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a while back I was talking with @nishavanna about what we hoped to see from polin on the show before we get to their season. I’m in no way a writer but that’s what we have come up with 

They always share a dance on the first episode of each season, no matter the context, not only that but Colin always bring some kind of gift to Penelope when he returns from his travel. So we have a scene of him bringing her the tomatoes they talked about during season 1 and we have a scene on the first episode of season 3 of Colin gifting Pen with something from wherever place he decides to go next, it become their thing, during season 3 (because, if I’m not mistaken there’s a time jump of 2 years from the prologue to the first chapter) we see a shot of Pen’s room with all the little gifts Colin gave her. it’s very cute.  

On the last episode of each season they share a special scene; so for season one we got Colin saying that he was going to travel and that Pen had inspired him to do it, we also get Pen refusing his dance. On season 2 they’re once again talking about Colin’s travels and which place he will visit next, it’s very bittersweet because there he is again leaving and not realizing that Pen is right there, however, this time, when Colin asks her to dance she accepts. And then… season 3 happens. 

So it’s Benedict’s season and we get the whole cinderella plot going on… but we also get on episode 6 the scene™. It goes very much like in the books, Violet keeps dropping hints about Penelope and how Colin should marry her and, frankly, at that time Colin was still a bit dumb and oblivious, so we get him complaining of his mother’s ideas to his brothers and “and I am certainly not going to marry Penelope Featherington.” “oh”. It’s very painful to watch and we get some angsty shots of both Pen (bc homegirl loves him) and Colin (bc boy does he realizes that he hurt her badly) so for the next episode or so he keeps trying to apologize to her but she keeps evading him because she’s not in the mood to see his face. 

So we’re on the last episode of the season and we get a very clear parallel to their last scene on season 1, but this time, Colin is the one who is trying to get something off his chest and apologize to Penelope and instead of being able to do so, she cuts him off, says that she’s not feeling well or anything and that she should leave.  This time, when the camera pans to Colin’s face we see a moment of realization. That he just lost someone that was very dear to him and he doesn’t know what to do with a life without Penelope… setting up all the yearning and the beginning of the end to the slow burn and the stolen glances. In conclusion: he doesn’t know that he loves her or even that he likes likes her but he definitely realizes that he’s feelings for Pen are not only the friends type. 

Colin surprised himself by holding out his hand and saying, “Penelope Featherington, I think you should dance with me.”

And then Penelope surprised him by laughing and saying, “That’s very sweet of you to ask, but you don’t have to dance with me any longer.”

His pride felt oddly pricked. “What the devil do you mean by that?”

She shrugged. “It’s official now. I’m a spinster. There’s no longer a reason to dance with me just so that I don’t feel left out.”

“That’s not why I danced with you,” he protested, but he knew that it was exactly the reason. And half the time he’d only remembered to ask because his mother had poked him—hard— in the back and reminded him.

She gave him a faintly pitying look, which galled him, because he’d never thought to be pitied by Penelope Featherington

 "If you think,“ he said, feeling his spine grow stiff, "that I’m going to allow you to wiggle out of a dance with me now, you’re quite delusional.”

“You don’t have to dance with me just to prove you don’t mind doing it,” she said.

 "I want to dance with you,“ he fairly growled.

"Very well,” she said, after what seemed to be a ridiculously long pause. “It would surely be churlish for me to refuse.”

“I don’t know. I don’t know when, I don’t know how, and to be honest, I don’t care. But I know this much is true: I love you, and I hate myself for not seeing the real you all these years.”

“Colin, don’t,” she pleaded. “No recriminations. No regrets. Not tonight.”

But he just smiled, placing a single finger on her lips to silence her plea. “I don’t think you changed,” he said. “At least not very much. But then one day I realised I was seeing something different when I looked at you.” He shrugged. “Maybe I changed. Maybe I grew up.”

She placed her finger on his lips, quieting him in the same manner he’d done to her. “Maybe I grew up, too.”

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Penelope was such a funny character. No, that wasn’t quite right. She was…surprising. Yes, that seemed to sum her up. Very few people really knew her; she had certainly never developed a reputation as a sterling conversationalist. He was fairly certain she’d made it through three-hour parties without ever venturing beyond words of a single syllable.

Penelope Featherington at the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens