This next part is a bit shorter and switches perspectives a bit, and I'd love to have some feedback as to whether it works for you or not. Enjoy!
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Outside, on the city streets, Josh ran.
He had missed the bus by a mere 30 seconds, and he knew after six months of living in the city that the next one wouldn’t be around for another 10 minutes. He had done the math in his head: Jane’s place was only a seven minute run away, and whatever she had called for sounded serious enough not to wait.
He swiftly crossed a busy intersection, pace barely slowing as he dodged oncoming traffic. Josh had been keeping in good shape, in spite of the nights of heavy drinking that came with the tuition at college. Slipping in behind an arriving tenant, Josh trotted up the steps to Jane’s apartment. He quickly mopped sweat off his brow, composing himself as he caught his breath on Jane’s doorstep. I’m not even that winded! He smiled to himself as he knocked on Jane’s door
“It’s-it’s open!” Jane’s voice called from beyond the oak door, but it sounded different, almost tinny. Josh shrugged and turned the handle.
Crossing the barrier, his jaw dropped at what he saw.
At her desk on the other side of the apartment, Jane sat topless, the straps of her tank top slipped down off her shoulders to reveal her bare breasts underneath. One hand hung limply at her side while the other was stuck halfway down her skirt, fingers shiny with some kind of fluid. But that wasn’t what had Josh transfixed. Situated just above her b-cups was an LCD panel with the words “Virus Detected” flashing in angry red.
“Would you…help me…please?” She managed. Her voice sounded distorted, electronic, and rapid.
“Jane, you’re an android?”
She managed a jerky nod. “It was was was supposed to b-be a…a…ssssssecret. Aah!” The stricken android gasped as her body went through a series of spasms. Josh took a step forward, looking on in amazement until her shaking subsided.
“Error. Failure in primary motion control board. Please service.” Jane announced in a monotone, her head now slumped over against the chair, only her mouth moving.
Josh knelt by her. “What do you need me to do?”
“Hook meeee up t-to the c-cc-com-com-computer-rr.” Jane said, voice buzzing with distortion.
“How?”
In response, a small port opened underneath Jane’s left breast from a seam Josh had barely seen. Josh noticed a series of ports and card slots nestled between winking LEDs.
“Which one? Jane?” Josh looked up. The spark in Jane’s eyes was rapidly fading.
“N-nn-n-nooooteb-boook.” Her body shuddered and jerked. Josh grabbed the book off of Jane’s desk. “J-Josh? I-II-II-IIIIIIIIIIII-Warning. Unit Jane4896 sysstem kernnelll integgggritttyyy commmpromissssed.” Jane’s voice started slowing, syllables elongating with distortion. “Viiiiiralllll inffffffillllltrrrraaaaatiooonn deeeeeeeeetttteccc-c-c-c…” She trailed off, words too distorted to be intelligible.
Her LCD panel wavered as a new message popped up. “To prevent further damage, this unit will be shut down in 15 sec…” The numbers began to tick down.
Jane’s voice was nothing but a buzzing drone now. Her mind swam as the virus ate away at the last of her firewalls protecting her consciousness. A tingling numbness began to creep through her body as she lost contact with her tactile sensors while her processors were bombarded with random touch data as the systems that controlled them went haywire. A searing pain hit her leg while her right hand froze. Someone tickled her abdomen, but she wasn’t 100% sure that the feeling of fluid leaking out her crotch and down her leg was fake. Taste and smell failed, a myriad of scents and flavors rippling through her sensors before they stopped responding altogether. Her hearing went next, the ambient sounds that she normally picked up so well took on an edge similar to that of an overcompressed MP3 before shutting off completely.
Jane felt a surge of panic as her sight began to go. Her vision faded and pixellated, and Josh’s face swirled into black. Now alone in her own body with nothing but her HUD to cling to, Jane felt the virus begin to touch her being.
Jane freaked. Her emotional subroutines went into overdrive as she began to frantically throw sensations, feelings, memories and experiences, some real and some generated into the virus’ path, attempting to “barricade” herself in her own mind. She began to lose conception of what was “real” and what wasn’t. Her body sensory deprived, mind vomiting whatever data it could in a vain effort to defend her failing consciousness. Her HUD flickered and flared, her processors too overtaxed and memory too full to process it properly. She felt herself fading, but…
The countdown! Yes! Like a beacon in the darkness, the subroutine controlling her emergency shutdown stood, proudly announcing the time left until her deactivation. She reached out for it and, like a lifeline for her mind, clung to it as the time passed down to zero. Her last thought before the power drained from her body was Josh, and the hope that he would do the right thing.
The indeterminable eternity for Jane passed quickly for Josh, who held the android girl’s hand until her LCD screen flickered and went out. He turned his attention to the notebook in his lap, reading the passage again.
“As you see, I am a robot.” It began, “Sorry I had to keep this from you =( I got a virus, please help! You’re my only hope! My pass: pRoto5f85. Please! I trust you. Your friend, Jane.”
Josh looked up at the computer screen, seeing Jane’s remote system status and logs. Shifting his inert friend onto the bed, he took a seat in her desk chair, still warm from the overheating android that had occupied it a moment before. He looked remorsefully at Jane’s inert form, eyes still open and slightly wide, but with a relaxed expression on her face. Josh slid her eyelids shut. It just looks like she’s sleeping, well, absent the fact that she’s not breathing. Shaking his head, he caressed her cheek, still warm and soft. His fingers traced over seams on her body he'd never noticed before, visible now that her power was cut. He looked back down at the notebook and wondered what to do now.
In his life, Josh had seen and known many androids. There were always telltale signs, a little too polite, too demure, too perfect and helpful and willing to help out, plus the fact that they almost always concluded their introductions with “I’m an android.” Jane, however, exhibited none of that. She was so real, from her smile, her laugh, the corny jokes she cracked, down to the way she felt when she and Josh had made out a month ago. Of course, sexuality and realism were standard in androids, but it was often only reactive, and Jane had been the one making all the moves that night.
The idea of sexuality got him thinking: who was her master? Josh suddenly sat bolt upright: if Jane’s master found him here, with their infected half-naked android on the bed behind him… he shuddered at what might happen, and he quickly began mousing through Jane’s still open Bot Power Tool software. His eyes darted through her “Unit Summary”:
Name: Jane Sanders
AI Level: FW A+
Model: FAA55712
Sleeper: No (F.A.)
Owner: self
Josh paused at that, breathing a deep sigh of relief. Unless Jane’s master’s name was “self” (highly unlikely), then it was a pretty slim chance that someone was going to walk in on them and beat him to a bloody pulp. It did, by itself, raise a few troubling points in Josh’s mind. While self owned AIs weren’t illegal, they weren’t technically legal either: one of those grey areas the courts didn’t really want to touch until absolutely necessary.
On a more technical side, the “back end” of an AI usually could only be accessed by their owner, and while Josh had her root password, he wasn’t sure her system would let him in to fix her without her owner, herself, who needed him to fix her before she could fix herself. Josh rubbed his temples. Whatever, he thought, Jane obviously knew there was a way for me to fix her, and I’m not going to get anywhere if I don’t try.
Josh nodded with determination. “Okay, Jane. I’m going to save your life.” With that, he cracked his fingers and got to work.
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My apologies for the shorter update, it just seemed like the best place for a break. Expect the conclusion tomorrow
I should hopefully have it up sometime today, though. 
