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1. Lay down on the floor/Turn on the radio by crawlingvoid

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   22 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • ART | Perihelion & Murderbot
   • ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion
   • Ambiguous Relationships
   • Queerplatonic Relationships
   • The most preventative of preventative construct maintenance
   • Psychological Trauma
   • implied OCD compulsions
   • Canon-Typical Mental Health Issues
   • Implied/Referenced Violence
   • Implied/Referenced Memory Loss
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • proper but unnecessary use of ART's medsys
   • Admittedly valid fear for the future
   • mild identity issues

   Summary

   I don’t know why I ever let you leave, ART says. 

   You can’t keep me locked up on you forever, I tell it.

   What would you do about it? ART shifts its weight, and presses down into me. 

   ___
   A brief interlude while Murderbot and ART travel back to Preservation.

   Series

   • Part 2 of Damage and Cost Report for Machine Repossession

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