Having been frowning at the water as it reluctantly filled his bucket - in a less than hot state - Tau hadn\'t heard Jed\'s approach. Having then been concentrating on not spilling said water once he\'d deposited chemicals into it and started walking it towards his end of the balcony, he hadn\'t caught his spring, either. Until it was too late.
He let out a strangled yowl as he dropped the bucket, was heaved away from where it was plummeting towards the floor, gathered the presence of mind to employ his excellent reflexes, lurched against the restraints of his brother\'s arms and only managed to solidly thwack the bucket as he attempted to recover it. To no avail; Jed plus gravity plus momentum were too great a challenge to overcome in an instant. He did manage to send the water container to the ground faster... and with a bit of a spin that splashed lukewarm liquid and disinfectant up the wall and through the doorway into the bathroom.
Of course, he only had a glimpse and the ability to anticipate what would truly happen once the tips of his fingers brushed plastic, for the kitchen counter soon blocked his vision as his attacker set him firmly down on his back on the kitchen floor. Since his head was still craning to see what became of his former possession, he had no real sense of where the floor was, either - so his head came back too far and he smacked the back of it down hard enough to spread a momentary flare of numb happiness across his scalp, before his brain shuddered and kicked up a stink in the form of an immediate headache.
Face scrunched in pain and disbelief, he turned to look towards his brother, finding himself eye to eye with a bare muscular shoulder. "Jedfuck... " he growled, hands bunching to start extricating himself - by whatever physical means necessary - from the other shifter\'s hold as soon as he\'d got his question out, "what are you doing?!" The nickname had arisen from stringing his littermate\'s name to the obscenity so often that it had become a habit... by no means could it ever be construed as an endearment. Also, he never said it unless he meant it (which was always).