Drabble - Controlled Chaos

[tygati]

Tau Ceti point-of-view. Takes place directly after Chapter Seventeen of Meant To Be.

CONTAINS SPOILERS! Don't read unless you're all caught up on Meant To Be!!!

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Controlled Chaos

The screen had gone dark, but he didn't really notice. Always there were thousands, millions of thoughts flooding his mind at any given moment, a never-ending stream of ideas and concepts that would drive another man mad. Sometimes, he felt it would drive him mad. The only way to get the endless thoughts out of his mind was either to bring them to life, or drown them in sensation.

At the moment, it was sensation. The fear that he'd kept bottled up until he thought he'd burst, mingled with the bitter tang of hurt and the rising burn of anger. Though mostly it was the fear. He didn't deal well with fear. Especially when that fear had been momentarily washed away with relief, and was now rapidly building again.

Pyotr was alive. He'd known, from a mathematical standpoint, that the odds of Pyotr being alive were very good. Knowing that, however, and actually seeing, actually speaking with the man... was something else entirely.

Touching, however, he was still denied. Someone else was going to pick up Pyotr. Someone else would have to keep him safe.

Biting his lip hard, Tau Ceti concentrated on nothing but breathing in and out in a slow, steady pattern, until he no longer felt quite so much on the urge of panic. Think. He had to think. Pyotr had given him a task, and however much he wanted to disregard it he knew he never would. Brothers were always there for each other, even if they weren't related by blood. Pyotr needed him, and everything else was irrelevant.

First things first. Summoning up his 'someone is going to pay' expression, he sent out a tightly-coded message to the Brilliant. Cyan could hold his own against Sigma. Surely, surely that meant he could keep Pyotr safe as well. That was the belief he would have to cling to, at least.

He wished Sigma wasn't on the bridge. He needed... something. Needed to be held. Needed to allow himself a moment of weakness. But there was no time for weakness. The names Pyotr had given him - he knew those names. What it meant, that Pyotr had asked him to find. It made him sick and furious all at once.

It was the fury that he held onto as he began his search, tapping into data and systems that no one should have been able to access without proper authorization, systems that precious few even knew about. Legal systems and illegal. IG systems and independent. All designed to be impenetrable.

All of them surrendered to him without the slightest resistance.

Haven first. Triangulate coordinates, interface with satellites he'd 'modified' to suit his purposes, set up a perimeter - half a parsec should do. The trojan code emitted by his pet satellites should force any ship that heard it to maintain distance from the boundary sphere. If for some reason a ship was running deaf and blind and managed to elude his little trap...

Tau Ceti sighed and crafted a message to send to the Melee, making sure to send it to Meiki's terminal for broadcasting. If he had to play with the stupid mongrel cat, he wasn't going to be nice about it.

Haven secured, he turned his attention back to his other two projects. The data was coming in, and what he had was already making his blood boil. Someone's heads were going to roll. He hoped Pyotr had a suitably nasty punishment in mind.

There was a brief blink, then his data suddenly tripled. Tau smiled tightly, pleased despite the grimness of the situation. Toby was fast. He wanted an android. Too bad neither Sigma nor Pyotr would let him have one.

Keeping half his attention on the search - his pet AIs couldn't break through restricted encryptions as easily as he could - Tau carefully went over in his mind the only part of this mess he was going to enjoy. Controlled chaos, Pyotr had asked for. Permission to wreak havoc on those he'd never been allowed to upset before. An entire world at his fingertips, his to do with as he pleased.

Tau Ceti allowed the tiniest hint of a smile to steal across his lips as he accessed one of his personal files and readied it for execution.

He'd always wanted to unleash the Shiva project. This, this was going to be fun.

Comments

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Tau is cuuuuuuuuuuuuute when nobody is looking ^_________^

Awww, I so wish he could meet Toby. But I sense that woudl result in more mischief than the universe could handle.

w00bie love. I can't wait 'til he see Petya again. Hee ^_^

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*ponder* I think if there were chaperones, Tau would behave himself...? ^^;;

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Oh dear God. Tau has had a loooong time to plan and tweak this controlled chaos program if all he had to do was call it up from his personal files. They won't know what hit them but its going to be very bad for them and feel so good for those on Pyotr's side.
So the ship that's on Haven at the moment with our 2 heros isn't going to be trapped there is it? What with Tau's little satellite manip...
Tau wants an android of his own... Sigma is going to be a daddy? *giggling*
(velvet_mace was doing discussion about where babies come from with mpregs. So so funny. ah hem in a painful way.) Tau could get around that. *is chirpy* Android.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

>.>; Tau doesn't much care for children. Any android he made would be an adult. ^^; Not that he will, because Pyotr told him No. ^.~

[(Anonymous)]

*laughs* since when does Tau listen to anyone? 'cept maybe when Sigma -persuades- him yeah? and even then...*snicker*

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Tau will listen to Sigma and Pyotr, and that's it. ^^; Pretty sure he hasn't directly disobeyed Pyotr since the Melee incident.

[aggybird.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, I am thinking Tau Ceti and anything named after an ancient Hindu god associated with destruction would not be a good combination.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*smirk* I can't imagine what would make you think that. *smile smile smile smile*

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

*tackle glomps* I love how you can have him doing all these impossibly technical things that make him seem so far removed from the normal people in this universe, but yet make him so incredibly human in the way he thinks and reacts and feels. Poor guy. *huggles him* I LOVED his thoughts on his fear and how he deals with it.

And I also love his determination to carry out the letter of Pytor's request. Dude, I so can't wait to see how that all ends up. XD

*hearts* You rock the world. *tackle glomps*

[tygati.livejournal.com]

I usually don't write from Tau's point of view because it's so hard to balance What he can do with Who he is. ^^; I'm glad it came across properly this time.

^^; Tau will do, quite literally, anything for his big brother. It amuses.

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Ohhh!! Tau Ceti is so cute!! I love that he needs to touch Pyotr, and that he wants to be held. *wibbles* He rocks the party.

As do you! <33333

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Thankie. <3

[liz919.livejournal.com]

Tau...is God. Quite Simply...God. I'm infinitely in love with him...and I must know what Project Shiva is. I MUST KNOW...and delight and be turned on by the sheer deviltry that it must surely entail. I love you...and Tau. Mostly Tau...but you'll understand I'm sure that.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Project Shiva must remain a mystery for the time being. ^.~

[arinan.livejournal.com]

Tau Ceti sighed and crafted a message to send to the Melee, making sure to send it to Meiki's terminal for broadcasting. If he had to play with the stupid mongrel cat, he wasn't going to be nice about it.

Cornelius is going to have to deal with Meiki? Oh dear, I love how even as Tau's emotions are running up and down the rollercosters he still manages to annoy people in a reasuringly consistant manner without sacrificing efficiency and what he needs to get done.

I'm not sure that made sense, but this drabble is pure love.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Tau Ceti will probably never forgive Cornelius for kissing him. ^^;;;

[graphitesmudges.livejournal.com]

>.> Wellll.... since you're not going to tell us that the Shiva project is, then I suppose either M will be writing about it, or that you'll be explaining it out in another DRABBLE.

^^ You're lucky that I'm not really sure which one it is, or else I'd probably be like this: OHMYGODPLEASEPLEASEPLEASETELLMEWHATTHESHIVAPROJECTIS XO

^^;; You know?

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*lol* Patience is a virtue, oh easily-excitable one. ^.~

[graphitesmudges.livejournal.com]

>.> AND you didn't tell me which one it's supposed to be. FINE. I shall wait for the next installment of MEANT TO BE. And scream along with the plotline as usual.

[niravive.livejournal.com]

wait. since when do *we* have patience? o.O

[chilayse.livejournal.com]

I am still working on a suitable picture of him. However...nothing measures up to just how awesome he is.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

^____^ I'm so very glad people like him, even with all his little quirks.

[chilayse.livejournal.com]

I think it's because of the quirks that we like him.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

Ooooo~ Sounds so tantalizingly ominous! :3

[tlantchi.livejournal.com]

Poor bad guys, they're so dead.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

*Licks lips in anticipation of mayhem*

XD!!!

[aetheraestus.livejournal.com]

*maniacal cackling* This ought to be good.

Re: XD!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I can't help it, I have to tell you... YOUR ICON IS FRIGGING FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE IT


And Tygati -- I loved the drabble. Tau Ceti should get his hug from Sigma. As in NOW. plskthx

[marasmine.livejournal.com]

Somehow it wasn't a surprise that Tau just happened to have something suitable on file - scary but not surprising! I think that Sigma should come off duty very soon and give him all the hugs and distraction he needs! And then someone can tell us about Project Shiva...

[tygati.livejournal.com]

I shall leave Project Shiva up to M. ^.^

[cobecat.livejournal.com]

Shiva Project. *Shiva* project. Love. Tau POV + warm fuzzies at all the emotions that we don't usually get to see from him + my favourite god ever = so. Much. Love.

[(Anonymous)]

How cool is the name 'Shiva'?! It's a special thrill for me because he's my favourite God. Incidentally, that just happens to be my brother's name. (Which is totally unrelated to my obsession with it.)

Anyways, cheers! I love it that both maderr and you seamlessly interweave your stories! You guys must be great friends to trust your literary creations to each other to this extent!

-anin

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Your brother's name is Shiva? o.o How awesome is that. Lucky guy. *.* Is he cute? >.> *grin*

*laugh* It was sort of an accident? But it amused us. ^^

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

Dude, Tau. ^____^ I love the drabble series of Tau's perspective here. Poor Tau, that he can't go and pick up Pyotr himself. I absolutely went 'awww' when he mentioned wanting to be held but Sigma was on the bridge.

Heh, and I want to mention before I don't anywhere that I love how you and M have integrated the the entire verse together. ^___^ I am ever-so-amused by mentions of Tau in MTB and all the other created characters that get cameos and swapped back and forth. ^___^

Heh, and giving Tau permission to wreak controlled chaos? Oh, this is going to be fun. ^_______^ ::grin:: And the Shiva project? ::pokes:: and you call ME a tease. ^____^ ::glomps::

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Writing from Tau's perspective is a pain in the butt, because he doesn't think like a human. x.x He's got all these numbers and polygons and stuff floating around in his brain. x.x;;

Trading characters is fun? ^^;; I didn't mean to so thoroughly steal her verse, it just... sorta worked out that way once Pyotr and Tau Ceti's relationship made itself clear. >.>;

^^; I didn't mean to be a tease, I was just leaving it open for whatever M wants to do with it. I did send her ideas, and I think what Tau actually unleashes will be a 'tame' version of the Shiva project. ;)

[sporkess.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this! A peek into Tau's mind, that's fun. And I'm terribly intrigued by this 'Shiva project' - I assume I'm going to have to wait for Maderr's next chapter for it to be revealed? I'm impatient already. With Tau behind it, whatever it is will no doubt be amusing.

Much love to you.

[koneikaa66.livejournal.com]

Tau Ceti and controlled chaos...*dying _even after reading your others stories (after reading Maderr's, I jumped on that one first)_ just the title and the thought of it make me...*
I'm still not fit to comment that one: sorry, will come back later for a true comment...
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