Cassie Hobbes

* Agent Sterling (sister, maternal, Lorelai Hobbes daughter, sister to Cassie (Cassandra) Hobbes and Laurel Hobbes)

## Appearances

### Last seen

Twelve

**Cassandra "Cassie" Hobbes** is the main protagonist and narrator of *The Naturals*, Killer Instinct, *All In* and *Bad Blood,*as well as the novella *Twelve*. Her *natural* talent to be able to profile people lands her a spot in the elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cassie grew up traveling all around the country with her mother, Lorelai Hobbes, self-proclaimed "psychic". However, Cassie believes her mother was a mentalist, not a psychic. Lorelai taught her all tricks of the trade in profiling such as things like behavior, personality and environment. AKA The key to putting one's entire life into a box.

When Cassie was twelve, her mother went missing, and was presumed dead by the FBI as to the amount of blood left at the scene of the crime. Her father Vincent Battaglia gained permanent custody of Cassie and she was sent to live with her paternal (and very Italian) family. Her father is in the military and never played a major role in her life. She is from Colorado U.S.A.

## **Personality**

Cassie is described as better at feeling empathy than the other Naturals. As a Profiler, she can't help but try and figure people out. Overall she appears to be a caring person and wants to do the right thing in situations that are dire and even those that will make others happy. Cassie can be insecure and almost awkward at times due to having been surrounded by adults more a large portion of her life and not having a lot of social interaction with kids that have mastered controlling all of their feelings.

## **Natural Skill**

### **Profiler**

A natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, a profiler can tell you who you are and what you want.

Cassie profiles through BPEs, or behavior, personality, and environment, which was the "trick of her mother's trade". She also profiles by using the word 'You' to get into mindset of the Killer and Victim.

## **Relationships**

### Lorelai

Cassie's mother, Lorelai Hobbes. Cassie was very close with her and lived with her for most of her childhood years, until one fateful night when she found her mother's dressing room covered in blood. Her mother taught her how to get inside other people's heads and profile them through BPEs. In book four, Cassie discovers that Lorelai was forced to join a cult against her will and became the Pythia. The Seven Masters force Cassie to either kill her mom or be killed by her. Instead Lorelai tells Cassie she loves her and forces Cassie to kill her.

### Vincent

Cassie's father, Vincent Battaglia, lives overseas. He's apart of the military & was transferred overseas fourteen months after becoming Cassie's legal guardian. Cassie, not being very close to him, chose to stay with her father's family.

### Laurel

Cassie's half-sister whom she feels very protective over especially now that her mother is gone.

### Nonna

Cassie's Italian grandmother. Vincent's mom. Nonna took care of Cassie after her mom was supposedly murdered. Nonna constantly fusses over Cassie and cares about her deeply. At the end of book four, Cassie trusts Nonna to give Laurel the most normal and happy childhood that she can possibly have.

### Dean

Cassie's love interest. Dean kept her at arms length at first, and didn't want to let himself care about her, though he later admits he loves her and they begin dating in the second book. Dean is an amazing boyfriend to Cassie and is always there for her when she needs him.They have a special connection. In the first book, Dean spots the connections between her mother's case and the string of murders that are taking place. They always work together seamlessly on cases because of how well they understand and use their profiling abilities.

### Michael

At the beginning she couldn't choose between Michael and Dean and late, in the second book, she choose Dean. Although being initially mad at her and pretending not to care about her for a few months, Michael moves on and remains good friends with Cassie.

### Lia

Due to her on and off relationship with Michael and loving Dean like a brother, her friendship with Cassie is strained. Eventually they are able to overcome that and become friends.

> "I doubt anyones as happy as Cassie at this exact moment." -*Lia to Cassie after Cassie had hugged both Michael and Dean after solving the Mackenzie McBride case.*
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Cassie and Lia have a rocky friendship with time they come to understand each other better.

### Sloane

Sloane is better with numbers and statistics than people. Sloane knows this for a fact, and that she says the wrong thing most of the time. However, she still strongly cares for Cassie and everyone else in the Naturals program. The Naturals were the only people to really except who she was. Sloane and Cassie share a room and Sloane is shown to be a neat freak which infinitely amuses Cassie. Though they don't talk much in general, Sloane and Cassie love each other like sisters and they're always there for each other.

Agent Briggs
The agent who recruited Cassie and sent Michael to invite Cassie. His name is Tanner. Agent Briggs is also Agent Sterling's ex-husband. In one of the books of the Naturals series, 'Bad Blood', Agent Sterling killed her father, Director Sterling, in an attempt to save Cassie from a mysterious cult, which ended successfully. Agent Briggs then earned the title 'Director Briggs'.

### Agent Locke

Lacey also known as Agent Locke, is a profiler. She was Lorelei's sister, Lacey and Cassie's aunt, but Cassie never knew about her until the end of book one. She is Cassie's first mentor, but it turned out she was a psycho killer who wanted to find Lorelai's killer because she wanted to kill Lorelai herself. She wanted to kill Lorelai because when they were younger, Lorelei left her alone with her abusive dad after having Cassie. Cassie has mixed feelings about her, because even though she was a serial killler, Lacey was still her family member. Lacey hoped to have Cassie accept her and murder people with her, but Cassie ultimately refused.

### Agent Sterling

Veronica, aka Agent Briggs's ex-wife and daughter of Director Sterling. Cassie doesn't like her much at first but over time begins to understand her decisions and becomes friendly towards her. Agent Sterling cares about Cassie and tries to protect her from harm's way. Laurel is also Agent Sterling's half sister (both have the same father).