#please dont have Benedict punching cops lol

[eleanor-bradstreet]

Charlie, Alexander, William and Violet always heard that their parents got engaged in a jail.

How do you think they would react when they discovered it was their mother who was the inmate, not their father?

Which sibling or in-law split the beans?

Ha! What a fun question Nonny!

I suppose it does make sense that they would assume Benedict had landed himself in the clink for one thing or another. Public intoxication? Bohemian tomfoolery?

The first thing I imagine is a big Bridgerton family dinner when Benophie's children are in their teenage years. Anthony is trying to massage away a migraine while warning Eloise that she cannot go marching through London wearing trousers and demanding women be allowed admission to university, or she's liable to be arrested. Poor Phillip sits between them trying to deescalate. Then Eloise bursts out with: "I don't care if I'm arrested! Sophie was sent to jail and everything worked out alright!"

Cue forks clattering onto plates and the blood draining out of everyone's faces. The Benophie kids all start snickering and demanding to know the story, which Benedict very sweetly adapts for them, telling them how the evil Araminta sent their mother to jail where Sophie never faltered and even fought her way out with fisticuffs while he himself was just a spectator. Ben and Sophie would wear it as a badge of pride, the trials they went through for their love, not as a mark of shame 😌 But yes, then the family would all be instructed to not go around sharing that information with the ton, haha!

Thank you for the ask! 💙