His father, Curtis, took the children (Austin and his sister Billie) and changed their names to prevent their mother Kate Roberts from finding them.

[6] On September 15, 2016, it was announced that Peck would reprise his portrayal as Austin, alongside Christie Clark's Carrie.

Carrie gave Billie a place to stay, which led to the two of them spending a lot of time together.

Over the course of time, Sami regained her memory as well as learned—due to seeing medical records—that Wil wasn't Austin's son, and a told only Lucas.

However, the wedding ceremony was interrupted by Carrie, who exposed the truths that Lucas was Will's actual father and that Sami had been faking amnesia.

Sami left Salem for a while, but unfortunately Carrie and Austin's married bliss didn't last long.

Sami returned months later, fought for custody of Will, and fell in love and became engaged to Franco Kelly.

Because Austin had spent so much time with Sami in a misguided attempt to help her, Carrie felt their relationship was falling apart.

Carrie was furious with Austin for taking over her company, and Lucas stepped in to comfort her; they began a relationship.

Eventually Carrie and Lucas married, and Austin and Sami were a couple and were planning yet another wedding.

She soon believed she was pregnant due to an inaccurate pregnancy test, causing her and Lucas to rush their wedding date.

When Carrie found out there was no baby, and had a "hysterical pregnancy", she was distraught and cheated on Lucas with Austin (who was still engaged to Sami) on the roof of their apartment building.

After secretly meeting with Austin to make love and comfort one another, Lucas and Sami came to the roof and caught them.

After showing up with Dr. Finch to keep her promise, Lexie was immediately fired and Carrie felt that her stay in Salem was nearly complete.

During dinner, Austin suggested that they move to Switzerland, where he can work at the Mythic Communications division there and Carrie can reclaim Highstyle.

The two immediately went to the Justice of the Peace with their signed marriage licenses and got married (but not before being briefly interrupted by a drunk Sami and Carrie disowning her).

After saying their goodbyes to John, Kate, Marlena and Roman, Austin and Carrie took a plane and left Salem.

In June 2010, Carrie also briefly returned to town and told Sami that she and Austin were happy and trying to start a family.