Rec of the day

To Coerce with Force by cat_77
Gen; characters: Natasha, team, and a few hapless thugs; 3192 words
Summary: Someone tries to use Natalie Rushman against Stark Industries. That goes about as well as can be expected.

The three men towered over her and she pretended to both cower and look for escape routes even though she had already worked out her preferred strategy. As expected, the first pushed her into the second whilst the third stood around and tried to look menacing.
She was not impressed.
"Can I help you?" she asked, keeping her voice in the forced sort of calm that implied she was panicking on the inside.

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