This is a combination of two of my previous plot-bunies. One of them was only published on discord.
Edmund always said that Penelope would one day become a Bridgerton. Anthony usually rolled his eyes at these words. Penelope had a special place in the man's heart. One day Eloise came to him crying because she found out that her best friend never got a present for her birthday. Unfortunately, he couldn't tell Portia how she should raise her daughter. So he did what he does on each of his children's birthdays. He gave Penelope a present carved by his own hands.
A few months later, when Penelope was staying at Bridgerton House, she sneaked into Hyacinth's bedroom (on her birthday). She couldn't stand that any of Edmund Bridgerton's children would never get a present carved by his hands. She sat down by the youngest Bridgerton's crib and after sharing her story, she put the toy in the girl's crib.
That day Anthony Bridgerton decided to check his youngest sister and overheard Penelope's private confession.
He suddenly remembered how his father always said that Penelope would one day become a Bridgerton. And for the first, but not the last time, he thought that he wouldn't mind it.
It is not surprising that he was absolutely furious when his brother announced his unexpected engagement to Marina Tomphson. At first, somewhat resigned, he accepted that if not Colin, then he would have to make Penelope an official Bridgerton. And then he found out about LW and discovered that marrying Penelope seemed like a tempting vision. However, he must first take his younger brother's place in her heart.
“It’s almost like you’re twin flames, dancing parallel but synchronized, like you have been dancing like this alone for a long time, and now you have found your partner.”
OR
After their night together, Kate and Anthony are partaking in their first honeymoon activity, forced to reckon with the push and pull of flamenco.
A Candle Snuffed by LiveOncePure
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: Upon return from Aubrey Hall, Kate is absent from events surrounding the wedding. The lack of her presence forces Anthony to a harsh realization.
A Slip of The Tongue by Kanthony_lilies (Marisol31180)
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: In which Kate may or may not have an inappropriate dream about Anthony, and he, of course, finds out.
at first i thought you were a constellation by collectionoftulips
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: Kate is Anthony’s mistress, but things get complicated as Edwina and Mary arrive in London for the marriage mart season and Kate has to try to keep her secrets from completely unravelling the fragile life she had built for herself in London
Burning at Both Ends by pacific1989
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: A slightly drunken chance encounter in a crowded NY nightclub between Kate & Anthony becomes much more than either of them bargained for.
dowry by afreenafreen
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: What if, after Anthony proposes to Edwina, he immediately has a meeting to hash out the marital settlement with Kate? What if he rejects Edwina’s non-existent dowry? What will Kate do then?
fate will twist the both of you by tinyballoflight
Rating: T
Status: WIP
Summary: The courtship between Miss Edwina Sharma and the Viscount Bridgerton gets delayed when a rather persistent cold befalls the lady in question as soon as she sets foot in his ancestral home.
Flint and Steel by collectionoftulips
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: Anthony decides that his friend Kate deserves a nice birthday for an array of reasons he can’t quite identify, hoping to impress her with her cooking skills.
Green in its many hues by BurnerrAccount
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: One week into their agreement, Kate and Anthony find new meaning in the definition of restraint. (Or, a post-canon fic on secret engagements, jealousy, and taking steps forward)
headstruck, heartstruck by ninzied
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: these hunts at aubrey hall never do seem to go quite as planned.
Heirlooms by WaterlilyRose
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: Kate gets the Bridgerton family ring stuck on her finger.
hunt you, unmake you by SarahRoseSerena
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: “I would hunt you. I would unmake you. So that you would know what true value is. You would be glad to be possessed by a woman like me. And proud to possess me in return.” Anthony has never been so utterly destroyed by a mere idea.
Kate’s Crush by Kendal_Lynne
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: At first, he thinks he’s just being paranoid. It’s easy to dismiss a one-time occurrence. Witnessing something happen on two occasions is slightly harder ignore. But when it happens three times…that’s when you know you have a problem. And Anthony Bridgerton certainly has a problem: his wife has a crush on another man.
Know Your Worth by WaterlilyRose
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: Kate decides she needs to forget about Anthony Bridgerton. It hasn’t happened. It will never happen. And Kate needs to stop dreaming it will happen because she can never let it happen anyway. Pity that Anthony is not good at taking hints…
Love and Scandal by LoveIsStrong
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: What happens when Anthony does not listen to Kate (canon divergence beginning at the end of Episode 5 Unthinkable Fate)
Rocks and Mountains by HarmonizingSunsets
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: 5 things Kate finds attractive about Anthony before they are engaged and 1 thing she falls for after.
Save The Last Dance For Me by collectionoftulips
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: the one where Anthony assumes that his parents plan on marrying Kate off to Benedict
Start anew by utterlycliche
Rating: NR
Status: Complete
Summary: The courtship ends at Aubrey Hall, but Anthony and Kate continue their morning rides.
Surrender to the Sound by becangle
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: After Edwina and Anthony are engaged, Kate reconsiders her choices and seeks out her own happiness.
The Alpha Who Loved Me by RoxieRox29
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: Because a Venn diagram of Bridgerton S2 and Regency Era A/B/O is actually a circle. With the edition of some rare omegaverse dynamics, ABO becomes a perfect lens for retelling Kanthony’s love story.
The Queen of the Night by honsandrebels
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: “I too enjoy the opera. My sister Kate is the one who introduced me to it.” A love story in three parts, from Kate’s point of view. In which Kate’s inner life and her relationship with Anthony is explored as they attend performances of three very different operas.
Uncertain Smile by INTPSlytherin_reylove97
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: Anthony liked to believe he was a man of his word. So when he is strong-armed into becoming a summer camp counselor, he has no choice but to follow through. He just did not expect to fall for his co-counselor, Kate.
Would it truly be, so unthinkable a fate? by LoveIsStrong
Rating: G
Status: Complete
Summary: What if Kate fell into the lake with Anthony (and Thomas)? Would Anthony have a similar reaction to the bee-sting, only now it would play out in front of the entire ton?
What if Anthony heard Edwina’s half-sister remark? Would he come to Kate’s defense just like he did at the Sheffield dinner?
Would these twists of fate make them reconsider what they deemed unthinkable?
Lost, Drifting - Chapter 4 - You can't predict the end
"That was all to say he had all but forgotten about Doctor Dorset's visit, much too busy with other important things, until he walked into the Sharma's drawing room halfway through the morning the day before the festival to find the man seated in one of the sofas, happily sipping on his tea and making not very subtle eyes at Kate.
Anthony hated him."
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A certain doctor comes to town, stirring in Anthony a myriad of feelings, none of them good, and forcing him to consider his future and Kate's.
HELLO Y'ALL! DID YOU MISS ME?! (Is anyone even still reading this?)
I was feeling sad and pouty and dramatic last night and kinda fueled those feelings into working on Lost, Drifting.
I'll confess, this part of the chapter was already written, but as I went the chap kinda got way too big (over 12K I need to be stopped) and I decided this needed to go apart.
The good news is that the second part of this (and this kiss I promised) is coming on Friday, so keep an eye out for it!
I hope you like this chapter (I don't love it but I'm very mean to myself) and please understand Anthony's having a difficult moment? Is he being dumb? Yes, but cut the man some slack, it's probs not easy for him rn.
Apparently I’m writing drabbles to songs these days. One of my go to Kanthony writing songs, Woman by Harry Styles, inspired a bit of weekend jealous Anthony.
Don’t really know what this is but maybe you’ll enjoy it.
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Low key don’t want Anthony to know about Edwina saying her suitors have to get her sisters blessing so we see jealous Anthony getting upset about all these men around Kate. Like the shot we saw in the teaser
Anthony: I’m not staring, I was simply glancing. Jealous? I’m not jealous, I don’t know why she has to talk to all of these suitors. Shut up Benedict
Kate in the distance: who does he think he is?He has the audacity to glance at me? Oh I’m sorry your name was again?
It’s below the cut as it’s more Drabble than headcanons 😂 I couldn’t help myself…
Anthony had been lusting after his colleague in the last few weeks, it was maddening, it was infuriating, and it was downright galling.
The woman challenged him over everything, she had stormed into the office on her second day at Bridgerton and Rokesby Family Law having been hired by his cousin Henry to work alongside them both as he had decided it was time to add some women to the company again, they had argued over taking a pro bono case for a young woman who had been done out of her inheritance and cheated out of her home.
Anthony had seen the application and seen the opposing legal counsel and said it was career suicide…
She had stepped on his foot and said she was doing it anyway.
And irritatingly she had won. It had been a slam dunk and he had sat in the courtroom and watched Kate Sharma walk up and down like she owned the place and by the time she presented her closing arguments… the only thought on Anthony’s mind was “well fuck” and he desperately wanted her to stand on him again.
And that was nearly 18 months ago…
Honestly, it was becoming ridiculous whenever he heard her using the commanding voice, he was stuck behind a desk with a raging hard on for at least an hour and usually her ire was pointed at him but that afternoon it had been at someone else.
“No Edi. I am not covering for you. I don’t care… I am a fucking solicitor not a model… no…” the voice floated through. He could see the look on her face and somehow his brain had gone and formed a visual of Kate in lingerie… and well… he was lost to the rest of the conversation.
He wasn’t even able to formulate more than a grunt when Kate came in 30 minutes later and said she was taking a half day and was telling him why, his brain was gone, and he hadn’t heard a single thing.
Anthony had no idea what he was about to walk into 4 hours later when he went to meet his brother for a pint after work. He needed something stronger than a pint of larger but if he ordered Whiskey then Benedict would have known instantly something was up and picked and needled at him until he caved and told his brother everything and he wasn’t in the mood for that tonight.
It was a Friday night, he wanted to go out, get drunk and maybe find himself a woman to bury himself into to make him forget about the dreams he was having of her…
But when he opened the door to his brother’s photo studio, and he saw her covered in a red silk dress with a slit up the side that showed long long legs that dear god he wanted wrapped around his head…
Honestly he was sure he was about to have an aneurism…
He just stared at the scene in front of him with an open mouth, honestly, it wouldn’t be a surprise if drool was coming out…
“Fucking hell” was what did come out of his mouth and the two other occupants in the room who had previously not noticed his arrival whipped his head around.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” Kate had bellowed “are you stalking…” then she saw the resemblance and looked at Benedict with furious eyes “wait are you two related?”
“Well… yeah? I thought Edi would have told you” Benedict said as it was the most obvious thing in the world
He didn’t take photos under his family name, he didn’t want people to use that as the reason to hire him, so he had used his mother’s maiden name and was known, in the photography world as “Benedict Ledger” Kate just blinked.
“So, this is what you took the afternoon off for? To come take your clothes off for my brother?” Anthony managed to snap back, something throbbing in his temple, anger, and something hot and possessive in his throat.
“Do I look like I’ve got no fucking clothes on?” Kate snapped back.
Good god… Anthony felt his entire body heat up, not now, please god not now he tried to tell himself, now is not the time to imagine her in nothing but red underwear… he did not need the stiffy to make this all the more awkward.
“You might as well not…” He said, wishing the words never left his mouth.
“Ant…” Benedict said, trying to diffuse the situation “she’s just helping me out with the shoot for Penwood… Edi was sick today and the photos had to be in before the end of the week..”
“No, they don’t you just want to impress Sophie…” Anthony snapped. The fury in his brother’s eyes he knew he had gone too far but the jealous monster in him was raging that his brother got to take photos of Kate like this.
Wait… jealous?
Dear god…
He shook his head missing his brother calling him a dick as Kate chuckled “I don’t pay you to come do this! You’re a fucking solicitor”
Kate rolled her eyes “it’s fucking day off, so you aren’t paying… I don’t judge you when you take half days or come slouching into the office two hours late, looking like you’ve rolled out of someone’s bed”
“Jealous?” he smirked, unable to help himself and he delighted in the little blush that crept over her cheeks.
“Oh, you wish” Kate said, snatching up her bag from the floor. “I’m getting changed and going to meet Sophie. Ben you’re welcome to come join us… You… not so much” she snarled at Anthony.
Anthony glared but Kate stalked off.
“You know you could just get your head out of your arse and ask her out like a normal human being” Benedict said shaking his head as he put the camera away
“What… no… fuck no…” Anthony stammered, “besides… pot… kettle” the thought of a date with Kate… he shook his head.
Benedict glared “that’s different!”
“How? You’ve been pining over her for 12 months… since she took over her father’s business. Just ask her” Anthony said.
“I work with her company but tell you want… I will if you do” Benedict said, the edge of competition in his voice.
Anthony glared “you know for a fine fact I’d rather…”
“Rather what…?” Kate said standing at the door, dressing now in her office clothes, her pencil skirt and blouse hugging her figure and her stockings back on. Honestly Anthony wasn’t sure what was sexier.
“Erm… erm…” he stammered lost for words.
“You coming?” she said to Benedict “I know Soph will want to see you”
“I’m supposed to go for a pint with this arsehole” he said gesturing to his brother.
Kate sighed “fine. You can come but honestly… if he so much as breathes on me…”
So, 40 minutes later the three of them were in the pub with Sophie who had been waiting for them and Anthony never felt more out of place in his life, or uncomfortable.
They had laughed and joked, and it felt almost… normal… Anthony had told Kate and Sophie about the time he held Benedict upside down by his ankle and honestly, her laugh… dear god it should be Illegal the way she laughed
She had taken herself off to make a phone call , Benedict and Sophie were practically pressed up against one another in the booth and Anthony let his eyes roam around the bar. It could have been a double date.
He was starting to wish it was…
He glanced at his brother and decided at the glare he received , that he needed to get up, he needed to give his brother a bit of privacy to at least grow a pair of balls and actually ask the petite blonde out and he couldn’t well do that with him sat there.
So, getting up he decided to go get some air, Kate had gone out to make a phone call and he thought maybe he could keep her company. He just wanted to talk, maybe apologise for being an arse earlier and ask if he could buy her a drink… or dinner…
But when he got outside he saw something that set that jealous monster off inside of him again, his blood raced, and his body seemed to tingle and reverberate with something…
This little beast inside of him screaming she’s mine… he wanted her to be his so badly… and he was just realising that tonight
A man stood so close to Kate it was indecent, his hand on her lower back and his lips so close to her ear and he saw her straighten, her spine stiffen in the way that she usually reserved for him when he walked into a room. “No” he heard her say, that commanding voice “I told you I am not interested” and the man tugged at her a little and Anthony could see the come on, it’ll be fun on his lips. He hadn’t heard it with the blood rushing in his ears and he did the first thing he thought of…
“Babe! There you are” he called out, and Kate hearing the familiar voice whipped her head around and gave him a smile that Anthony was sure could have lit half of London…
Kate shoved the man out of the way, her eyes glittering with thanks as she moved over to him and she pressed a kiss on his cheek and Anthony felt it right down to his soul as he put an arm around her protectively. “Is this man bothering you?”
“You… you didn’t say you had a boyfriend” the man said, taking in Anthony’s tall frame, Anthony wasn’t ashamed to say he had bristled a bit like a peacock as he stood there, protective and a little jealous.
“You didn’t give me a chance” Kate said stubbornly
“Clear off mate before I break your nose” Anthony said. The man blanched and ran for it before Kate seemed to sag into him.
“Are you alright?” he asked her, genuine concern in his voice
“Yes I am fine” she said, looking at him with bright eyes “you didn’t have to do that though” she said letting go of him, taking the look of fire in his eyes to mean something else.
“I did, he was harassing you” he said “I’ve got far too many sisters to not do something”
“But you didn’t have to pretend to be my boyfriend” she said, her voice quiet.
“Oh… right… probably not but…” he said trailing off.
“We best get back; Ben and Sophie are probably wondering if we’ve killed each other” Kate said.
Anthony muttered “I wanted to…” but Kate didn’t hear it but as they re-entered the pub and saw the table they had one occupied was gone, and Ben and Sophie were nowhere to be seen Kate let out a “Oh… they’ve… gone”
Anthony frowned but the monster in his chest was growling with some triumphant “I think Ben finally got his head out of his arse”
“Good for them I guess. But if they’re gone… I should… we should…” Kate said awkwardly.
“Right…” he said as Kate turned to leave
“It’s… I’ll see you Monday” she said to him as she turned to leave.
“Kate wait!” he said, coming to a decision, the monster in his chest yelling at him not to let her go just yet.
“What?” she said, looking at him. Something had shifted between them tonight, something was different. He was different. He needed to seize this moment.
“Let me buy you a burger or something? Before you go… as… as I guess an apology for being an arsehole earlier” he said,
Kate looked at him for a moment “I think you might have done that before when you helped me out… but…” she said tilting her head in the way he noticed she did when she was thinking “a burger does sound good. I’m starving”
Anthony grinned.
And two hours later, when he was giving her a very tentative and gentle kiss on her lips, asking if he could take her out properly the following night… he had never been more thankful for his jealousy in his life…
