• .Paulette & Chaffin: The War on Wishes #3: The Last Wish. (CCC #75/ CCCEC #4)

Hot Sistah began glowing red hot, and started to advance on Detective Chaffin. "I'm gonna burn you, pig."

Gragg gritted his teeth. Realizing that his baton was only going to melt against Hot Sistah's heat, Gragg dropped it, pulled his gun, and shot Hot Sistah four times in the chest. She dropped unconscious, scorching the grass around her, and immediately started to cool to normal. Chaffin could see that her fiery exterior had been hiding a bulletproof vest. "Lucky girl. I see this isn't your first firefight." Shaking his head, he holstered his gun, and pulled out his handcuffs. "I'm getting really sick of this," he said as he locked her wrists together.

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• .C-Note.
• .Coolbreeze.
• .Fade.
• .Flipside.
• .Freestyle.
• .Smackdown.
• .Solid.
• .Throwdown.

• .Crystal Salt.
• .Gragg Chaffin.
• .Heironymous.
• .Mary Paulette.

• .The Pusher.

• Magic

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• West Liberty Street Underpass
• Liberty Street
• Norfolk, VA

• Wish

• .The Liberteens.

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Honestly, I'm not as happy with this name as the others. Sixties-ish slang tends to turn me off for some reason, but I couldn't get away from the image of Hot Sistah being flame/ magma powered. I didn't really have any use for her beyond sticking her in The Slang Gang though.

I'd have actually killed her off in this story, but I had some problems with that:

1. In the contest version, Mary shoots Hot Sistah, and there's no mention of whether she's alive or dead. No one else dies in this story though. To kill off one character just didn't seem right here.
2. Detective Mary Paulette is named after my aunt, and I just couldn't see her doing that. I have no doubt that she would have if she'd had to as that was her training, but to my knowledge she never had to in real life. So I'm not a fan of having her do it here, even though Hot Sistah represents a high level of danger, and shooting to kill would be a warranted response when she attacks.
3. For this post, I changed things around, having Mary fight Fade, and Gragg fight and shoot Hot Sistah. Gragg Chaffin is named after a real life family member too though, and I didn't really want him to kill in this story either.

I couldn't think of another way to bring Hot Sistah down though, so I stuck with the shooting. I thought of saying that her heat aura melted the bullets, keeping the impact from being lethal, but a) I really needed her to be at least unconscious, and b) that just sounds stupid. Still, not wanting her to be the story's only casualty, I came up with the bulletproof vest. It had the unintentional benefit of adding a tiny bit of depth to her character which is always nice. (Source)

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