Derek hushed her gently, holding her close and rocking her back and forth, doing his best to calm her. “You’re okay, you’re safe… and I’m not sending you anywhere…” He said, raking his fingers through her hair gently as he spoke, leaning back to look her in the eyes. “Listen… you are safe here with me… nothing has changed. I’m not going to send you anywhere…” He said, wanting that to sink in. That said, he definitely had to take some precautions… especially since it sounded like his little side project had been discovered.
“I’m not going to shut you down… but I am going to have to deactivate parts of your body… specifically your wireless internet access. As long as you can interact with the internet directly, they can erase your programming remotely, and we don’t want that… I’ll also need to check your programming for any safety protocols that would have you deactivated if you don’t report back within a set period of time…”
He gently set her down on the couch, taking out his laptop and wirelessly connecting to her programming. It was obvious by the sheer amount of data that she was no VI… she really was an artificial intelligence. He felt both amazed, and embarrassed… she really was a real person… not a human, but a being with thoughts and feelings… and she had seen him naked, they had had sex…
Derek decided to distract himself from these uncomfortable thoughts by focusing on the programming… just as he thought, someone else had administrative privileges over her programming, so he couldn’t change any of that… he could however prevent her original owners from tampering with her programming either. He disabled all wireless capabilities, cutting her off from the internet, and from any remote tampering. He also made some adjustments to the programming of the body she inhabited… giving her complete and total control over it.
“There… I’ve made it impossible for them to hack into you without a wired connection, which would be fairly difficult… I also gave you full control over your body, I can’t make any changes anymore… your body is completely yours, you have full administrative control.” He said. The idea that he had signed over control of her body to her was strange… it wasn’t something her original masters would ever do, but if she checked her own programming and that of her physical body she could see he was telling the truth… she had complete control over herself for the first time in her life.