#bridgerton wives black market lost and found

[sea-owl]

Wouldn't it be funny if the Bridgerton wives were bored one day and just decided to band together and create a black market empire? Just imagine all 4 ladies at an afternoon tea party while their husbands are away and in a moment of silence Penelope (she who has done a many illegal activities in her youth) just straight up says "You know what would really be funny..." and the others will agree because 1) they're bored af and 2) they will use and create any opportunity to raise their husband's stress levels.

Then fast forward their husbands come back and have apoleptic levels of stress because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CREATED A BLACK MARKET EMPIRE??? WE WERE GONE FOR A WEEK!

I love this. Lmao, you know what be funnier? If it was the same year Penelope and Lucy were pregnant with Georgie and Hermione too.

Penelope will pleade innocence to her husband later and that the baby gave her those thoughts (they both know she's lying), but she's so bored right now.

She's five months pregnant with her fourth child, and her husband had to go away with his brothers for an emergency at Aubrey Hall. That left her with her sister in-laws, Kate, Sophie, and Lucy.

Lucy was also pregnant with her third child, and she also looked extremely bored. Kate and Sophie also looked bored as their assigned babysitters.

Truly Penelope could not be blamed for what happened next.

"I am bored," Penelope stated.

Kate and Sophie looked over interested. Sophie always smiled when hearing of Penelope's tales of felonies just as Penelope delighted in hearing Sophie's tales of thievery. Kate was an enabler who was not afraid to pitch in, such as when they dumped all that tea in the Thames.

"I am as well," Lucy sighed. "Do you an idea?"

"Well. . ." Penelope trailed off. "The black market always did fascinate me. I used to trade secrets for goods with some of the merchants."

With a little bit of help from Penelope's friend, Ms. Kazan, the girls set up a "Lost and Found" business. Customers in need of their services would go to either Kate or Lucy and report a lost item or knowledge they wished to be found. For a fee, half paid up front and the other half paid after, Sophie or Penelope would go find the lost thing.

Were the methods always legal when they went looking? No, but hey, they wanna do a good job.

It was a very lucrative business, so much so that there were whispers about it when their husbands returned.

Colin immediately knew it was his wife's idea. Anthony, Benedict, and Gregory also knew it was Colin's wife's idea.

Storming into the Bridgerton drawing room, the husband's were greeted by their wives having tea in the exact spot they left them.

"Did you get bored while I was away?" Colin asked Penelope.

"Yes, I did," Penelope answered.

"So you created a black market shop?"

Penelope gestured to all the wives. "We created a black market shop."

"Why," all the brothers sighed.

Kate, Sophie, and Lucy shrugged. "We were bored and it seemed fun."

"And how long were we gone before you did this?"

"Ten minutes."

[sea-owl]

Okay Bridgerton wives and their black market shop is so funny to me especially when I think of the POV of the Bridgerton brothers like they just be doing their business with Colin doing his usual "I miss my wife" spiel when his head just pops up and a shiver runs through his body and he knows, without a shadow of a doubt that Penelope has committed a felony. Again.

He tells his brothers this and they just roll their eyes and tell him not to be dramatic and Colin is insistant because, again, he knows his wife and that the others shouldn't be complacent because their wives are just as bad as his when bored!

And then they return and lo and behold, their wives are running a black market shop! Colin side eyes his brother like "I told you so!"

Colin's brain is used for two things, his wife and food. Unfortunately for Penelope, the side dedicated to her can also sense when she gets up to her illegal activities. She has to hope or plan that the food side of Colin's brain is the dominant side that day.

When Colin senses his wife committed another felony he is ready to turn around that very moment, especially since baby Georgie is still in Mama's belly. But his brothers all told him not to worry. Their wives will make sure Penelope won't do anything.

Colin does not believe any of them. Kate is an enabler and has committed her own felonies in the past. Sophie steals stuff when bored, mostly Benedict's stuff nowadays, but still. Lucy is perfect for them to mold and corrupt into their fourth member. She already married Gregory and idolizes Kate. The girl won't stand a chance against the three of them.

Colin is all out smug but also wants to bang his head against a wall when he and his brothers finally get back. Of all things, he was not expecting a black market shop.

Penelope tells him it was the baby's idea. He does not believe her for a second.

[sea-owl]

But what if the Bridgerton wives actually do create a mafia by accident lmao like maybe through their black market shop they form alliances left and right and helping women and children deal with their husbands /fathers and suddenly they've established themselves in the ton as regency equivalent of mafia dons and they go with it because honestly, they're still bored and who's gonna stop them? Their husbands?? Please.

There's whispers going around London that if a man wants to do legal business with one of the Bridgerton brothers, they must first please the wives.

Many fools thought it was unnecessary and that the brothers are too fond of their women. They are quick to find it's because the wives have accidently made a mafia family, all because they were bored. They are also the scary ones in the marriage. They have more than one brain cell.

The Bridgerton brothers are still protective, but they know they ain't gonna stop their wives. Time to provide some protection another way.

One uninformed lord who did want to do illegal business went to the brothers only to he turned away with a, "Sorry, you'll have to talk to my wife."