Caroline Layton (The Substitute Timeline)

*Adoptive*:

* Florence Layton
* Marshall Layton

*Adoptive*:

* Ben Layton

**Ancestors**:*Claudia's*:

* Clarissa Sapienti & Alexander Theophilus (great-grandparents through Cat)
* Marie-Simone Donovan (great-grandmother through John)

**Caroline Orville Layton** is the adoptive daughter and the third child of Marshall and Florence Layton. She was born as **Claire Olivia Jinks**, but ever since Carrie was six, she doesn't have any memories of it.

## Carrie's Story

### Early Life (2015-2020)

Claire used to be an ordinary kid when she was younger. She was born in the family of two Warehouse 13 agents, who also happened to be the current Caretaker and Special Agent in Charge.

The girl was always surrounded by love and care from her relatives and friends, and even when her younger sister, Cordelia, was born, this didn't really change. Clary took her job as a big sister with great responsibility, and over the years it affected the girls so that their sisterly bond became stronger than anyone could imagine.

### Power Awakening (2020)

Claire was only five when she began to hear strange voices in her head. It all started in the warehouse, so she, being an experienced kid, blamed some artifacts on this. But the girl came home again and again, went to some classes, and the voices never left her.

Clary felt terribly scared and even terrified. The worst thing was that she couldn't share her fears with anyone, because the girl was completely sure that her mom and dad would get angry and isolate her as some sort of a criminal, just like it happened on TV shows - or, even worse, they won't let her see her little sister anymore.

Over time, the voices began to speak more distinctly, and the girl no longer suffered from headaches. She began to understand what every particular voice was saying, and sometimes she even recognized them: An old neighbor who constantly complained about local authorities, a lady in a supermarket who thought about her husband and his secretary. Claire didn't understand much of what she heard, but she was grateful that she could deal with it now.

## Relationship

### Marshall & Florence Layton (adoptive parents)

Ever since Carrie got into this family, she always tried her best to impress her adoptive parents. She was a straight A-student at school, the best in both Literature and Drama clubs, mastered foreign languages. She did everything to get at least minimal praise, but at best received a few words in response.

For some time, she even believed that Marshall and Florence were her biological parents (which was probably the result of her head injury), so she didn't understand why they were so distant. But years passed by, the Laytons hardly honored her with their attention, and finally the girl decided to give up. When the time came to do something to get rid of the influence of their parents and protect themselves, Carrie without hesitation agreed to run away with her sister. Since then, she has hardly heard anything about this family.

## Trivia

* By the age of 21, Carrie was fluent in six foreign languages: She already knew Latin when she came to the Laytons, even though she didn't remember when did she learn it, and her sister, MJ, taught the girl French when they were younger. Also, Caroline mastered German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese (being 12, 16, 17 and 21 years old respectively) in case she and Mallory go to live somewhere else later in life.
* Carrie earned a black belt in Taekwondo when she was only nine.