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Murderbot Diaries Drabble December by lovinglylightbulbs
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Dec 2025
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“What are we looking at, time-wise?” I ask.
Three hours until full collapse, maybe two and a half before irreversible abstraction, and— For a moment, it pauses, but not as if it's nervous. It pauses in a way that punctuates its next statement. Two before you need to terminate my kernel.
Lightning shoots up my spine. “I'm not doing that.”
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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At the start of their survey, PreservationAux watches as their SecUnit is unpacked from its crate. Immediately, the team decides that it is Friend Shaped, and they're going to show it the Respect and Kindness it deserves.
(Mild AU of All Systems Red where the gang decides to try and befriend their SecUnit as soon as they land, before any lives are in danger. Whether it likes it or not. Got Loved Idiot. Primarily Mensah POV)
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It was a beautiful day on the survey planet and Dr. Mensah was a jacked survey team leader and planetary admin.
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The most important relationships in ART's life are with the humans who raised it, and for whom it is now both home and friend. But ART lives almost entirely in the feed, where it is imperceptible to the humans unless it makes an active effort to be perceived. Struggling to be seen and understood, and to understand the humans who are its whole world, it turns to the thing it knows best: research.