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1. Yours By Accident: A Vow in Fog and Fire by AFlowerInTheSun

   Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   03 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Benedict Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington
   • Benedict Bridgerton
   • Penelope Featherington
   • Drunk elopement
   • Regency
   • Season 2 AU
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • No dubious consent
   • They kiss when they're both high and drunk but there's nothing more to it except from the elopment
   • Benedict was already yearning for Penelope
   • Benelope HEA
   • Benedict Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington Happy Ending
   • It's a bit angsty but not too much
   • Accidental Marriage
   • elopement
   • Angst
   • Mutual Pining
   • Unspoken Love
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Burn
   • Reconciliation
   • Drunken Shenanigans
   • vows under the influence
   • Found Family

   Summary

   Penelope wakes in an unfamiliar bed, the taste of last night like smoke on her tongue, and a ring on her finger she does not remember putting there.

   Benedict is already awake. Silent. Wrecked. And he is staring at her like he has broken something he can never fix.

   The chapel vows are real. The marriage is real. The memories are hazy.

   He has loved her for over a year, quietly, stupidly, completely. But it never mattered. Because her heart was never his to claim. And now, by some foolish twist of fate and brandy, she is his wife.

   And she does not remember choosing him.

   Penelope's heart still aches for Colin. Benedict knows this. And still, he cannot bring himself to regret loving her, only the way it happened. The way he might have ruined everything.

   They must decide what comes next: a future neither planned, a love she is not sure she can return, and a marriage forged in candlelight but shadowed by everything unsaid.

   Because vows spoken in the dark still echo in daylight.

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   English

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