And she'd learned something new: Cole was a least a bit of a romantic. It was a telling thing to like watching the good guys winning and getting the girls. She didn't believe that the good guys did win in real life and she was actually a little unsure about whether there were any good guys at all, but it was nice to see them in movies. It was nice to pretend that they did exist. She'd agree with that.

"You ever seen The Princess Bride? It's a fantasy more than a Western, but the good guy does win and he gets the girl. And it's funny. A lot of westerns aren't funny."

She'd watched it once with Carla at Carla's insistence. It had come out when Nikita'd been ten or something, but she hadn't seen it. Carla had been utterly aghast and had insisted that they had to sit down and watch it that next weekend. So they had.