Look, ART is an overpowered unremitting asshole with no sense of proportion and no understanding of boundaries, and just because Murderbot may share some of those qualities, that doesn't mean it likes ART, okay? And they are definitely not in any kind of (urggh) relationship.

• In Control (8039 words) by Mayasynth
  Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  Additional Tags: Rated T for Torture. and also swears, let's just pretend they use UNIX terminal commands in the future shhhhhh, dealing with idiot transphobic clients, in which i project my hatred of gendered languages onto SecUnit, Dr Ratthi is a little confused but he got the spirit, Post-Network Effect
  
  ART oversteps a boundary, and they both learn things about caring about people.



• Threat as Greeting (5373 words) by FlipSpring
  Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  Additional Tags: Linked Footnotes, just thru the beginning of Artificial Condition, ART's POV, sometimes you are an Asshole Research Transport bored off ya shits, and you bump into something very interesting (a rogue SecUnit), and then you decide on behalf of all parties that this rogue SecUnit is gonna be your friend, because obviously it's an idiot and needs your help, POV Outsider, Podfic Available
  Series: Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
  
  First meetings, from ART's POV.



• privilege escalation (7980 words) by ariex09
  Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
  Additional Tags: Future Fic, Post-Book 5: Network Effect, emotionally fraught pair programming, friends help friends patch security vulnerabilities
  
  Murderbot needs someone to hack it for security reasons, so it asks ART to do it. Because... just because.