A/N: Still not mine.
Title: Paramnesia
Prompt: Lapse, phr. verb (1): (lapse into) to gradually pass into a worse or less active state or condition
Rating: PG
Words: 100
He may have deserved it, but as always, Butler's hand caught the girl's elbow before her slap could land.
Artemis hit the ground anyway, caught up in some parallel universe where the blow had connected.
It had happened before. It was starting to happen more frequently.
This time, he was catatonic for almost a minute before he snapped out of it, shaking and muttering about lollipops.
All Artemis could think, as he was wheeled into the psychiatric ward for 'some tests', was that they had assured him that the after-effects would be minor.
Whoever 'they' were, they had been wrong.