"Same reason I started waitressing," Nikita replied with a small smile. "Needed the money and I knew someone willing to hire me. It's the kind of job that doesn't really need a lot of education, and that worked for me too."

She'd worked as a waitress on and off since she tended to get fired for mouthing off at customers, but she was still grateful to the person who'd given her a job that first time, and more grateful to Kenya for taking a chance on her like this. She'd had some experience when she started with Kenya, obviously, but the holes in her resume were pretty much unexplainable. Kenya hadn't asked, though.

"Not everybody's gotta wanna save the world to be a cop. I think for most people it's just a job like anything else."