bulged in their sockets when he didn’t refute the allegations, choosing instead to pick at his cuticles.

‘colin, you’re being awfully quiet. what happened between you two? and why didn’t you tell me?’ anthony asked accusingly, and it was your turn to go bright red. no one was meant to find out - ever. colin looked into your eyes as if asking for permission, and you shrugged your shoulders, trying to look as cool as possible under the siblings’ burning stares.

‘we got drunk and made out at the flat, it’s not a big deal.’ glorious silence fell for about three seconds, before the room erupted in accusations and shouting.

‘why didn’t you tell me?!’ you heard anthony and kate cry simultaneously at the two of you, while eloise went into breakdown mode at the idea of colin kissing anyone, let alone someone so pretty. daphne was once more chastising simon, who was quizzing a very quiet colin about the circumstances of your dalliance. you, however, could only look at benedict. you didn’t want to admit to yourself that the expression on his face was one of upset, but it was the only way you could describe it. if you were honest, the kiss with colin had been his fault anyway, in a roundabout way.

───✱*.。:。✱*.:。✧*.。✰*.:。✧*.。:。*.。✱ ───

you were sat on the sofa in the flat you shared with colin and penelope, nursing your broken heart into a vodka. benedict had just announced that he had a girlfriend, sophie something, and you had finally realised that your unrequited crush would stay that way forever. you had texted the group chat you shared with your roommates saying you were having a bad night, but penelope was busy with eloise and some people from work. she had offered to come home, but you refused; colin was working a lot now that him and marina had broken up, so you expected to be left alone to watch pride and prejudice until you cried.

until halfway through the scene in the garden, when colin turned up with a bottle of wine to see you snotty and red-faced, already three drinks down and a bit more than tipsy. he had come to sit with you, pulling you into his arms with an ‘oh, y/n,’ and started drinking himself. the two of you talked for hours until your tears turned into laughter and the film turned into music and you don’t remember how it happened, really, one minute you were pouring him a new drink and laughing about something he’d said and the next you were pressed against his bedroom door and his lips were on yours. you knew why he was doing this, the break up with marina had been very difficult, but your alcohol addled brain was struggling to remember why you were here, right now, with colin’s hand snaking up your shirt and your lips on his neck until he groaned your name and his voice sounded just like benedict’s and you were crying again.

colin had pulled away as soon as he’d heard the tiny sob you’d let out, sobering up instantly, and he had pulled you into bed and held you tight.

‘i’m s-sorry col, i j-just-‘ he had cut you off with a hard stare, kissing the top of your head.

‘you don’t need to apologise. i still love her, too, y’know.’ you should have been surprised that colin had noted your affections for his brother, but he knew you better than almost anyone. he’d seen you look at benedict with such adoration over the years that he thought his brother was either blind or stupid not to see it. so the two of you had laid there all night, and when you woke up he promised to never tell a soul.

───✱*.。:。✱*.:。✧*.。✰*.:。✧*.。:。*.。✱ ───

benedict had broke up with sophie a year or so later, but colin had kept to his promise. he knew from the way benedict was now looking at him that his older brother really wasn’t very happy with him, but he pondered if that could be a very good thing. a very good thing indeed. in fact, before he could even think about it, he was speaking, much to your horror.

‘well, ben, i must say that you’re missing out. she’s a phenomenal kisser. in fact, as it’s your turn next,’ he nodded to his brother, referring to the game which now felt long-forgotten, ‘i dare you to take her into the spare room,’ he jammed a thumb behind him in the direction of the room, ‘and give her seven minutes in heaven.’

your mouth dropped open, and much to your chagrin, benedict looked very annoyed at his younger brother. if he turned you down, that would be so humiliating, but if he took you in there and then did nothing - well, you imagined, that might be so much worse. and just as enough time had elapsed to make you think that he really would let you down, benedict launched himself up from the chair he was in and took your hand, all but dragging you to the spare room. he was hard-faced, and you were worried about what he was about to say. maybe he’d tell you that you were disgusting for kissing his younger brother, or that he’d never liked you anyway, or that he didn’t want to kiss you. as these thoughts swirled through your mind, you were vaguely aware of benedict pushing you into the room and shouting ‘don’t even bother trying to listen in!’ before slamming the door and leaning against it. he had his arms braced against the wood, and you couldn’t help but admire his shoulders, and the way they pulled together then relaxed as he turned to face you.

‘do you fancy him, or something?’

the words took a moment to process, and your head shot up. you and colin were still living together, alone now that pen had moved into eloise’s place, and nothing more had ever happened between you. no sexual tension, no awkwardness, and you knew that everyone had been shocked when they found out that your friendship had ever taken a remotely non-platonic turn. so no, you definitely didn’t. 

‘no, i don’t. why would you even think that?’ you suddenly felt naked under his gaze, which was hard fixed on your face, and you wished you’d worn more than a corset and jeans.

‘i don’t know, y/n, maybe something to do with the fact i’ve just found out you’ve had his tongue down your throat!’ you shushed him and his shoulders fell ever so slightly, and when he spoke again it was more subdued.

‘when was it?’

you gritted your teeth, furious at his questioning. he had no right to ask about you and colin, not when he’d very much ignored you for years. colin was the only one with conformation, but all of his siblings and their partners saw the way you felt about him. how devastated you’d been when he started dating sophie, the way you bloomed when he was around. anthony for one didn’t think you could have made it more obvious, yet his stupid brother had been ignorant to it for so long even he was losing hope of anything happening between you.

‘it was when you and sophie got together. after him and marina broke up.’ you looked down at your shoes, knowing that if you were to make eye contact with the man in front of you, all composure would be lost and you would either confess entirely or break down into tears. so when his feet made their way into your line of vision and you looked up to see him inches from your face, you couldn’t help but leap back against the wall. but all he did was follow, calm as can be, studying your face as if he was memorising every last inch of it. your breaths mingled, and the beer he had been drinking alongside his expensive aftershave merged into a smell that was so benedict you thought you could be drunk off that alone. he gripped your chin with his thumb and looked into your eyes, whispering now.

‘was it because me and sophie got together,’ he breathed, ‘or am i imagining things?’ you gulped hard, eyes flicking between his lips and eyes. 

‘because if it wasn’t, we can forget this whole thing. your… fooling around with my brother-‘ you tried to interrupt him, tell him that you only kissed, but he moved his thumb across your lips and hushed you. you no longer thought you could breathe. you realised that his chest was pressed against yours, and he had slotted a leg between your own, and his thigh was dangerously close to-

‘y/n, darling, are you paying attention?’ your eyes shot back to his, and he had a playful shine in his brown eyes. ‘good. as i was saying, i can forget that you fooled around with colin,’ he gave you a pointed look, silencing you before you could speak, ‘but i’d rather not do that.’

you looked up at him quizzically, and his grin spread as he pressed himself impossibly close to you. you hoped he didn’t hear the whine that broke free from the back of your throat as he moved the hand that was not holding your jaw to your shirt, playing with the hair resting at the neckline.

‘i’d rather you admit that you like me. i’ve known for a little while, and i was planning on having a nice little conversation with you about it later, but then colin dropped that wonderful bombshell on us all and i couldn’t help but feel that your alliance lays with another bridgerton.’ you were trying to hide the shock on your face. he knew? and he wanted to talk to you? well, two can play at that one.

‘i guess it supposes on what the conversation was going to entail,’ you smiled up at him, bringing a hand to lay on his bicep. benedict cocked an eyebrow. you raised one back, prompting him. ‘well?’ benedict leant down, down to your chest, and unexpectedly licked a line from the top of your left breast to your ear. you let out a whimper, shifting under his grasp, which was now situated on your waist. he kept his lips at your ear.

‘i was going to tell you that sophie was a distraction from the fact that i am madly in love with you, and have been since i was nineteen. i was going to tell you that i want to be with you, and i want to keep you by my side, and i want to love you forever.’ his teeth nipped at your earlobe, and you sank into his hands a little more. ‘can you give me that, my love? can you allow me the honour of loving you?’

you reached a hand into his hair, dragging him back gently, and stroked down the side of his face. ‘i can.’

and then he was on you, hiking you up so your legs wrapped around his waist and pushing you so hard against the wall you were sure to have bruises. his lips crashed against yours and it was a mess of tongue and teeth, kissing as you’d wanted to for years. his hands were gripping your thighs as you sucked on his neck, teeth turning the delicate skin purple as he groaned against your ear. he moved his hands up until they rested firmly on your arse, gripping and moulding and whispering sweet promises about what he was going to do with you when you could just get back to his place when a knock on the door had him nearly dropping you. you thought he might kill anthony when his face popped around the corner, grinning madly at your dishevelled figures.

‘it’s been way more than seven minutes,’ he smirked, and you turned your back as you hiked up your corset. benedict instantly flew in front of you, shielding your dignity, and called out to colin. as you turned back, the younger bridgerton was now stood in the hallway next to anthony, and you smiled warmly at one another.

‘colin,’ benedict coughed, and he tore his eyes from you and looked back at his older brother. ‘you were right, she is a fantastic kisser. thank you. however, if you ever kiss her again, i’ll be forced to kill you with my bare hands.’ you slapped benedict on the arm, and he wrapped it around you, grinning.

‘i’m making no promises.’

[ao3feed-kathony]

This Time We Fall Together

by Stars_of_Kyber

Kathani Sharma’s fiancé was annoying and overprotective. And a hoverer. And a bloody hypocrite.

She loved the man with all her heart, really did, but by God, sometimes he did his damnedest to irritate her!

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A couple of months before their wedding, all Kate Sharma really wants is a good long nap, but she has to deal with a stomach bug and an overprotective fiancé.

Words: 13302, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Falling, Part 7 of Bridgerton Tumblr Prompts

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

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton, Violet Bridgerton, Mary Sheffield | Mary Sharma, Edwina Sheffield | Edwina Sharma, Daphne Bridgerton, Simon Basset, Eloise Bridgerton, Hyacinth Bridgerton, Gregory Bridgerton, Colin Bridgerton, Francesca Bridgerton

Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma

Additional Tags: Modern AU, Established Relationship, engaged kathony, Medical Emergency, Fainting, Fluffy, Family Fluff, stubborn older siblings, Honeymoon, People are surprised Kate Sharma took a Sick day from work, Workaholic idiots

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/48505591

[thekatebridgerton]

Reading your KATHONY mafia au made me go back and read about all the couples. The Polin fan in me though couldn't help but jump to conclusions when I read the words 'the betrayal'. They aren't dating so why would he feels betrayed? Unless... what if Penelope was working with Eloise as her informant, the infamous Lady Whistledown and to get her info she started going to the club. Eloise never told her brother (partly to mess with him and also because she knows he would blow Pens cover). Violet of course knows, and is one of the many reasons why she wants Colin to marry Penelope. I need the details dear author, you can not leave me hanging like that! Also, I just want to see the scene where Colin reacts and things get heated. Bonus if the club turns to out to be owned by Michael Sterling :)

Backstory on that Mafia au for Penelope and Colin you're right but I'll elaborate more like I did with the Kanthony one:

Yes the BDSM club is owned by Michael Stirling. He has his business hand in every sex related establishment of the criminal world. The less you know the better.

The thing is that Colin really thought that Penelope was this innocent Angel who basically spent all her free time volunteering at soup kitchens and writing articles for the Mayfair times, on organic food and why breathable fabrics would allow more movement to the modern women today.

And then his world view was shattered!

He follows Penelope into one of Michael's high end clubs and finds a very elegant and leather clad blonde wigged Penelope trading mafia secrets with the bad and dangerous of London.

The thing is that yes Colin discovers that Penelope is an informant for Eloise but more than that, her alias Lady Whistledown is an informant for everyone, she's a triple quadruple agent for the highest pocketbook. LW has been selling secrets to everybody in general that's the betrayal.

She's on Danbury's payroll, she's on Stirling's payroll, she's on the Eloise Bridgerton payroll, and now recently Basset & Beckett have her on speed dial.

And Colin would technically be okay with her secret job if he hadn't happened to find out because Penelope uses her Domme identity in Stirling's BDSM clubs as a cover during her business transactions with her clients minions.

Colin just thought she was acting suspicious he never expected to gets a sexy front row show of what Dominatrix Penelope does to little naughty boys while she did a demonstration of the perks of the club's newly renovated "room of mirrors" that he would be hard (really really hard) pressed to forget.

To be fair she was a complete professional with Theo when she did the demonstration. But there's only so much 'good boy' and 'be good for your mistress darling' that Colin can tolerate hearing from Penelope's red lips before going crazy.

And trust me the moment Penelope was done with her business with Theo, Colin stormed right up to her and they had the row from hell (the only thing stopping Colin from breaking Theo's neck in an instant was that he knew the guy was 100% working for Eloise money laundering scheme)

Penelope never expected Colin of all people to figure her ruse out, let alone corner her in the club of all places and demand an explanation. Good thing that in her Domme Whistledown disguise Penelope owed nobody nothing. If he wanted answers then he would have to stay and play in the club with her. If not, a good Domme never lacks willing partners.

And Colin who wants to have her desperately and has never been a sub in his life.... Lets her take control.

So what follows is a week long sex montage of Colin and Penelope trying to purge each other out of their system and hoping their friendship goes back to normal. (With a dash of highly dangerous criminal activity. ) Except it doesn't, Colin and Penelope realize that the more they sleep together the more they want to do it again.

And then there's the added threat of bomb fanatic Cressy Cowper having it out for Lady Whistledown at the same time Mama Danbury announces open season for her favorite criminally good snitch.

And Colin tries to convince Penelope to give up the job and marry him so he can offer his family protection. Except Penelope doesn't want to she wants to make a name for herself in the underworld. And in the end Colin decides that so does he.

So they plot to kill Penelope's enemies and take their place in the food chain as a new mafia branch under the Bridgerton umbrella

And so far that's the tea dear readers

[triviareads]

It was weird how the show insinuated Edwina would move into Bridgerton house with Anthony and all the kids and Violet would continue living there too. Especially since Anthony has his own apartment? Which was established in both seasons and is also true in TVWLM. Agreed with previous anon, it makes no sense that Anthony’s wife / Viscountess would have any real oversight on his siblings when Violet is still alive. And Violet will probably still be “shadow Viscountess” while Kate adjusts.

Number 5 exists in the books obviously. It would be incredibly strange if newlyweds Anthony and Kate are living with his mother and siblings in that house next season m. The Bridgerton house is quite iconic/recognizable now but Kanthony will likely feature a good amount in S3 and S4 so it’s not like that set will never be seen. They can still move all the other kids to Violet’s new house. If Kate and Anthony need anything it’s boundries and space from their families...

lol I mean, Violet and the kids should absolutely move imo. Give the newlyweds their space, ya know? Everything we know about Kathony indicates they're a very *demonstrative* couple- and def a PDA couple. Unless we finally want Eloise to learn how babies are made, they really should move.

Plus, aren't these people rich enough to have multiple houses in London alone? Move to a dower house or something, Vi.

Also, Anthony's apartment is a sex pad. He's not bringing the wife there.

[mermaidsirennikita]

I had the same thought about LW exposing Anthony and Kate and that being their impetus to marry. While we know the bee sting will happen, I kind of suspect it might be kept on the DL initially. Penelope will know somehow, though, and misreport it since it looks scandalous but was actually innocuous. Therefore thwarting the Anthony/Edwina engagement or wedding…

But LW reporting of an “affair” would be horribly humiliating for Edwina, fuck up their sisterly relationship, and have awful ramifications on the Sharmas reputations, which are already fragile. Yet I’m sure the show would spin it as Penelope being a well-intentioned/righteous “Kathony shipper” who wants to rescue Edwina from a loveless marriage, or some BS.

If so, it establishes a pattern of Penelope targeting more desirable WOC. And I do think we’ll see LW at her most vicious S2 - “hitting her lowest point” - and they’ll begin to redeem her the following season. But Penelope’s such a miserable, bitter person, I’m not sure how anyone can be expected to root for her as a heroine regardless.

To me, there seems to be a few schools of thought on Penelope. I think that if you've bought the sale with Penelope to the point that you dismiss her doing anything wrong, there's nothing she can do that will flip your opinion on her. It seems like a lot of these people project onto Penelope, to be quite frank--they're either so attached to book!Pen (who is a totally different character) that they pretend that show!Pen is like book!Pen... Just because it's like a "my Penelope, right or wrong"... Or, they project onto her for themselves. I see a lot of people say that they relate to Penelope because she's a wallflower, because she's fat, etc. I personally can't relate to being a wallflower--I think a lot of that really comes down to personality more than anything else--but I can relate to being bigger, and I just don't see myself in Penelope at all. I've said this before, but I find it... offensive... That she is the way a fat woman with a romance arc on mainstream TV (so hard to find!) is being portrayed. She's jealous, vindictive, and so insecure about her appearance that it's cliche. I just want a fat girl whose arc (especially her romance arc) doesn't involve negative feelings about her appearance for once.

Then, there's the school of thought wherein people want to like show!Penelope because they like book!Penelope, but the ice is getting thinner. If Pen does go after the Sharma sisters, I see that ice breaking a bit more. A lot of people love Kate. And I think that because Marina wasn't a main heroine and wasn't so beloved, people dismissed what happened to her (not... something I love). It's harder to dismiss it when your favorite is the one being targeted.

Then there's the school of thought that I belong to, where they've basically botched the character to the point that there's no getting her back. I've honestly yet to find a person who watches this show in my "real life" who likes Penelope. Everyone pretty much hated her.

I think that as much as they will try to frame it as Penelope being on the side of good IF she exposes Kate and Anthony (forcing Kate and Anthony to be together, "saving" Edwina from a loveless marriage)... There's a lot of bad going on with that. You're taking the choice away from all of them, for one thing--even if they were going to make dumb choices. And you're exposing Edwina and Kate to the world ~caprice and derision~ to paraphrase 2005!Pride and Prejudice. While also potentially fucking up their relationship as sisters.

And whether they play it as Penelope being jealous of attractive women of color, the fact that this was already a thing in s1 just makes it feel that way again. Like, damn girl. What's your damage with these women? Cressida Cowper has gotten less damage from Lady Whistledown, ffs.