The First Time Castle/Beckett

Song: The First Time Ever I saw Your Face, Matt Cardle
Clips: Castle
Story: Trueheart
Video: Zocchi

They have loved each other always; they just didn't always know it. They live in love's breathless, restless, anticipation. With hope they realize their love and its power, seeing each other through pain and joy, for the first time.

Without words, for none are needed, everything poignant and passionate transcends from the piano, their instrument of love. The lyrics, melody and purity of voice carry the narrative and tell Rick and Kate's love story.

Kate stands, encircled, still, on a bomb. She sees Rick's face, for the first time. Eyes and heart meet; only passion. They touch; it is magic, a trembling handshake, fingers stroke and tease. Rick's hand gently glazes Kate's cheek; she caresses his hand, his touch.

"None of them were you," he proclaims in the azure beauty of the Hamptons, hands and fingers intertwined. With their first kiss, both stand suspended in shock and surprise, overwhelmed by their desire. They drink twice from each other's lips, locked; she strokes his hair; he sinks in hers; the earth trembles with their need.

Captivated, they cannot be apart. Through prison's wire and cage, their fingers seek to unite, to gather strength together. In the library they embrace, Kate captive in his arms, both enthralled with love and desire. With hands bound, trusting him, Kate leaps into his arms, encircles his head and pours out her fears and relief. Rick catches her as he always does; he cannot leave her. Never!

In the Hamptons they celebrate a night of love, bathed in candlelit glow, gentleness and infinite desire. Rick will stay...still, with her to die or live for love of Kate. Kate's tawny beauty delights as she awakes, outshining the sun, the moon, the stars. Rick's joy unhidden. He only wants her.

Which kiss the best? They tremble and see only each other.

At last Rick's face, clear and intense, stripped bare of any pretense reveals a man in love. Only honesty remains. He sees her face; he only wants her, all of her, forever.

I am real. I love you; I need you. I am yours. See my face.

For the first time ever I saw your face. Her heart sings: your face; your face: your face.

TRUEHEART/PEGGY