A Little Word

Posted by siria

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Murderbot realizes that Gurathin accidentally transferred some of his own memories when he was restoring Murderbot's. As it experiences moments from Gurathin's life (in order to tag them to delete, of course) it chats with him over the feed, debates the finer points of Sanctuary Moon's subtext, and definitely doesn't discover anything about itself.

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Posted by siria

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Gurathin gets afflicted by an aphrodisiacal toxin. Unfortunately, he can't bear to let any of the crew help him.

Which leaves, of course, the SecUnit.

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Posted by siria

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67106122

His first thought is to try Duolingo, which Nile praises as the end-all-be-all to language learning, but Nicky gets annoyed with the little cartoon owl within the first few days, and he hates the fixation on random words. Why does Duolingo believe so strongly that Nicky needs to know how to say “garage door” in Arabic? Nicky doesn’t even have a garage.

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Or: modern AU Nicky learns Arabic for his boyfriend Joe.

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Posted by siria

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Gifting someone a stethoscope at a milestone was very traditional, he knew, but some traditions should be observed. They kept you anchored to something greater than yourself. And this one was just...warm. Jack always thought of the people who'd given him his steths—Colonel Jacquemin, who'd gifted him his first Littmann when he finished residency, or Lizzie, who'd given him his current Littmann III when Adamson hired him as an attending. It was a reminder of the people who loved you, believed in you, helped you along the way, a physical token of those you carried with you.

Sure, maybe it wasn't exactly Jack's place to give one to Robby, more properly the domain of family or mentors. If Adamson had lived to retire, he would've gifted Robby a steth to celebrate his promotion, Jack was sure. Robby's family was gone, so that wasn't an option, and Jack would be damned if Robby's elevation to one of the highest posts in their field would go uncelebrated.

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