A/N: Wish it was mine, but it's not.
Title: In the blink of an eye
Prompt: Lapse, noun (2): a period of time between two things that happen
Rating: PG
Words: 100
A poet might have said that it happened in the blink of an eye.
Actually, it happened in between two.
Blink.
The gun fires.
The bullet whirs through the air.
His short, but brilliant, life flashes before his eyes. There isn't much that makes him proud.
Wide eyes examine the blood staining his new suit.
Surely that should have hurt?
Oh. It had.
PainpainpainpainPAIN.
Butler is calling his name, slapping his cheeks.
With one bloody hand, he catches a tear as it falls from his bodyguard's face, and stares at it in wonder.
Blink.
His eyes don't open again.