Cassie Hobbes

Cassandra (Cassie) Hobbes is very good at reading people. Her talent for profiling lands her and spot in the elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother's murder and facing another life-threatening situation with Daniel Redding's apprentice, as well as dealing with a dangerous cult, Cassie continues to want to work on active cases.

## **Background**

Cassie's mother is Lorelai Hobbes. Cassie used to travel all around the country with her mother who was a "psychic". When Cassie was twelve, her mother went missing, presumed dead, 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 for a large portion of her life and not having a lot of social interaction with kids that have mastered controlling all of their feelings.

## **Talents**

### ***Profiling***

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 the mindset of the Killer and Victim.

## **Books**

The Naturals Cassie becomes a profiler and joins the Naturals program, all seems fine at first, but things become worrying after they find out a serial killer murdering woman all around the US is on the loose.

Killer Instinct A serial killer is copying Dean's dad, and Cassie and her friends have to figure out who it is and stop them. During that, Cassie also has to figure out her feelings and chose between Dean and Micheal.

All In Cassie's mother's body is believed to be found. Cassie takes this very hard & wants to take down the person who killed her mother. While worrying about her mother's body, Cassie also has to solve a series of mysterious murders happening in LA, which is harder than it seems, as the victims and killing methods vary with every kill.

Bad Blood, Cassie discovers that Lorelai was forced to join a cult against her will and became the Pythia. Cassie faces many challenges and learns many things she never knew before.

Twelve, a few years have passed, and Cassie is now in charge of the Naturals program. She spends most of her time searching for teenagers to join the program. In the midst of her search she is forced to stop and deal with a situation. Mackenzie McBride, who they had saved from a kidnapping years prior, is on top of a lighthouse, threatening to jump if people don't start to listen to what she has to say.

## **Relationships**

### Lorelai Hobbes

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.

Dean Redding

Cassie and Dean have a special connection. They always work together seamlessly in cases because of how well they understand and use their profiling abilities. 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. Dean is an amazing boyfriend to Cassie and is always there for her when she needs him.

They are still dating in *Twelve*.

#### Michael Townsend

At the beginning, Cassie couldn't choose between Michael and Dean. However, in the second book, she chooses 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. They work well together regardless of her love choices.

### Lia Zhang

> "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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Lia and Cassie's personalities are very different and sometimes they don't get along. Lia feels threatened by Michael's attachment to Cassie, while Cassie is threatened by Lia's demeanor and snark. Even though she views Dean as a brother, it's hard for her to accept him relying on Cassie instead of her. Their friendship starts off rather rocky, but with time they start to have a better understanding of each other, and after spending months together the become great friends, though they bicker a lot.

#### Sloane Tavish

Sloane is better with numbers and statistics than people. She knows this for a fact, and states that she "says and does the wrong thing 86.5% of the time". However, she still strongly cares for Cassie and everyone else in the Naturals program. Sloane and Cassie are roommates and Sloane is shown to be a neat freak which infinitely amuses Cassie. Though they generally don't talk much, Sloane and Cassie love each other like sisters and are always there for each other.

#### Agent Briggs

The agent who recruited Cassie and sent Michael to invite Cassie. She's suspicious of him at first, and suggests they meet in his office, figuring that it wouldn't be possible if he truly didn't work for the FBI. Eventually, they warm up to each other even though at the start, Briggs usually got angry whenever the Naturals broke the rules, he tends to act like a father figure to the naturals. In the fourth book, *Bad Blood*, he was promoted to Director Briggs after the original director, Director Sterling, is killed as a result of being a member of a cult which took Cassie's mother Lorelai Hobbes and for threatening the life of four year old Laurel Hobbes.

#### Agent Lacey Locke

Agent Lacey Locke is a profiler. Lacey was Cassie's first mentor, but it turned out she was also a serial killer who killed people in Lorelai's (Cassie's mom's) image. Lacey was trying to hunt down and kill the murderer who killed Lorelai, having wanted to kill her herself. She's wanted to kill Lorelai because Lorelai had left her with their abusive father after she got pregnant with Cassie. Lacey wanted Cassie join her in her horrible deeds, but Cassie, horrified at the thought, refused and distracted her so Michael shoot down Lacey Locke in the nick of time. Cassie has mixed feelings about her, because even though she was a serial killer, Lacey was still her aunt and so Cassie loves her in spite of her hatred for the serial killer she was.

#### Agent Sterling

Agent Veronica (Ronnie) Sterling. Cassie doesn't like her at all at first, but warms up to her and eventually understands her decisions after Sterling explains the reasoning behind them during their time as Webber's captives. Agent Sterling cares about Cassie and the other Naturals and tries to take them out of harm's way. She's Director Sterling's daughter, he was the previous director of the FBI, until *Twelve*, when Briggs is appointed the new director after Director Sterling is killed as a result of being a member in the cult that took Cassie's mother and for threatening the life of four year old Laurel Hobbes.

#### Judd

Judd Hawkins is the caretaker of the teenagers in the Naturals program. He is very protective of all of them. In the second book, *Killer's Instinct*, Judd became the final word to allow the Naturals on an active case.

**Vincent Battaglia**

Cassie's father, Vincent Battaglia, lives overseas as a marine. He was transferred overseas fourteen months after becoming Cassie's legal guardian. Cassie stayed with her fathers family. They are not very close.

#### Laurel Hobbes

Cassie's half-sister whom she feels very protective over, especially now that her mother is gone. She was born from Lorelai, Cassie's mother, shortly after Lorelai became the Pythia. Laurel's "fathers" are the seven masters from the cult that took Cassie's mother, Lorelai. Laurel lived in the cults clutches for most of her life, destined to grow into their leader called Nine. When Cassie was kidnapped and refused to fight her mother, Director Sterling uses Laurel as leverage and threatens to kill her should the two continually refuse to fight. Cassie is forced to kill her mother, on her mother's orders. Laurel moves in with Cassie's father's family in Colorado at the end of book four, but at the end of book five she moves in to the house at Quantico in order to live with Cassie, Lia, and soon the new additions to the Naturals program.

#### Nonna

Cassie's Italian grandmother, and Vincent's mom. She took care of Cassie after her mom was supposedly murdered. Nonna constantly fusses over Cassie (and the whole family) 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.

**Celine Delacroix**

In the fourth book, *Bad Blood,* the Naturals meet Celine through investigating her own staged missing case*.* Celine gets well along with the Naturals, and over the span of *Bad Blood,* Celine and Cassie become good friends.