#Nicholas Rokesby and Georgiana Bridgerton

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the pen's in my hand - 24. that boyish look that I like in a man

Set in the TV writers AU. You can find it on AO3.

He’s somehow blushing and smirking at the same time and it’s quite possibly the most endearing thing she’s ever seen.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Georgiana Bridgerton/Nicholas Rokesby, Sophie Beckett/Benedict Bridgerton Characters: Georgiana Bridgerton, Nicholas Rokesby, Sophie Beckett, Benedict Bridgerton Additional Tags: Hospitals, Love in the time of Injury, Nursing, Cottage in Scotland Summary:

When Benedict Bridgerton is injured on the Kilmartin Estate in 1905, there is only one person, his uncle, Dr Nicholas Rokesby would trust to assist him. Nurse Sophie Beckett.

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First Comes Scandal Book Review

First Comes Scandal

Author: Julia Quinn

Description: She was given two choices...

Georgiana Bridgerton isn't against the idea of marriage. She'd just thought she'd have some say in the matter. But with her reputation hanging by a thread after she's abducted for her dowry, Georgie is given two options: live out her life as a spinster or marry the rogue who has ruined her life.

Enter Option #3

As the fourth son of an earl, Nicholas Rokesby is prepared to chart his own course. He has a life in Edinburgh, where he's close to completing his medical studies, and he has no time -- or interest -- to find a wife. But when he discovers that Georgie Bridgerton -- his literal girl-next-door -- is facing ruin, he knows what he must do.

A Marriage of Convenience

Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆

Review: Four books, four brothers and four vastly different stories. And now, the last one has come to its end. The Rokesby lineage closes its final chapter.

This last instalment of the Rokesby storyline, First Comes Scandal, began wonderfully. The easy setting, the quick build-up and the plot-line itself made the story entertaining and immersive. 

I had long looked forward to reading about Georgianna Bridgerton, for her character is so uniquely her. Although, I must say, my surprise remained with me when her main love interest was revealed to be Nicholas Rokesby. For the longest time I thought it would be Andrew! Though I’m very happy it wasn’t in the end. I can imagine they would drive each other mad. 

What makes Nicholas and Georgiana a great pair is how much understanding and respect they have for each other. Even if they jest or get angered, there’s a modicum of that high esteem remaining. The trope chosen for this novel displays that in phenomenal manner. 

Nevertheless, there is a reason First Comes Scandal did not receive a higher score. It is far from outstanding, and to break my previous Rokesbys streak, less than seven out of ten stars, was a shame, really. The first half was highly amusing and up to previous standards. Yet…

There’s something about all Rokesby books that is too dragged out, too prolonged to be enjoyable. It usually happens somewhere in the middle, leaning toward the second-half of the story. However, First Comes Scandal stands out against it’s companion novels, for even after the usual “break” in pace, it made me lose complete interest around 80% down the line. It took me some time to resume my reading and what I found was predictable. The book didn’t end in an incredible plot-twist, nor something anywhere near surprising. 

That is not to be said that I didn’t like it, because I did. Not as much as previous instalments, but it was sweet and on par with the general storyline. Thus just… the same for another 50 or so pages. Alas, it got a bit repetitive and boring – it’s easy predictability a major flaw in making the story liven up and regain its footing. 

In conclusion, a decently good book, but sadly tapers down during its second half. Unsure if it’s the best ending to this series… Maybe Quinn would be up to another round of Rokesby novels? 

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Bridgerton book Guide

Julia Quinn

Prequels -

The Rokesby Series A Generation before the Bridgertons,

They were the Rokesbys

2016 Because of Miss Bridgerton Billie Bridgeton and George Rokesby

2017 The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband Cecilia Harcourt and Edward Rokesby

2018 The Other Miss Bridgerton Poppy Bridgerton and Andrew Rokesby

2020 First Comes Scandal Georgiana Bridgerton and Nicholas Rokesby

Collaboration

2023 Quenn Charlotte Quenn Charlotte and King George

Bridgerton Couple

2000 The Duke and I Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset

2000 The Viscount who loved me Kate Sheffield and Anthony Bridgerton

2001 An Offer from a Gentlemen Sophie Beckett and Benedict Bridgerton

2002 Romancing Mr. Bridgerton Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton

2003 To Sir Phillip, With Love Eloise Bridgerton and Phillip Crane

2004 When he was Wicked Francesca Bridgerton and Michael Stirling

2005 It's in His Kiss Hyacinth Bridgerton and Gareth St. Clair

2006 On the Way to the Wedding Lucy Abernathy Gregory Bridgerton

Epilogues

2013 The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After All + Violet Bridgerton

Bevelstoke Series (they know the Bridgerton I believe)

2007 The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Miranda Cheever and Viscount Turner

2009 What Happens in London Olivia Bevelstoke and Harry Valentine

2010 Ten Things I love About You Annabel Winslow and Sebastian Grey

Lady Whistledown

2003 The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown Susannah Ballister and David Earl of Renminster Thirty-Six Valentines

2004 Lady Whistledown Strikes Back Everyone The First Kiss

2021 The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton: Lady Whistledowns Official Guide Everyone

Ghraphic Novel

2022 Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron

Not fully Bridgerton but in same Universe

The Smythe-Smith Quartet (Not fully Bridgerton but in same Universe)

2011 Just Like Heaven Honoria Smythe-Smith and Marcus Holroyd

2012 A Night Like This Anne Wynter and Daniel Smyth-Smith

2013 The Sum of All Kisses Sarah Pleinsworth and Hugh Prentice

2015 The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy Iris Smythe-Smith and Richard Kenworthy

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(Not) the same as it was - ch. 4 | A Bridgerton Series

Series: (Not) the same as it was

Pairing: Anthony Bridgerton x OFC

Word Count: 1.4k

Summary: In 1803, Anthony and Jo say a sweet goodbye before they briefly part ways before the beginning of the rest of their lives. In 1814, Anthony and Jo hurl cruel words at one another. Words they won’t be able to take back. 

A/N: I took some time over the holidays to reset my brain and enjoy a little break from writing. Then today I realized this chapter was almost done and I just never finished and posted it? Idk man. Enjoy :)

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Hyde Park, London, 1803

Anthony and Jo were so young. Life feels so deep and real at the age of eighteen. Like adulthood and full maturity has finally reached you and therefore you must get on with the rest of your life. 

But as you get older you realize it’s not like that at all. Life isn’t a series of benchmarks or achievements ordered and timed that one must achieve. Life is a flowing river, its pace may ebb and flow, but it never stops moving, and there are unexpected twists and turns. 

Josephine’s parents had insisted that Jo spend a season out in London properly before any sort of engagement was announced. 

“You’ll appreciate this when you’re older.” Had become the saying that ruled the Saville household for the months between Christmas and the start of the social season.

And Jo didn’t mind, she liked London. 

Anthony was also in London, with his own family, and they danced as frequently as they could get away with and disappeared out into gardens or terraces when their dances were over.

And Jo had, of course, had plenty of callers. At least at the beginning of the season. As time went on it was clear that Miss Saville only had eyes for the Bridgerton heir. 

Everything was perfect. 

Jo could see the image of her future so clearly. She and Anthony would get married, take up one of the houses near their parents, and raise children together. They‘d travel to London on occasion, for Anthony's sister’s seasons, and then their own children’s. Their families would be close by (but not too close) and everything would be as it ought to be.

It felt like her whole life was falling into place. 

A life with Anthony. 

“Mother wants to have the baby in Kent, so we’re returning home next week,” Anthony murmured as he promenaded Jo along the edge of the duck pond. 

Hyde Park was always busy around midday. With events, dinners, and balls usually in the evenings, the days of the aristocracy consisted of social calls and promenades, so Hyde Park was always teeming with people attempting to break up their days with some gentle exercise.

But Anthony and Jo had found a quiet corner of the park that was more densely populated with trees, with more foliage it was hard to be seen, so most of society avoided that corner of the park, but the Bridgerton-Saville party tended to wander that area almost exclusively.

“Oh,” Jo replies quietly. 

She’s not surprised. Anthony had told her weeks ago, before they’d even made the journey to London, that he would have to cut his time short, with his mother heavily pregnant with her eighth child she would want to return home to Kent and give birth in the familiar location, not in London.

Jo had tried to convince her own parents to cut their season short as well and return to Kent with the Bridgertons, but Jo’s mother had been firm in her desire to see her daughter experience a full season as a debutante. And so the Savilles would stay. 

And Jo knows everything will be fine, little will change for her and Anthony in the span of a month or two, but she knows she’ll miss him, more than anything, and that the luster of the season will quickly dissipate without him to share in it with her.

“I’ll be back in a few weeks,” He’s quick to reassure her. “Father has agreed to let me and Ben stay with Aunt Georgie and Uncle Nicholas when they come to London in May.”

Jo grins. Anthony’s Aunt Georgiana is possibly Jo’s favorite Bridgerton, and she’s technically a Rokesby. 

And he glanced behind you to see his mother and Jo’s own distracted by some other mama they knew and swooped down to press a chaste kiss to her lips. 

“I love you,” Anthony murmurs against her lips before pulling away from her.

“I love you too,” Jo replies with a wide smile.

“I shouldn’t say anything, I hate to ruin the surprise, but I don’t think it’s very much of a secret,” He tells you. “I thought you ought to know that I’ll be bringing a ring back with me.”

“Yes?” Jo asks, trying to school her expression into something calm, though an excited smile slips out before she can help herself.

“I think I’ll have a very important question to ask you when I return,” Anthony teases as he squeezes Jo’s left hand.

“Well then, I should probably start considering my answer,” Jo replies sarcastically as she giggles at his unamused expression.

“I won’t dance with anyone else until you come back,” Jo promises solemnly.

“You can dance with whomever you like,” Anthony replies. “Just don’t fall in love with anyone else.”

“I promise,” Jo vowed solemnly as she held tight to Anthony’s hand.

And as infuriating as it was. She hadn’t. 

When Josephine met the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the man who would eventually become her husband, it was clear from the beginning that neither one was inclined to fall in love. 

It wasn’t until things with Anthony truly ended that Josephine paid any consideration to the Earl’s suit.

The widowed Earl, Lord Charles Wescott, needed someone to run his household and perhaps pop out a spare heir or two. He already had an adult son from his first marriage, a boy about the same age as Jo. His beloved wife had died some years earlier and though his grief had not fully resolved itself, he was expected to uphold a certain standard of life, a standard he was unable to maintain on his own. 

The sympathy of his friends had begun to wane in recent months. They’d lightly offered the suggestion that he should remarry. 

That he ought to find an agreeable, pretty young girl from this year’s stock of debutantes and make her his new wife. Someone to care for him as he aged and run his household for him. 

He’d refused at first. The mere consideration felt like an affront to Lydia’s memory. But as the months continued to drag on Charles found himself longing for a sense of companionship. It would not be the same, but it would give him someone to share his life with. 

Josephine needed to marry. She was the only child of her parents but she was still a woman and could not inherit the lands. Her family was comfortable, but she was far from being an heiress and could not live on her annual income alone for the rest of her life.

And though he was twice her age, the Earl was kind to her. He treated her with respect and seemed to actually care to know what she thought. 

He made no pretense that he was in love with her. His affections were platonic. But he promised to care for her. 

And at the time it had seemed to be the best deal she’d been offered.

Josephine had, perhaps naively, hoped that she could learn to love one another. But that seemed to be wishful thinking to cover the ache in her heart after she and Anthony had fallen apart.

There may not have been love, but Jo had been content with her life in Scotland. Contrary to popular belief she had enjoyed the quietness of her new life, she found herself envying the Scottish spitfire and found that in the bone-chilling cold weather, she endured for half the year she felt less desire to go out or really do anything besides sit by the fire and read. 

Josephine hosted parties. As the Earl, her husband had certain duties, and while her husband was rarely in attendance for very long, Jo made friends among her fellow northern lords and ladies. 

She found she had very little to complain about. Her husband provided her with a good life, it was more than many women in her situation received. She was lucky. 

In her marriage she found a relationship born out of respect, she had found a companion who cared for her, was never cruel, always gentle and kind.

But when Charles died it was like the fog lifted. She had lived ten years of her life with him (with being a generous term) and she had nothing to show for it. No children. No home. No accomplishments. Some grief, but just that for the loss of her friend.

The man she had shared a bed with for ten years had still, in many ways, been a stranger to her when he passed.

Bridgerton House, London, 1814

Jo tried to wipe the thoughts of what might have been from her mind as she entered the Bridgerton’s home on this warm spring afternoon.

“Oh!” Jo exclaimed in surprise as she entered the drawing room expecting Violet and Daphne only to find Anthony sitting at the table. 

“Jo,” Anthony says as he looks up from the paper in his hands.

“Anthony….I um, your mother and sister… well,” Jo stammers as she glances around a bit helplessly.

She hadn’t been alone with him, properly alone since they’d reacquainted themselves at the beginning of this season. The last time they’d been alone had been when everything had fallen apart. And the sting of that memory could be felt in Jo’s eyes as well as her heart as she stood helplessly in the Bridgerton’s drawing room. 

“Mother has gotten far more conniving in the last few years,” Anthony replies with a sigh. “She plots now,” He adds as if it explains something.

“Oh?” Jo asks.

“Yes, I imagine this is one of her matchmaking plans,” Anthony says.

“I see, you think your mother wants us to reconcile our childhood affections,” 

“Childhood affections? Is that what we’re calling it?”

Every fortune hunter was eager to tip his cap to the beautiful widow, but she certainly did not need to marry if she did not want to. Anthony knew that. That even though he felt the same pull to Jo that he had felt before, she did not need to marry him and she clearly did not want to.

Whatever it was that they’d once had was long gone. Lost to the same place that had stolen his childish naïveté. 

“Yes, I do not know who you are anymore,” Jo replied. “Viscount Anthony Bridgerton has always been a stranger to me.”

“I could say the same for you,” Anthony replied“You have changed insurmountably since our youth.” 

“And not for the better.”

“Our circumstances had their effects on us both, I certainly shall not deny it. But I did what I had to. I will not apologize for that. What excuse can you offer?”

“My father died,” “I became the Viscount to an estate at eighteen years old. I became responsible for my mother and siblings while I was still a child myself.” 

“Yes, yes, trust me, I am well aware of the grief that still holds you,” “But you cannot use it as a crutch to avoid your emotions, not forever.”

“Do you want me to wallow? To flounder and break? How would that benefit you? I am seriously asking. Because you seem to see what I have become as vindication of your choices. So I hope you’re pleased with them. Because I can assure you I am not,” Jo replied sharply, her voice cracking with emotion as she said that last sentence.

She straightened slightly as she tried to regain her countenance. 

“Tell your mother and sister that I felt unwell and returned home to rest. We will have to go another day.”

“Has Josephine not arrived yet?” Violet asks as she whisks into the drawing room a few minutes later. Pulling her gloves on as she looks around expectantly.

“Your plan did not succeed as you had hoped,” Anthony replies without fully looking up from the paper in his hands. Though he hadn’t read a single word of it in the last few minutes since he’d picked it up again. Josephine’s words still rang in his ears.

“What plan?” Violet asks.

“You might as well have locked me and Jo in a closet together, you’re really not as subtle as I thought you were,” Anthony replied.

“Not everything is a plot against you, Anthony,” Violet replies with a sigh. “I was supposed to promenade with Josephine and your sister Daphne, but we got held up with the planning for the ball, I did not realize you’d be in here.”

“Oh,” Anthony replied a bit dumbly.

Violet Bridgerton sighed.

“What happened?” 

“I didn’t say anything hurtful to her,” Anthony replied. But he was so obviously defensive that it wasn’t hard for Violet to pick up on the fact that he had upset her. And that he knew it.

“No, we can get to what happened this afternoon later, what happened between the two of you?” Violet replies. 

“What do you mean? She married someone else,” Anthony says. 

Violet shoots her eldest son a look he’d gotten well acquainted with in the last ten years. 

“I’ve known Josephine my entire life, she has never been cruel, and she was in love with you, so why would she marry someone else?” She asks him.

“Because I told her to! Is that what you want me to admit, mother? I knew I could never make her happy, and so I let her go,” Anthony spat at his mother. His anger was not directed at her but at himself. At the world. At the unfairness of life and the unpredictability of it all. Of life and death. And how a healthy man who loved his family could be alive and well one day and gone the next.  

“I gave her a chance at happiness because I loved her, and I knew being married to me would only give her the opposite.”

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Rokesby Series Fancast:

George Rokesby - Harris Dickinson

Edward Rokesby - Will Poulter

Andrew Rokesby - Patrick Gibson

Nicholas Rokesby - George MacKay

Billie Bridgerton - Rose Williams

Cecilia Harcourt - Jessie Mei Li

Poppy Bridgerton - Georgie Henley

Georgiana Bridgerton - Mia Bruce

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She beamed, and for a moment Nicholas stopped breathing. It was the dead of night, pitch black save for the lantern and the moon.

And her smile.

When Georgiana Bridgerton smiled like that, he wanted to reach into the sky and grab down the sun, just to hand it to her on a platter.

-Nicholas Rokesby

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In Starstruck, what's the worst political scandal PM Edmund had to deal with? Or rather, was it caused by his party or by one of his children?

Follow-up question, how does the newlywed deal with the media? I'm guessing Benedict got a bit annoyed that people went digging to find out everything they could about Sophie

Sooo first things first…

Political Scandal… wasn’t really a political one but it caused a lot of ruffled feathers and laughs in the Bridgerton family…

There was some media surrounding Violet’s fourth pregnancy, with someone trying to say that the second set of twins is highly rare in a family given that neither family has a history of twins… Colin and Daphne were understandable as they’re fraternal twins but when they announced it was two girls; one paper… said they were as a result of an affair that Violet had with an unknown male…

It turns out said unknown male was Nicholas Rokesby… back from his recent stint with his Wife Georgiana, where they had been working for Doctors without Borders. As Georgiana has red hair the idiots at the paper didn’t realise it was Edmund’d sister…

The paper ended up having to write a very long and formal apology to BOTH families… and were sued for a lot of money which Edmund and Violet donated to the Children’s ward at the local hospital.

As for Benophie as newlyweds…

Benedict ends up having to release a statement saying he was happy to answer questions when formally interviewed but otherwise his family is out of bounds.

If anyone is caught stalking Sophie or writing about Sophie without it being ran past Charles, he would file injunctions (thanks to his sister in law being a Lawyer) and he would sue them…

For the most part, after the first injunction is filed… and both Araminta and the paper are sued for Slander the press then listen and leave Sophie alone…

Until he tells the world Sophie’s pregnant…

They do try and leave her alone but as Benedict hasn’t told anyone when her due date was… as they wanted to keep it a secret, a paper, hired by Araminta, who is determined to get even after being sued, chases Sophie’s car… as she and Charles are heading to Somerset to see Ben on set

Charles is with her but there is an accident… which caused Sophie’s waters to break…

Leading to Charles delivering Baby Charlie on the side of the road.

The press then has a full scale restraining order placed on them…

The only time they ever get anything from Benedict and his wife is when HE chooses to share.

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An Unknown Future

by historylaura

Two years after Benedict Bridgerton fell ill, he is now fully recovered but something still lingers. The dream he had of a woman in silver, also lingering is the sketch he did of a nurse sleeping. All he guessed was that her name was Sophie.

For Sophie Beckett, her job is her life and vocation. It is what she had wanted to do for her entire life, it consumed her, but there was something missing. Something suppressed for two years. Sophie has to make a decision, head or heart.

Words: 5112, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Nicholas Rokesby, Georgiana Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Sophie Beckett, Benedict Bridgerton

Relationships: Georgiana Bridgerton/Nicholas Rokesby, Sophie Beckett/Benedict Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma

Additional Tags: reunited, Medical, Hospital Ball

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/47876737

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some Nicholas and Georgie lockscreens for you.

Like if you save or use.

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Nicholas Rokesby is an unparalleled, courageous, and intellectual feminist.

He's also ✨hot as fuck.✨

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an excellent father outtakes 2/? - niblings

From Part 2 of I’m with you even if it makes me blue.

This was cut from somewhere in the middle of the final scene.

It’s nearly all narration and I loved it because I’d gotten to put to “paper” more of what I envisioned of Nicholas and Georgie’s relationships with their nieces and nephews – in particular, Nicholas with George and Billie’s (OC) daughter. I hated to dispose of it completely, but it felt out of place in the main story. Starts off with part of the scene in the main text for context and just a bit after where it would’ve been.

Posted in honor of Rhia’s birthday!

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they are nicholas rokesby and georgiana "georgie" bridgerton. i'm not sorry.

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We'll Meet Again Chapter 11 the Dinner is up. Ready to meet some of the Aunts and Uncles who are also favourites of mine.

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Baby Kiss It Better

Four kisses between Nicholas and Georgie, and one that isn’t. Part of the Invisible String universe

Happy birthday to the best woman I know, @ourlilinfinity ♥️