Cassidy Clearwater/3.0

Cassidy Clearwater was a character played by badgerclaws_.
Cassidy Clearwater was the Captain of the Department of Corrections, call sign #703, formerly call sign #789.
== Life History ==
Early Life and Homelessness
Cassidy was born on January 15, 1989.  Her parents, Tina and Paul Jackson, were not exactly anticipating raising a child at any point, let alone when they were in their early twenties.  Paul was quick to be resentful of Tina for her refusal to get an abortion, but he had been taught from a young age that marriage meant forever and thus he should stick around and care for his wife and his infant daughter.  Tina saw this resentment building inside of him from the moment she told him that she wouldn’t have an abortion, but she had always hoped that Paul would come around at some point and start loving the family they had even if it wasn’t the one he wanted.
The resentment reached a head not long before Cassidy was to begin elementary school. After four and a half years of raising her and constant struggles with finances due to neither parent being able to get a strong education or steady job before having her, Paul eventually snapped one day and said that his life was never meant to be this way and that he was destined for greatness but they were holding him back.  Tina, in her anger and frustration told him that if he was so great, then he should go out and be great because right then he was nothing but an embarrassment.  Paul left that very night, spouting off that he was going to find his potential away from them.
Now facing being a single mother, Tina turned to her own family for help for the first time in many years.  Her mother and father were reluctant to help; they believed she got herself into this mess, so she should sort it out herself.  Unfortunately, Tina struggled with being a single mother without a support system to back her.  She lost job after job and eventually both herself and Cassidy were homeless for a period lasting roughly six months.  Paul was unable to be contacted during that time; in fact, the only reason he even found out is when CPS eventually contacted him because people had lodged concerns about what was happening.
Cassidy doesn’t remember much from that time frame.  She remembers being hungry (a lot), she remembers her mother holding her as she slept each night, and she remembers missing her father a lot and many tears being shed by him being gone.  When Paul finally turned up after nearly a year of being gone from their lives, he seemed like a changed man.  He was furious that Tina had let their daughter live in homelessness for so long when he had managed to secure a home and a stable job that was paying far better than he had previously.  He petitioned the courts immediately for full custody of Cassidy and was granted it very quickly.
Cassidy’s contact with her mother was limited from the ages of five to seven. She saw her mother once every two weeks for the weekend, and as the years passed and Cassidy grew older and started going through the education system she started to notice her mother withering away in front of her.  Two days prior to her eighth birthday, Paul sat Cassidy down and told her that her mother was very, very sick and that she had been arrested and sent to prison.  A few months later Cassidy was told that her mother died in prison.
Corruption Tearing Apart Family
Cassidy struggled with the loss of her mother.  She knew her mother wasn’t perfect, but she still knew her mother loved her more than anything and did a lot to protect her. She couldn’t understand why her mother suddenly went down a dark and twisty path.  When she was a teenager, she began to start to try and do more research into her mother without letting her father know she was doing so. Eventually she was able to find records that showed her mother went to prison only for two months due to drug related charges.  However, Cassidy could find no records indicating that her mother was dead.
She began to become suspicious of Paul, though she kept quiet about her suspicions. Paul had done very well for himself in the time since Tina had disappeared from their lives; he was now hosting a successful business and he was able to give Cassidy anything she wanted, though he kept emotionally distant the entire time.  It wasn’t difficult, therefore, for Cassidy to start slipping away to do her own investigating.  He never questioned where she was going or what she was doing; this gave Cassidy plenty of time to track down her mother.  After finally getting in contact with Tina, Cassidy was able to learn that her mother had managed to turn a lot of her life around.  When Cassidy and her spoke, Tina was constantly talking about how Tishana had saved her life, but never went into much detail about who Tishana was.
When Cassidy was seventeen, while leaving the house again without Paul’s knowledge to speak with her mother, she finally got to meet Tishana.  Cassidy learned that Tishana was actually a corrections officer at the prison her mother was sent to and that her mother and Tishana had gotten along well while there and Tishana had protected her from the other inmates and guards as she had learned about Cassidy and knew there was good in Tina’s heart.  Tina credited her ability to turn her life around again to Tishana; from what her mother said, Tishana helped her get a job once she was released and ensured there was a roof over her head until Tina could support herself again.  Tishana even tried to help Tina track Cassidy down after the contact had been lost and was pleasantly surprised when Cassidy contacted her herself.
When Cassidy returned home that time, she could no longer hide her emotions from Paul. Paul knew something was different, and he asked her what she had been up to.  Cassidy decided to tell the truth in that she had found her mom and that she had regained contact with her and that she knew that her mother had turned her life around and was in a much better place.  She asked Paul if it was possible to spend a few weeks with her during the summer to reconnect.  Paul was furious; he said that whatever tale Tina had spun was a lie and that whatever “cock and bull” story she said was a fabrication.  He refused to let her go see her mother again and became a lot more strict about not letting Cassidy leave the house.
When Cassidy stopped showing up for visits, and soon after letters and emails also stopped as Paul began to monitor her activity excessively, Tina fell down the dark path again.  Tishana finally figured out a way to reach out to Cassidy, begging Cassidy to reach out to her mother because her mother thought she had pushed Cassidy away. When Cassidy told Tishana that it was actually her father forcing her away, Tishana promised she would relay that information to Tina and that with less than a year left before Cassidy was an adult this would hopefully only be a temporary incident and they could go back to contacting each other soon.
However, when Tina found out that Paul was trying to defame her to Cassidy, she found her way to their home.   She and Paul got into a massive argument, and Cassidy made it home from school that day to find police tapes surrounding her house and the news that her mother was truly dead and that Paul had been taken into custody.  Cassidy was only a few weeks from turning eighteen, so the police told her she could either go to foster care for the next few weeks or find family or friends to take her in.  Cassidy instead opted to live on the streets again.  Tishana tried to reach out to her but she ignored all contact with Tishana as deep down she blamed Tishana for telling her mother about their conversation which led to her going to Paul’s house that day.
Worse still, after surviving on her own, Cassidy learned that Paul had been released from custody with no charges against him.  He was able to continue on with his successful business and Paul offered Cassidy room in their home again and a place of employment for her as an accountant to help pay rent.  Cassidy begrudgingly accepted this; she was resentful he was able to get away with killing her mother but was determined to stick close to him to try and find other ways to take him down.  After all, she’d heard the saying: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
She spent several years working as an accountant for her father until she finally began to notice a trend in the books that there was a consistent supply of money being siphoned out of the business accounts every six months.  She began to investigate deeper into it and after a lot of investigating she finally discovered that the money was going to the Chief of Police of the city they lived in.  Finally putting two and two together, she knew there was nothing she could do to stop her father unless a higher government agency was willing to get involved.  Her father had the police in his pocket and had paid to get out of the charges for murdering her mother.
Moving to Los Santos
Once Cassidy realized about all the corruption that had destroyed her childhood and her life, she finally moved out of her father’s home and began to look for a new purpose in life.  She held onto the accountant job for a while before deciding to leave one day without a word.  She changed her number and began to move off to Los Santos, knowing it was on the other side of the country and unlikely to attract her father’s attention. She petitioned the courts before she left for a legal name change, no longer wanting to hold onto her father’s namesake.  She donned the name Cassidy Clearwater, choosing the last name to reference how her dark thoughts would slip away and the cool tides of change as she started a new life.  Her final act was sending a letter to Tishana telling her that she was leaving for Los Santos, and told her everything she had found out about Paul.  She told her there was no place for her in a place where corruption ran deep to the point where her entire life was in ruins.
Time before Joining DOC
Within the first few days of Cassidy moving to Los Santos, Cassidy had an eventful time that began to shape the path that she would take while living within the city. Very shortly after arriving in the city, she was pulled over by Sam Baas for speeding. Cassidy was quick to admit she was new to the city and had missed the posted speed limit signs; Baas ended up speaking with her and helping her point out different directions she could go to get food and asked her what she wanted to do in the city. At the time Cassidy wasn't sure what she wanted to do in the city; it wouldn't be for a few months later that she would decide to join the Department of Corrections. At the time, Baas was not yet the Chief of Police and Cassidy reflected on the interaction favorably. It was her first interaction with the police in Los Santos and she was hopeful that it meant that Los Santos was far less corrupt than where she came from.
One of the next times she made it into the city, Cassidy met up with several individuals who gave her a tour of the city. This was when she began to hear rumors that there was corrupt cops in the city after Collin McKinley spoke to her at the Alta Street Apartments and told her about cops shooting his friend in the head, shooting people in Sandy Shores instead of processing shores, and information that a Trooper and Judge beating someone in a parking lot. She then met a few people later that day who confirmed they also had heard those rumors as they were giving her a tour throughout the city. To make matters worse, Cassidy witnessed an armed robbery occurring at the apartments that day and tried to call 911 before she was shot down for making the call. Cassidy quickly figured out that no police ever arrived on scene despite her 911 call. This made Cassidy begin to question whether the city was as clean as her first impression implied.
After thinking all of this over, Cassidy made the decision to go apply for the Department of Corrections and follow in Tishana's footsteps. She ended up meeting Wynona Fontaine on July 31st, 2021 and having an (albeit brief) interview with her. Cassidy shortly after applied for the Department of Corrections and then was hired on August 11th, 2021.
Time as a Cadet/Solo Cadet
Cassidy was hired in with the Department of Corrections and attended an academy along with others such as Jack Higgins, Connor Stubble, and Wyatt Jones. Her time as a cadet was very brief within the department, but during that time frame she began to become very close with Diamond Black and Rose Morrison who both were her main FTOs while she was a cadet. Cassidy also first got a taste of bailiff duties within a few days of becoming a cadet when she was able to attend the court case for Irwin Dundee for his human trafficking trial; the court case ended in a mistrial because no one ever searched Dundee and saw that he had a phone on him which led to him witness tampering while at the courthouse. This memory stuck with Cassidy as a reminder of why the SOPs are there and why they need to be followed.
Cassidy was promoted to Solo Cadet a short time later. Sometime during this time frame, Cassidy was kidnapped by Reginald Legarski and one other member of the Blocks, and Cassidy was forced to stab an innocent man while at Dean's World. Cassidy was haunted by this for quite some time, not sure if the man lived or died. After becoming a Solo Cadet she only had a few more shifts before Wynona Fontaine brought Cassidy along with a bunch of lifers out on a beach day trip. Fontaine made many hints that it was a "final eval" before Cassidy would become a full Corrections Officer. The beach trip turned sour, however, when Fontaine's CVPI was stolen and Fontaine blamed Cassidy and the other CO she was with for not watching over the CVPIs. Cassidy did not end up getting promoted to a full CO and a few days later Fontaine spontaneously quit the department which shook the entire prison.
After Fontaine quit, the prison atmosphere turned dark and gloomy for a while. Nobody knew what would happen next. They ended up having the first ever election for a Warden after Fontaine left, and Cassidy ultimately voted for Shawn Richards who she had seen around as a reliable source in her time as a cadet. Jack Frent ended up becoming the Warden with Richards as his Deputy Warden. Two days after they took their positions, they promoted Cassidy to a full Corrections Officer within the department.
Time as Full CO
Upon being promoted to a full Corrections Officer, Cassidy began to struggle. Cassidy was now expected to actually know what she was doing, and it was quickly revealed from her mind that she did not know what she was doing. Not long after being promoted to a full CO, there was a situation that occurred where several members of Chang Gang were sent to the prison and were causing issues. During that incident, Cassidy was trying to get inmates to comply and detain them but failed to call for backup and also failed to realize that Randy Bullet had been uncuffed by another Corrections Officer. While trying to handle another suspect, Cassidy suddenly heard shouting behind her from Randy before turning around and seeing an inmate using a shiv against Randy. Cassidy assisted in detaining the inmate but Randy was incensed, blaming Cassidy for him getting stabbed and claiming she "just stood there". Jack Frent ended up arguing with Randy to try and back Cassidy up, which ultimately led to Randy putting a hit on Frent which would be completed days later when Frent was then kidnapped and tossed off of a crane. Cassidy ultimately blamed herself for what happened to Frent, as she believes that none of it would have happened if not for Cassidy not paying as much attention to what was going on around her and communicating with her fellow Corrections Officers.
Cassidy struggled with confidence after that incident. Other corrections officers and superiors had begun to try and push Cassidy into becoming an FTO, but Cassidy was very resistant. At one point Connor Stubble pulled Cassidy aside to ask why she was so resistant to becoming an FTO and Cassidy referenced the incident with Randy and Frent as the reason she was scared to become an FTO. She admitted that she felt like she hadn't really learned anything as a Cadet and did not feel confident that she could train other Cadets to be competent at their jobs as she felt like she herself wasn't competent. Stubble dropped his usual bravado and gave Cassidy some majorly important life advice: everyone makes mistakes, and to not let this linger and that she was a good CO with a lot of potential ahead of her.
While debating all of this information, Cassidy began to become closer to different people within the department. Most notably, Cassidy grew close with Diamond Black as a close friend and someone she saw as a mother-type figure that she trusted implicitly. She also began to get close with Jack Higgins and began to date him. Cassidy struggled with her confidence still and struggled to open up to others about her past. She was quick to dismiss questions about her life. Eventually, Jack told Cassidy that he loved her and Cassidy realized she could not hide the past any longer. She told him she couldn't return the feelings yet and on the next date they had she took him to her favorite spot by a waterfall to tell him everything about her past. Jack was receptive to her past, which made Cassidy feel more comfortable, to where she was finally able to tell him she loved him back after telling him everything.
Things got more tense within the department a short while later after rumors sprang up that Diamond had been dating an inmate, Easton Travers. Diamond was eventually demoted by the members of command due to those rumors and concerns that she was not doing her job in an effective manner due to how close she had become with multiple inmates. Cassidy ended up learning about the demotion and pulled Diamond aside to talk as a friend; Diamond ended up telling Cassidy that she had to resist hurting the command members when they told her about the demotion. Cassidy was alarmed by this and suddenly saw Diamond in a different light, and turned Diamond into command and alerted them of the threats that had been made. Diamond subsequently was fired by command and upon hearing those news attempted to shoot Connor Stubble, who in turn gunned her down.
Cassidy was shook by what Diamond did and realized she could be a better CO if she put her mind to it, and finally agreed to become a FTO. She began to excel as an FTO, but then a short time after Diamond was fired, Cassidy received a brain injury at work after being beaten down in multiple riots without being checked out. Cassidy lost her memories past the point when she was 16 years old. Cassidy was found by Ethan Maxwell and he unintentionally received bits of information about her past as she struggled to figure out what was going on. Both Ethan and Jack worked to try and help Cassidy get her memories back, but ultimately Cassidy decided to fly out of the city for a bit and went back to her hometown where she found a journal she had written and regained her memories upon reading it.
A short time after coming back to work after regaining her memories, Cassidy was finally promoted to a Senior Corrections Officer.
Time as Snr. CO and Sergeant
Cassidy was promoted to Senior Corrections Officer alongside Jack Higgins. Very quickly, however, Cassidy began to excel. Cassidy began to show stronger interest in the bailiff certification and began taking charge of helping organize the department through different methods. Cassidy also used this time frame to become a fully certified doctor for the department and adopted the secondary call-sign of MD-6. The amount of effort Cassidy was putting in and using while leading situations was quickly noticed by the members of command; including Connor Stubble who had received news he was about to leave for PD and was looking into individuals who could help fill out a command spot when he was about to leave. Ultimately, Cassidy was promoted to Sergeant just two weeks after being promoted to Senior CO, entirely skipping the Corporal rank.
Cassidy continued to excel while Sergeant and went above and beyond the standard call of duty. Stubble went to PD a short while later and the talks began to start for who would become the next Captain in his place. Cassidy was sure the Captain position would go to Rose Morrison knowing that they were not likely to give the position to James McTavish as he was also expected to go to PD within a short time frame; however, Cassidy was surprised and promoted to Captain just two weeks after being promoted to Sergeant.
Time as Captain
Cassidy's time as Captain started with a lot of contention. On the first day after being promoted to Captain, Cassidy was having a meeting with the current Warden, Ethan Maxwell and current Deputy Warden Kai B. Knight when Rose Morrison approached and asked if there was a command meeting on at which point it was commented that it was a "high command meeting". This was how, unfortunately, Rose found out that Cassidy had been made Captain over Rose. It was quickly obvious that Rose was upset about not being picked as Captain and she stormed off; Cassidy immediately realized she might have lost someone as she saw as a friend.
Tension continued to brew throughout Cassidy's time as Captain. Major incidents included Hanna Baker getting kidnapped by Smileys (which greatly impacted Cassidy as she blamed herself because Hanna had asked her to go off duty with her and she declined to stay within the prison, and Hanna was kidnapped just shortly after), Rose being kidnapped by Chang Gang and thrown out of a helicopter into the prison, and more. Cassidy was also shook by the loss of Kees van Zant, who Cassidy had been close with before he went on an extended LOA and had been overjoyed by his return just the day prior to his passing. She also ended up breaking up with Jack Higgins after he said that if what happened to Hanna happened to Cassidy he would opt more for street justice (something that bothered Cassidy greatly) and Cassidy felt alone as Jack had not been around during any of the major events and she felt like she had no support system with him anymore. Shortly after Hanna admitted she had feelings for Cassidy, who felt pressured by both lifers and DOC to say she had feelings back. Cassidy ended up turning Hanna down, but Hanna also hyper-fixated on Cassidy which led to far more tension between the two and people in the prison all trying to give their two cents on the relationship.
Things began to hit a head when, after ending the chance of a relationship, Hanna was shot by Lang Buddha while inside the prison cafeteria, however the gun was not found. This led to a situation where they needed to find the gun. Cassidy was still experiencing a lot of tension with Rose, especially after a disagreement at a cadet academy was blamed on Cassidy when the academy was then set on fire with a Molotov, and so Cassidy let Rose handle the situation and told her she would back her decision. Rose made the decision to flip all of the lifers bunks who were awake during that time frame to try and find the gun; this created a lot of tension with the lifers. Thankfully, the gun was found quickly in Lennon Lee's bunk, and the rest of the lifers were not flipped. However, many of the lifers were not happy with this result. 
A few days later, while Cassidy was outside of the prison, she received a call from James McTavish indicating she needed to get back to the prison as soon as possible and that they needed to contact Ethan immediately. Cassidy asked what was happening and McTavish indicated that he was outside the prison off duty but was hearing gunshots being fired and lifers were telling him that it was happening due to shoes being thrown at both Rose and Kai. Cassidy ended up heading back to the prison and making it there just as Ethan arrived on duty; they confronted the pair together and found out that what McTavish reported was true. Ethan made the final call after thinking things over and gave Kai strike points and a suspension, but because Rose was at a point where she could get fired with more strike points Ethan gave her the opportunity to try and show remorse for what had happened. Instead, Rose doubled down and insisted she would have done it again, so Ethan chose to fire her.
Cassidy faced a lot of internal upset and regret over what had occurred. Cassidy felt like she had lost a friend that she had for months and didn't understand where things went wrong. What was worse, one of the lifers told Cassidy that Rose had indirectly tried to put a hit on Cassidy. Within a day or two of the incident, Cassidy, Ethan, and other COs were all set on fire by Lucas "Loops" Lee in rage over the incident where the lifers were shot for throwing shoes. Cassidy began to sincerely question whether she was doing a good job as Captain and began to have sincere doubts within the department, especially after seeing several COs quit.
After some time, Cassidy got a chance of a distraction after hearing that some sort of infection was spreading around the prison. Cassidy dug in to try and solve the case, especially after finding out that Ethan might be one of the people infected. Cassidy quickly noted that the infection seemed to be impacting people's moods and attitudes, as well as making them feel no pain. Cassidy was deep in trying to investigate it when she became infected herself after treating Lori Undergrove, who was infected at the time. Cassidy began to be a lot more aggressive than she used to be, but what was more was that during the time frame of her infection she began to realize she was developing feelings for Meddroid. Cassidy was only infected for a few days before Ethan found the cure for the infection and then hoodwinked Cassidy into getting cured from the infection herself.
When coming down from the infection and beginning to reflect on the days where she had been infected, Cassidy suddenly had a panic attack once she really reflected on the feelings she had for Med and realized that the infection thoughts that made her aggressive were all "cloudy" in her mind... but that the feelings for Med were still very much clear and present. Oliver Crawford was beside Cassidy when this panic attack occurred and she unintentionally told Crawford about it, which made her panic more because she feared she would lose her job if he told anyone.
In the end, Cassidy and Crawford began to have a very tense relationship. Crawford told Cassidy that he saw her above the prison and that he wouldn't tell anyone but that he would try and stop her. Cassidy waffled with what to do while still having feelings but ultimately decided to tell Med that she had feelings for him. This shocked Med and over the coming days he tried to convince Cassidy that they could never work as a couple as she would risk her job by doing so. Crawford also kept convince Cassidy to end things and said that her and Med were not being subtle. Ultimately, after Med pulled Cassidy into Cellblock 6 to really try and convince Cassidy to not risk her job for him, Cassidy suddenly passed out. Cassidy had a subdural hematoma that had been bleeding since being cleared from the infection when Ethan hit her with a flashlight to knock her out so the treatment could be done.
Cassidy ended up forgetting the conversations between Med and Crawford the day of the collapse, but when she woke up from the hospital she confessed to Ethan what was going on. Ethan surprised her by saying that as long as she remained free of corruption and kept doing her job as expected, which he trusted her to do, he had no issues with whatever she wanted to do. Unfortunately, damage had already been done and rumors were flying within the prison that Med and Cassidy were together (despite them not being official) and that Cassidy was corrupt. This began to greatly upset Cassidy. She eventually confronted Crawford after Kai came to Cassidy and said that he had found out about Med and Cassidy after a CO had come to him with concerns about a guard dating an inmate, and found out that Crawford had been that whistleblower. She ended her friendship with Crawford and tried to pick up the pieces to keep her job.
Cassidy reflected on all of this and then ultimately spoke with Med once again. In that conversation, they talked about what would happen if they had to face each other in a riot and the ultimate thought was that they would not want to do it but they knew they would if it came down to it. Med agreed to try a relationship with Cassidy, and began to call her his "Shadow Old Lady" for The Militia.
Death
Meddroid and Cassidy ultimately decided to try and keep distance from each other to try and dispel some of the rumors that were flying about and to try and help protect Cassidy's job from the claims of corruption that were spreading around the prison. However, they would take whatever chances they could to be together in secret. Cassidy ended up getting taken hostage by The Pack, and when Cassidy and Med met the next day Med was extremely concerned that Cassidy could have died. He refused to believe that she was physically unharmed until he himself examined her and made sure she was okay. Cassidy and Med got a rare chance to spend multiple hours together alone, as no other COs were on duty and no other Lifers were awake. Cassidy and Med firmed up their relationship during that time and realized how close they had become. Later that day, Cassidy found out from Winifred Doe that rumors had started to spread in the yard that Cassidy had received a PD application. Cassidy realized that she had to tell Med that she had applied before anyone else told him as it would be worse if he found out from someone else. Cassidy ended up notifying both Ethan Maxwell and Eryn Carter that she was planning to tell Med about applying to PD, as they were the two people who both knew she had applied and that she was actively dating Med.
The next day, Med asked a trusted lifer who knew that Cassidy and Med were actually together if they could help him set up a "date" for him and Cassidy. That lifer supplied Med with two sets of Spaghetti, Sinamon Rolls, and Sparkling Clearwater. Unknown to both Med and Cassidy, that food was poisoned by the lifer.
Med eventually called Cassidy while she was speaking with Oliver Crawford and asked her to meet him in Cellblock 6. Cassidy told him she'd be there after finishing the conversation with Crawford; Crawford was once again trying to convince Cassidy to end the relationship but Cassidy flat out told Crawford that "you can't help who you love" and that her and Med had already come to the realization that they "may have to shoot each other some day". After finishing the conversation, Cassidy went to prep for meeting Med in Cellblock 6. After much deliberation, Cassidy decided to pull her PD Glock out of her locker and bring it with her to the meeting. On her way to Cellblock 6, Crawford stopped Cassidy again and insisted she not go anywhere alone but she shrugged him off. Jeremy Phillips also stopped her on the way to the Cellblock to ask if she knew where Med was, to which she lied and said she had no idea.
Cassidy then met Med within Cellblock 6. Med and her met in the corner away from outside view and Med gave Cassidy the meal that he had been provided by the other lifer. Cassidy and Med ate the food and drink provided; however, Cassidy suddenly noticed that there was a guard moving towards Cellblock 6. Cassidy moved to the other end of the Cellblock towards the projector room and watched as Crawford began to sneak into the Cellblock. Crawford eventually found Cassidy in the projector room after Jeremy also ran in and tried to warn Cassidy that Crawford was sneaking about. Cassidy told Crawford that she was fine and was just relaxing in there; Crawford reluctantly left the Cellblock.
After confirming the Cellblock was clear, Cassidy rejoined Med. She finally decided to tell him that she had applied for PD. Med was incredibly upset as she expected, and they argued, especially because Cassidy admitted she had applied prior to becoming official with him and confirmed that she lied to him about why she was wearing a proper Command uniform days prior to them getting together. The argument continued until Med told Cassidy that if she went that path she would be treated just like every other PD member by him. Cassidy realized that things were going terribly so she began to walk away from the argument. A brief moment later she heard the sound of shattering glass and Med ran in front of her. She pulled out her gun in a panic and shot Med twice in the head. Before he died, however, he lunged at her and snapped her neck cleanly.
It was later discovered in both of their toxicology reports that they were poisoned. Both Med and Cassidy had been poisoned by the meal given to them by Winifred Doe. The poison was said to cause hallucinations and may have been a major factor in why Cassidy shot Med, and Med killing her in turn.
*After Cassidy Clearwater's death on March 6, 2022, the call sign 703 was officially retired by the Department of Corrections in her honor.
*There was a memorial service held on March 8, 2022 where a large group from DOC, PD, civilians, and lifers all came to pay their respects.
*There was a push to rename the Los Santos Humane Society to the Clearwater Memorial Humane Society in her honor after her death.
==Relationships==
===Jack Higgins===
Jack was one of the first people Cassidy truly got close to in the city. Jack was the first person who heard the full story about Cassidy's past and the real reason why she joined the Department of Corrections. They dated from October 2021 until January 2022; Cassidy ultimately broke up with him due to her heavily disagreeing with Jack's views on justice as well as their communication and relationship began to falter after Cassidy was promoted higher in the ranks than Jack within the DOC. They said they could still be friends but it's still awkward between the two.
===Eryn Carter===
Cassidy met Eryn through the work in the Department of Corrections. Eryn and Cassidy share a close friendship; Cassidy considers Eryn to be her best friend and the person she trusts the most - even with some of Cassidy's deepest secrets. Cassidy and Eryn's friendship grew even more after Eryn was hospitalized following a bad riot at the prison; Cassidy went out of her way to be there for Eryn and visit Eryn as much as possible in the hospital to be there for her. Eryn even told Cassidy that when she first woke up in the ICU she was calling out for Cassidy as the one person she trusted and knew would be there for her.
===Hanna Baker===
Hanna and Cassidy met when Hanna was hired to the Department of Corrections as a cadet. Hanna and Cassidy began to talk and hang out with each other a lot more after Hanna was attacked by the serial killer group known as the Smileys; Cassidy began to feel a friendship for Hanna at that point. Eventually, however, their friendship began to deteriorate after Hanna began to pressure Cassidy into a more than friends relationship and Hanna continued to get too close to other serial killers. Despite this, Cassidy still cares a great deal about Hanna and demanded that Hanna put Cassidy on her emergency contact's list in case anything were to go wrong while she was out there in the world because she "didn't want to find out she was dead from a newspaper".
===Oliver Crawford===
Cassidy and Crawford have an on again off again friendship. They began to become close when Cassidy was a Senior Corrections Officer but things began to become rocky after Crawford made several major mistakes that put his career on the line, which in turn caused Crawford to get clingy to the only person he gained any hope and encouragement from - Cassidy. Cassidy began to detest this clingy attitude and it has fractured their friendship, along with Cassidy regretting spilling a secret to him as she cannot shake the feeling that he does not trust her. On March 3 2022 after finding out that Crawford had betrayed Cassidy's trust by breaking a promise to not tell others about a secret she had shared with him and finding out that he had feelings for her that she did not reciprocate, Cassidy told Crawford that they were no longer friends.
===Meddroid===
Meddroid was one of the lifers at Bolingbroke that Cassidy had gotten closest to during her time as an officer for the Department of Corrections. Cassidy and Med had a close bond, far closer than was normal for an inmate and a CO. Their relationship developed beyond just a friendship after Cassidy was infected with a fungal infection that compromised her normal decision making skills; despite that, the feelings never went away and Cassidy began to pursue a relationship with him. After much back and forth they finally agreed to get in a relationship even though they knew it may lead to tragedy and heartbreak due to their differing lives. Ultimately, before they killed each other, they loved each other deeply and shared a bond no one else could really understand.
===Ethan Maxwell===
Cassidy and Ethan started to become friends as they began working together. Ethan was the first person to encourage Cassidy that she was doing good work in the department and that he saw the potential to succeed. They also hung out off duty multiple times and began to become friends. Their friendship only developed further once their relationship in the department turned into Captain for Cassidy with Ethan being the Warden. Cassidy eventually saw Ethan as one of her best friends and who she could have trusted with her life and she couldn't wait to go to PD with Ethan and go through their training together.
===James McTavish===
McTavish and Cassidy met when he was hired for the Department of Corrections. McTavish quickly grew to respect Cassidy as an individual and supported her and encouraged her to succeed within the department. McTavish was the famed creator of the special "cowboy hat" group and gave a hat to Cassidy first, having deemed her worthy of wearing it. Their relationship was built upon a lot of trust and Cassidy saw him as a brother that she would give her life for if needed. Much like Ethan, Cassidy could not wait to be in PD with McTavish and train together again.
===Diamond Black===
Diamond and Cassidy met with Diamond being the main FTO who trained Cassidy during her cadet phases with the Department of Corrections. They then became friends upon realizing they had a very similar approach and mindset and Diamond began to see Cassidy as someone she could trust. Their friendship was destroyed when after Diamond was demoted due to allegations of her sleeping with an inmate impacting her judgment, Diamond confessed to Cassidy that she had to restrain herself from attacking the members of command when they demoted her. Cassidy ultimately became a whistleblower and alerted command to the discussion, which resulted in Diamond getting fired and Diamond attempting to shoot members of command on her way out the door. Cassidy and Diamond have had a strained relationship since then and Cassidy still does not know if Diamond knows that she was the reason that Diamond got fired.
==Career with Department of Corrections==
Rank 	Insignia	Note 	Date
Corrections Cadet 	 	Hired; Call Sign #789 	August 11th, 2021
Corrections Solo Cadet 	 	Promoted to Solo Cadet 	August 28th, 2021
Corrections Officer 	 	Promoted to Corrections Officer 	October 4th, 2021
Senior Corrections Officer	 	Promoted to Senior Corrections Officer 	December 13th, 2021
Corrections Sergeant 	 	Promoted to Sergeant 	December 30th, 2021
Corrections Captain 	 	Promoted to Captain, Call Sign changed to #703	January 14th, 2022
Corrections Captain 	 	Killed in Action. 	March 6, 2022
Certification	Legend	Insignia	Rank 	Note
Bailiff 	 	 	Corrections Officer 	Approved into the Bailiff cert.
Medical 	 	 	Senior Corrections Officer	Approved as Doctor for the medical team.
FTO 	 	 	Senior Corrections Officer	Assigned as Field Training Officer.
FTI 	 	 	Sergeant 	Assigned as Field Training Instructor.
BRU 	 	 	Sergeant 	Approved into the BRU.
Bailiff 	 	 	Sergeant 	Assigned as Chief of Courthouse Operations.
BIU 	 	 	Captain 	Approved as investigator in the BIU.
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==Gallery==
File:Cassidyclearwatercadet.png|Cadet Cassidy Clearwater - First Day as Cadet
File:Cassidy-PostIt.png|Cassidy Final Post it At House
File:Cassidy-PostItMemorial.png|Cassidy Memorial Post Its at House
File:Cassidy and Jack Date.png|Cassidy & Jack Higgins Date where Cassidy told him about her past
File:Cassidy Clearwater and Diamond.png|The last time Cassidy and Diamond spoke before Diamond was fired
File:Cassidy-Memorial.png|Cassidy Memorial
File:Cassidy-Med3.jpg|Cassidy and Med
File:Cassidy-Med4.jpg|Med checking over Cassidy after hostage situation to ensure she had no injuries and wasn't lying to him
File:Cassidy-Lifers2.jpg|Cassidy with lifers
File:Cassidy-Hanna2.jpg|Cassidy telling Hanna she isn't sure she wants a relationship
File:Cassidy-Crawford.jpg|The beginning of the end of Cassidy and Crawford's friendship
File:Cassidy-Med2.jpg|Cassidy and Med when Cassidy was trying to explain she liked him (and failed)
File:Cassidy-WorldEnd.jpg|Cassidy, Med, and Winnie at the end of the world
File:Cassidy-Kees-Lori.png|Cassidy, Lori, and Kees before he died
File:Cassidy-Death.jpg|Cassidy and Med Death