#married!polin amnesia AU

[your3fundamentaltruths]

For Polin Week, do you think you would add to your fic about Penelope having amnesia because I think about that one at least once a month. You’re a great writer and I love all of your fics. Thank you so much for sharing them.

Thank you SO much for the kind words, Nonny!

While it is WAY past Polin Week at this point (sorry!), I do plan to get back to it someday.

THAT SAID, I have another married!Polin amnesia AU in the works, based off the premise that Penelope has amnesia and the last thing she remembers is the night of the Featherington ball. It's currently called come morning light, but the original working title was words I don't believe and I'm torn between the two.

[thekatebridgerton]

So I just read ur Polin Amnesia & Time Travel AUs and now I need to know what happens! I will literally die 🙈

Do Pen and Colin find each other in the future?

And does Penelope agree to marry Colin despite his supposed "Amnesia"?

I NEED ANSWERS! 🙈💀

Last one of the au related replies. This one was part of my catching up to Polin week efforts lol. Found here: Amnesia au And Time Travel au

For the time travel au, here's some clarification for those who didn't catch the little reference in the first paragraph. About Modern Eloise, she asked Penelope to transcribe Regency Colin's journals. Eloise is in charge of Aubrey Hall Because unlike the rest of her family, who travel a lot, Eloise is the only one permanently based in England. Penelope is vaguely aware that Eloise gave up a career in publishing, to study medicine when one of her brothers fell into a coma and she stayed in England to take care of him. Since he's been in a coma for years and unlikely to wake up, modern Colin is a touchy subject for Eloise and as such she never talks about him with Penelope.

When Colin wakes up calling for Penelope, of course Eloise finds it weird, but calls Penelope right away to tell her the news. And it's love at first sight when they meet again. Colin has the memories of modern Colin to help him adapt, but the disappearance of his same named ancestor will forever remain a mystery. Penelope theorizes that all along, he also didn't belong in the regency Era, but rather was pulled there when he fell into a coma. And meeting Penelope was the push he needed to come back to his modern body. Either way, they both have two sets of memories of a love that can trascend time. And they decide to make the best of it together.

For the Amnesia au

Of course Colin keeps up pretending to be amnesiac for as long as he can. Except that after he gets his memories back he just doubles down on the horniness. Because look at her, all soft and witty and HIS. Come clean? Are you kidding me? The moment she figures out he got his memories back she's going to dump him! he can't let that happen. He pushes for the wedding to be moved up and leaves Penelope no choice but to agree. He convinces his mother and the rest of his family, that he's doesn't need to recover his memories to be sure all this time he wanted to marry Penelope (because he's recovered them already) and he goes all out on the marriage proposal. Basically pretend amnesiac Colin does everything he can to make sure Penelope can't back down from marrying him. Because he knows she wants out.

Altough, he thinks she wants out because she doesn't have very deep feelings for him, and wants to keep her secret double life as LW. But truthfully Penelope wants out because she thinks she's taking advantage of his pure, innocent feelings who has been suffering from amnesia.

Is pushing up the wedding underhanded? yes. But Colin knows that leaving Lady Whistledown any wiggle room, would be all she needs to stage a marital prision break. And he likes having Penelope all to himself thank you very much. And even tho, she's dying of guilt inside for basically letting Colin marry someone he doesn't love under false pretenses, because he has amnesia, Penelope does go trough with the wedding, after doing all she can to get out of it.

Colin comes clean after the wedding night...And that's when Penelope gets furious.