#agent locke

FIRST THIS:

if lia was white i doubt any of u would hate her this much. so much of lia hate is just really badly masked racism & misogyny (trust me we can tell). i guarantee if lia was a white girl/boy she would be labeled as an icon. she’s the only poc girl in the group & somehow shes still the most hated…… meanwhile michael is the same as her (that’s literally their whole schtick, that they’re too alike) and i don’t see him get HALF of the hate lia does. i wonder why…. it’s probably because most of yall who hate lia r male centered racist misogynistic pieces of shit. it’s fine to not like lia as long as u don’t like michael either because that just shows ur hypocrisy u bird brained FOOLS!!! idc what excuse u try to come up with i see it for what it truly is. u guys r all about supporting women until that women isn’t white, doesn’t keep quiet / lets ppl walk all over her & has flaws. BECAUSE GOD FORBID a character that’s a woc isn’t just a side character there to support the white fmc & is tossed off to the side. maybe instead of posting hate on lia try working on ur reading comprehension & ur internalised racism & misogyny, thanks!

NOW CLEARING THIS UP:

“she told cassie to suck it up 😿😿” wow shrink your amygdala and grow your brain. are u so completely unable to read past the surface??? can you comprehend anything at all??? like genuinely even a 5th grader could get this. because cassie ends up spelling it out for u in the damn page: 3 people were going thru it, cassie michael & sloane. LIA COULDNT TELL MICHAEL TO SUCK IT UP BECAUSE BRO WOULDNT HAVE LISTENED ??? do u guys know michael’s character even a little bit?? HE DOESNT LIKE HEING TOLD WHAT TO DO especially when his emotions r this heightened. he came back after meeting with his father who beat his ass bro (lia literally said he was one bad decision away from eloping with a showgirl. do u guys really think that he was in the right headspace to listen to to lia??? fuck out my faceee😭😭😭) she also couldn’t tell sloane because sloane would’ve been CRUSHED, sloane isn’t really able understand many peoples actions, she would have thought that lia was genuinely dismissing her. she told cassie because she knew cassie would’ve been the most equipt to handle it (even cassie thought so). cassie said lia had said those words for a reason and said this, & i quote “You’re not cruel. Not like that.” and about the way she said it and her phrasing like omgggg yall want her to sugar coat shit sooo bad like omg grow tf up and stop being a whiny bitchass baby she was saying it how it is ppl were literally dying and time was ticking actually shut up. lia said she gets that this is hard for her and she gets that cassie has every right to deal with it but IN HER OWN WAY AND TIME. no one there at the current moment had the emotional bandwidth to deal with cassie’s situation. she also literally warned cassie before hand that she likes her and doesn’t hate her so what she said wasn’t coming from a place of malice. also cassie didn’t even take it this personally LMFAO. she understood ! also did u guys conveniently forget when lia told her it was her turn? when michael was finally in the right headspace she told him to put his big boy pants on because it was cassie’s turn. it wasn’t an orchestrated attack against cassie. plus cassie is a team player, she hates breaking down when she needs to solve shit so lia giving her a way to focus on michael and sloane was to give her time and so in the end her breakdown is not all of a sudden. they were at issue capacity. they had cases to solve. ppl should be thanking lia instead because she was actually the one who took initiative and starting setting things in order so it wouldn’t have gotten out of hand. too many emotions running wild during such an important case would have been BAD!!! do i need to explain why it would have been bad too?? or can u grasp that by urself 😹

now here are parts in the book that disprove her “mean girl/bully” reputation:

start of the book lia told cassie the truth abt the old ppl hung on the wall because she didn’t want cassie finding out on her own like she did because it could scare cassie a lot finding this out all on her own, lia didn’t like being lied to about it so she made sure cassie didn’t have to go thru that either (BECASUE SHE CARES! even tho just JUST met cassie)

lia giving cassie the run down of everything (this is so cute im 😭)

was the FIRST to ask cassie if she was okay (with a whole emotion reader & profiler in the room, LIA was the first to ask)

noticed cassie was uncomfortable and cut the convo short (she’s so in tune with cassie’s emotions bro 🥹🫰🫰)

brushed cassies hair while cassie was crying and made her laugh #cassieliacanon

cares abt dean so much like das her brudda 😿😿

hugged & comforted sloane even tho she says she isn’t a hugger & doesn’t like showing vulnerability but knows sloane needed her

THE emotion reader literally said she’s more vulnerable than she lets on

comforted cassie and opened up about her own cult experience to help with cassie’s own cult related problems after sloane told lia cassie is down

still helped & cared abt michael even after allat shit he put her thru

cried and smashed things when cassie went missing + felt like someone put her in a hole (the hole being the place they used to lock her in as a child (like 6+) for days. an underground pit where she was left alone for days as punishment for refusing to submit or repent the way they wanted)

like against all odds this girl got super attached to cassie (and michael) in only a span of a few months. YES even after her situationship and brother and sloane. obviously watching everyone drift toward the new girl is gonna make ANYBODY feel some typa way. it made her feel replaced. she’s seventeen and doesn’t really know how to handle losing people like that like GOD FORBID A GIRL ACTS HER AGE

anyway cassielia canon cassielia outsold and cassie (& the rest of the naturals) would smack u right side up for talking abt lia that way ok 🥹🥹🫰🫰💖

Their favourite type of dates are driving dates

They’d sneak out at dusk and just drive aimlessly around

Micheal always insists on a grocery run where they buy so much sweet to go in sugar rush

He loves to see Cassie’s face lighten up with all sorts of emotions

Micheal walks around the house 85% of the time shirtless because he knows the effect it has on her

“Oh? Colorado, you are blushing a little there…” said with the most smug expression

She once baked caramel cookies for him because he told her his mother used to bake them for him

He cried and hugged her so tight

Micheal never truly opened up about his family situation, he’s scared Cassie might see him for what he truly is: a victim of his father’s range

But she secretly knows scrapes she’s put together while profiling him

So, when he comes back after a trip home with bruises hidden on his body, it’s her mission to make him feel better

She’d undress him slowly and trace the outline of each ugly bruise with her lips

He’d rank his fingers in her hair and sigh softly

They’re the only rare time when he allows himself to show his true emotions

Micheal can read people well, but he reads Cassie the best

He knows every wrinkle, every little shift in her expression that give away her true feelings

Cassie, one late night when they were eating Lia’s ice cream, she confessed her secret connection with Locke

She thought he would find her repulsing, he was literally the one who pulled the trigger, but he just wrapped his arms around her and held her

He is clearly more experienced than her, in many ways, but they go at her own pace

Micheal always leans in slowly when he wants to kiss her, giving her time to pull away

Most of the time she never does and they end up having long ass make out session, where they forget everyone around

However, on the rare occasions when she says no, he always respects her.

He would raise his hands in surrender and give her a smile to die for

He lost it once. Really lost it. It was one time when for a case, Cassie was almost killed (again).

It was worst because the killer had also kidnapped Sloane, and we all know he has a sweet spot for her

As soon as they found them and Briggs handcuffed him, Micheal punched him. Hard.

He was unrecognisable after he was done.

Cassie rushed over to him, because she knew he would never hurt her, and gently pried his bloodied knuckles away.

She whispered soft words to him, to mark him come back

Micheal was repulsed by himself, but Cassie didn’t blame him. He just held his hand as they reached home and helped him tend to his wounds.

He held her tightly that night, his lips against the crown of her head

Micheal promised her the world, and he keeps it by taking her int helicopter expedition

She points at a random place on the map and they try to reach it

So far they’ve been to London, Los Angeles and Madrid.

They take a polaroid picture of them kissing in the most famous place of the city and Cassie keeps the collection hung on her wardrobe

Cassie once brought Micheal over to her house for Easter and her nonna cooked so much

She wanted him to gain weight so she fed her Polenta and Brasato (i don’t think she’s from northern italy but that’s what my grandma would do)

Her uncle teased them so much

Cassie was ashamed but Micheal had fun the whole evening, he was glad she let him be part of her family, since his house was usually too quiet

Oh, but he was her family. Her boyfriend. Her first friend.