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[lastoftruebeliever]

A Lesson in Protective Instincts

Modern Benophie AU | Slow-burn | Teacher/Parent Pickup Tension | Murder Mystery | Domestic Thriller Vibes | Eventual HEA

They would later say it started with a bite.

Not the kind that leaves a mark on skin—though there was that too—but the kind that leaves a mark on memory.

Benedict Bridgerton keeps showing up late to school pickup. Sophie Baek keeps handling it without raising her voice. Cressida Cowper-Cavender keeps raising concerns. And somewhere in the beige meeting rooms and amber-lit studios, something is starting to crack.

Now read it on AO3 → X

[lastoftruebeliever]

Chapter 3 is up!

[boyd-stevens]

BRIDGERTON 3.01 | "Out of the Shadows"

[nessa007]

Bridgerton Season 4 (2026) Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

[nessa007]

Bridgerton Season 4 (2026) Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)

[lastoftruebeliever]

Lock, Stock & a Ton of Trouble

Eloise Bridgerton isn’t a terrorist—she’s just an anarchist with a passion for explosives and a talent for chaos. When a riot in Trafalgar Square sends her and best friend Theo crashing into Philip Crane—a tattooed, premium-cannabis kingpin who’s been dodging Queen Charlotte’s criminal empire for years.

What starts as an accidental drug spill in an alley spirals into an unlikely alliance: Eloise’s evidence against Charlotte, Philip’s grow-op resources, Theo’s hacking skills, and a feral found family that includes sharp-tongued co-parent Marina and chaos-agent twins. Together they plot to take down London’s untouchable crime queen—while dodging Russian mercenaries, rigging THC-sprinkler defenses, and giving in to the kind of heat that fogs up car windows.

[lastoftruebeliever]

A Lesson in Protective Instincts

Modern Benophie AU | Slow-burn | Teacher/Parent Pickup Tension | Murder Mystery | Domestic Thriller Vibes | Eventual HEA

They would later say it started with a bite.

Not the kind that leaves a mark on skin—though there was that too—but the kind that leaves a mark on memory.

Benedict Bridgerton keeps showing up late to school pickup. Sophie Baek keeps handling it without raising her voice. Cressida Cowper-Cavender keeps raising concerns. And somewhere in the beige meeting rooms and amber-lit studios, something is starting to crack.

Now read it on AO3 → X

[stevenrogered]

BRIDGERTON | 4x08 "Dance in the Country"

[lastoftruebeliever]

Mine to Keep-Read on AO3

In 2027 London, Penelope Featherington is Whistledown: the anonymous intel broker who just saved Marina Crane's empire—and painted a target on her own back. Colin Bridgerton is sent to secure her. He arrives with a gun, a plan, and eight years of unresolved obsession from the night she humiliated him in a debate hall. What starts as protection becomes possession. Dark AU.

[lastoftruebeliever]

No Saints in Mayfair: Read on AO3

“The first rule of our family is that we protect our own.”

Georgian elegance hiding bulletproof glass. Old money smiling at galas while burying bodies in the Thames. Kate Sharma moves in next door to the Bridgertons with one goal: destroy the Cowpers who murdered her father.

Anthony Bridgerton offers an alliance she doesn’t want. Violet Bridgerton already knows why she’s really here. Revenge. Power. A fake romance that turns too real. In Mayfair, love and murder wear the same perfume.

[lastoftruebeliever]

So I Agreed to Marry a Mafia Duke: Read on AO3

When Nigel Berbrooke escalates from stalker to would-be kidnapper, powerful 'godmother', Agatha Danbury, maneuvers Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings and secret Don of the Bassano family, into a strategic fake engagement with Daphne Bridgerton: brilliant criminal lawyer, lethal debutante, and Violet's most dangerous daughter. Protection, alliances, and boardroom appeasement—simple. Except nothing stays fake when two predators recognize their match. (Or: the mafia AU where the weird smile becomes foreplay, letter openers become weapons, and "mutually beneficial arrangement" turns into "I would burn empires for you.")

[wlwarhammer]

Bridgerton men get told to shut the fuck up for the first time in their lives and start imagining themselves in a wedding dress

[thedukeofhastingssexyrobe]

SOPHIE BAEK and BENEDICT BRIDGERTON

↳ BRIDGERTON - Season 4 . Episode 3

[lastoftruebeliever]

MURDER SWEETHEARTS: Benophie Mafia AU (Read on Ao3)

"You're a romantic."

"I'm practical. Romanticism is just practical sentiment in better lighting." She laughed, low and dark. "Don't get blood on it. I'm fond of that suit."

"I'm fond of you."

[stevenrogered]

Benedict subconsciously accidentally mixing up his memories of Sophie and the Lady in Silver and neither of them realizing

[tiffycat]

pov your cousin brings her dog to go party with yall

[gabriellevergreen]

[lastoftruebeliever]

@gossipgirl

The Hamptons are glowing. Or maybe it’s just the collective radiation from two of Manhattan’s most dangerous bloodlines fusing over champagne and designer seafood.

Valentina de Fontaine and Alexei Belova, once enemies in heels and Cuban cigars, are engaged.

Which means their children—Saint Robert and Devil Yelena—are now officially family.

Should we send a gift? Or a trauma therapist?

Either way… It’s going to be a hell of a honeymoon.

XOXO,

Gossip Girl

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