A/N: Hi again! Hope you are all having a good day/night/whatever time it happens to be in your neck of the woods!

Once again, we're starting another drabble collection. This collection will be based on song/lyric prompts from the Facebook Fanfic Drabble Challenge for March. To let you know up front, updates for this collection will be sporadic. They will include all the characters and various genres, though most will probably be some sort of angst or hurt/comfort. I hope you all enjoy these!

Drabble #1 goes to Hotch.


March 1

Slipping Through My Fingers – ABBA

"Sometimes I wish that

I could freeze the picture

And save it from

The funny tricks of time"


Slipping Away

He sighed as he looked at the framed photograph of himself, his wife, and their newborn son. They were all smiles and giggles that day as their perfect little man wrapped his tiny hand around his father's finger. There was admiration and affection in their eyes as husband and wife gazed lovingly at each other. Their first family portrait. It was a love that songs and fairy tales were written about.

And now…

An empty house.

An empty bed.

A gaping hole where his heart should be.

"We were happy once, Haley," he whispered as he brushed away the single teardrop from his eye. "What happened to us? How did we get so broken?"

He asked himself those questions over and over as his eyes dropped to the divorce papers glaring at him from his desk, then back to the photo of the happy family on the mantle. What he wouldn't give to go back, to hold onto that moment of perfection and sheer bliss, to freeze that moment in time before his entire world slipped through his fingers.