knees or ankles. No preference. :)
Knees: ((This is Movie-Verse esque, sorry if that doesn't coordinate well with your canon! I just thought it'd be neat to write out.))
Until this moment, Cora had never seen the ex-Russian fearful of anything. She'd seen Natasha on the wrong end of a knife or gun more times than she could count, watched her jump out of helicopters from the HQ live feed, and never, in all her moments of life brushing against death, she'd never seen the agent flinch or whimper, never saw her stray away from the frighting and difficult.
Until Dr. Banner had raised his voice, that is.
It had been a relatively harmless action. The gamma expert had been in his lab, and the corridor between there and the main office had proved a journey he wasn't up for taking, and the doctor was out of clean vials. So he shouted down the hall for some, forgetting for a moment that an innocent shout was a cry of war as far as the SHIELD agents were concerned. Natasha had been in Cora's office when Bruce had called out, and for a moment, both women were silent, tense, hands glued to their handguns. Once Bruce had stepped out of his lab and apologized for the scare, Cora's heart slowed to a normal pace, but Natasha was frozen, her Sig Sauer pistol trembling in her palm as she slowly crept towards the door, the erratic thump of her heartbeat visible through her catsuit. Her face was milk white, the plush edges of her lips the only indicator that color had ever existed there. Cora paused for a moment, unsure of how to console the agent. She rose from her desk chair, slowly, her footsteps light against the tile floor as she crossed to the horrified women ready to strike the innocent man who'd spoken a little too loudly.