I thought that this would be an interesting place to post this question, especially as it is a shipping community for Claire/Niki.
So, obviously, everybody in the Heroverse is somehow connected, correct? Even Hiro manages to make his way to NYC to get in the game.
Claire asks her mother to tell her who her adoptive parents are. Niki's mother has a 'country' Southern accent (do not call it "hick" or "redneck" because I will kill you, okay? We call really Southern accents 'country.'). It's not impossible that she's actually from Texas.
So, ya think that maybe Niki and Claire are actually sisters? The real problem here is that Claire is obviously younger than Niki, so maybe I'm off there? How old is Niki? I guess if she's thirty-two (or older), having a daughter at sixteen isn't out of the question. Hmm. I hadn't even thought of that before I started this post. I was all about the sisters, yo.
Just askin'. :-)