I carry your heart with me

There is a moment in everyone's life, where they are overcome with great clarity. An epiphany. When all the world around them stops spinning, momentarily, and everything slows, just for them. A way for your mind and spirit to catch up to what your heart has been trying so desperately to tell you... For Katharine Beckett...that moment is now.

I am never without it

The heart, in which she has coveted for these past few years, beats softly in the palm of her hand. She's had it, almost from the start. The strongest muscle in the human body. It pulsates, a rhythmic song, vibrating against her skin, and connecting with her own. But her own heart? It beats a little faster. Anxious and tired of waiting for her signal... for it still sits in her chest, behind the walls of her soul, of her fear, and pain. The solace she has never let herself feel. But now?

I fear

no fate

As her dark emerald eyes, flecked with golden brown, lay on the handsome face of Richard Castle, Kate realizes that love is not something you take for granted. Love is not something you feel, and yet hold inside you out of fear of getting hurt. That is almost inevitable. What is life, and love without risks? Risking our hearts is why we are alive. And if that is the case...what has she been doing? Love is everything. It is the air she breaths. Love is the ground she had always walked upon with a stride so light. Kate Beckett feared it would break beneath her every step. But now she wants more.

I want no world and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

In this moment. She needs nothing else. Just the feel of his gaze, the lightest touch of his skin, the passionate kiss to her flesh. His words, his body, his soul...everything that is him, she needs, and wants.

And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Always.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

He has always held her heart. He has been the key to the lock of her soul. The light in the darkness. The shadow keeping her company when she's otherwise saddened in loneliness. And she has always fought against it. Afraid that her heart could not withstand the pressure of his loving gaze.

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

No longer.

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

Kate turns towards him. Having been sitting silently in the bullpen. It's after hours. They are the only two left, and he has been sitting here patiently for her while she finishes up paper work...Patently for her to gather her courage and bare her soul to him. With a deep breath, and an expel of warm, sweet air through her nose, Kate leans back in her chair and regards him with a soft smile. Her heart leaps in her chest, knowingly. Eager and full of relief. He looks up, then. Sensing a change in her. He tilts his head to one side and smiles back. What she says next will forever keep that smile upon his face.

"You carry my heart."

Poem by e.e. cummings - i carry your heart with me