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There had been an aching, empty hole in her gut that had been waiting for an urgent call in the middle of the night.
She sat up, immediately, and took a moment to breathe and to take a sip of the water that was sitting at the side of her bed. Preparing herself for the news that she didn't want to hear.
Or, Mensah learns more about Corporation Rim than she wanted to...
Set immediately after Feel the Darkness Coming.
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- Part 2 of The Rope is Long
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Their planetary survey turns deadly when Preservation's team discovers they're being hunted. Stranded with their transport destroyed and their SecUnit critically damaged, they must survive corporate conspiracies and combat units while racing against time. As their protector burns itself out keeping them alive, the crew begins to see it—him—in a new light. But someone wants them dead, and their SecUnit might not survive long enough to find out who.
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A SecUnit's Guide to Academic Conferences by marcicat
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
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One spaceship, two constructs, three humans, and two augmented humans attend an academic conference. What could possibly go wrong?
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Abort, Retry, Fail? by KeenaJ
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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A reimagining of All Systems Red/Season 1, using elements from both.
Sent on what should be a long and tedious, but extremely simple, mission, Gurathin finds himself an unwitting target of The Company's shadow client and is forced to join up with a free-hold survey team way over their heads, and a rogue SecUnit that can't seem to catch a break.
Gurathin is assigned as a systems engineer to DeltFall during the ill fated survey, with orders to collect information for the shadow client, GrayCris, that could lead to the location of alien remnants. After their Security Unit and a researcher are mauled by giant fauna not in the information packet, and experiencing satellite outages, PresAux reaches out to DeltFall for assistance, and Gurathin is sent to assist, although no gift is truly free. Left with PresAux with orders to clone their data for DeltFall, Gurathin narrowly avoids sharing the fate of the rest of the team. Now he's stuck with a group of hippies, a Murderbot, and a fellow DeltFall survivor he's never seen before.
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- Part 1 of The Spymaster Diaries
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the comlink's open but there's no one tuned in on the other side by half_baked_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
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For this to work, my governor module would be partially reactivated and I’d have to act as a governed Unit again for the next two cycles.
Yeah, this was going to suck. Even if I did get to keep my access to the feed and my media archives.
Written for 100 Prompts Challenge: Dull (56); Gamble (82).
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- Part 3 of HBI’s 100 Prompts [Redone]
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As part of the bond agreement, PreservationAux is supposed be issued a standard rental SecUnit, all parts and systems functioning, and that's exactly what they get. The planet may have undocumented and deadly fauna, glitches and equipment failure may be mounting, but at least they don't have to deal with a rogue SecUnit on top of everything.
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
28 Sep 2025
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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forgive your enemies by AllieTheBard
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Sep 2025
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This is just another job. Dr. Gurathin needs to approach Dr. Mensah, befriend her, and await further instructions. Nothing too difficult, as PresAux appears to be an easy target.
But their security consultant might make the mission significantly more complicated.
AU: Alternate timeline where PresAux meets Murderbot first.
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Rescue Mission by franticyoohooing
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Sep 2025
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I found myself wondering how Murderbot would understand Neal Caffrey's ankle monitor. Then I started wondering if there was any way I could get them to meet.
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Being the teenaged Crown Princess of Salvation would be hard enough, without the part where Amena’s secretly a triple agent, pretending to infiltrate the rebellion, to keep her mother happy, as part of her real work with the rebellion to take her mother down. And now she has to go to school too?
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- Part 4 of Murderbot Mirror Universe
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“On the Corporation Rim, eventually there is nothing but misery. Yet the fucking party goes on!” (Gurathin episode 10)
Leebeebee might have been born into misery, but she was going to get to that party if it killed her.
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Reruns & Resets by Lizzie_The_Witch
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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“ Maybe I would be less annoyed had it not been brought up a subjective one million times (and an objective two dozen) how it was “nice to have everyone back together” on a “peaceful survey this time”. Ratthi had made sure to comment that for all that the first survey had been a “total nightmare” it was “worth it to have met you SecUnit!” That had given me the same melty feeling in my chest that I’d gotten when Mensah had told me she saw me “as a person just trying to help” back on that first survey together.
I was trying not to think about that though. Not that, or the way my drones captured Ratthi’s grin when he’d spoken. Or any of the melty and soft feelings my humans gave me sometimes. But especially not Ratthi. Because if I thought about him at all, I’d have to think about his blood on my face.”
Set in a mix of the Book Universe & the TV Universe, Murderbot and the PresAux crew are on another planetary survey mission. Everything is peaceful until it isn’t and Murderbot gets trapped in a nightmarish Time Loop like something out of one of its serials. Murderbot is hellbent on saving its humans and breaking free of the loop whatever it takes.
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If you need to have an emotion and lack a helmet, a blanket is fine by Earako
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Sep 2025
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Dr.Mensah was fine.
She was!
...she...she was-
She didn't need to be coddled like a child
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Nobody expects to time travel to happen outside of the entertainment feed, but twenty-two days into the PreservationAux survey reality decides that it prefers to circumvent expectations and drops an older version of Dr.Gurathin and someone called 'Rin' that's he's apparently married right into the middle of things.
Surely this is going to go well for everyone.
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hold the quiet by aloneintherain
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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SecUnit is staring at him. Ratthi accidentally makes eye contact again, and its gaze doesn’t dart away like it normally does. It stays locked onto his. Deliberately maintaining the eye contact.
Ratthi flexes his hands. His skin is tacky with fluids and the webs of his fingers stick together. “You’re really worrying me, SecUnit. Talk to me. Tell me you’re okay.”
“I’m okay,” SecUnit says immediately.
(OR: After Murderbot is attacked by the company and has its governor module switched back on, it can’t speak freely to ask for help. It takes its friends a while to notice.)
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The Preservation crew have been targeted by an unknown enemy. Unless they can stay one step ahead until the Company arrives, they may never make it back to Preservation.
Then SecUnit comes up with a plan.
It's dangerous, and sounds improbable. But it may also be their best option.
Gurathin's role is integral to its success. He isn't afraid that he'll fail... but he's afraid that SecUnit might.
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This work covers the period from confronting GrayCris all the way to the very end of All Systems Red/Season 1.
Tags may be added if I forgot any for later chapters. If they change, I'll specify in a note.
Follows immediately after previous work.
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- Part 8 of Perceptive, Observant, Vigilant
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An Hour From the Kitchen Cupboard by noctiphobia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Sep 2025
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Dr. Gurathin has quietly come to the conclusion they prefer neutral gender identifiers. Murderbot feels indifferent about this. Still, this change somehow sets them on a path to forming a strong, strangely close bond. They end up talking about gender and feelings and learn a lot about each other. It's all very complicated and weird.
"I’d sat down 32.6 centimeters closer to Gurathin. My body had subconsciously chosen to sit in the middle of the couch, when previously we’d been at the two furthest ends from each other. Worse still, in the moment I somehow hadn’t even registered this change. I ran a full retroactive systems diagnostic, but everything came back operational and untampered. Upon seeing this complete report my performance reliability dropped by 2%. What was happening to me?"
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You're lucky I love you, you idiot by dr_robosaur
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Sep 2025
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Murderbot doesn't realize how beloved it is. It's going to take a lot of convincing.
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SecUnit's Preservation humans have concocted a plan so evil, it takes even it by surprise:
They're... perceiving it. Having thoughts and emotions about it. And they wrote them down. -
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SecUnit brings ART back to preservation, and tries to help it adjust to its new situation.
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- Part 2 of Construct ART