A.N.: Okay this has to be short; I'm leaving for school in thirty minutes.
Chap. 3: Territory wars
After they promised not to speak to anyone about the dark mark (though Molly still intended to speak to Arthur about it) Nicci walked around the house, peeking into the rooms. When she got to the twins room she heard light music coming from it. She sneaked inside and, saw that the twins weren't in the room then walked to the center of it to try to find where the music was coming from. She saw one of the desks a jack-in-the-box. Its handle was moving and the music was coming from it. She walked towards it to look closer at it but when she got one foot from it it started shaking and smoking. She backed away hastily and was almost to the door when it exploded, sending her flying from the room. Out of habit as soon as she sat up she yelled, "I didn't do it!" Fred saw her fly through the door and heard her plea of innocence.
"What did you do you little blighter!" He yelled when he saw he no longer had a door. She stared blankly at him for a few seconds. She stood up and dusted off her clothes.
"Um, well you see here's what happened." Then she turned and ran, leaving him staring after her for a minute before running after her.
Nicci slid down the banister to the bottom of the stairs, and straight into George. He looked slightly puzzled as to why she was running.
"Nicci, what are you doing?" Hearing Fred thundering down the stairs to her she took evasive action. She climbed up George's pant leg and onto his back behind his shoulders. "Hey Nicci! What are you doing!"
She pointed at Fred and said. "Running from him."
"She blew off our bloody door!"
"Well you shouldn't have exploding jack-in-the-boxes playing in your room!" Both twins looked at her with sheepish looks on their faces.
"Oh, sorry 'bout that, it's one of our inventions and it hasn't had the bugs worked out of it yet."
"You see we're trying to invent something that would not only alert the person that someone's in their room but get the person out of the room to. But the exploding thing would probably hurt someone."
"You shouldn't have it playing then, it makes people curious. You should have something that makes people want to stay out of the room, like saaaay, a vicious venus flytrap that's not really vicious, or have something that marks the person when they walk into the room if they weren't invited in, like have it spit glitter at them. So they aren't hurt and they have to walk around with glitter on for the rest of the day, it'd be funny, embarrassing, and you would know if they were in your room." The twins looked at each other then at Nicci. Then said in unison.
"We've got to try that!"
"That's a really good idea,-" Fred said.
"Maybe you could work with us in a few years,-" George said,
"When you turn eight maybe,-"
"Say, she could help us with our sales in Hogwarts."
"Yeah, she could use the first years as guinea pigs for us!"
"Yeah they don't trust us anymore.-"
"But they'll trust her!" Nicci smiled sadly as they excitedly discussed how they could get her to sell at Hogwarts, knowing she'd never be able to go to Hogwarts. She was three years too old for that school. But magic can hide many things.