Slip Out The Back
Based on the song by Fort Minor (same title)
By the Myth Lord
He was sick of all the arguing, he was sick of never getting the attention he deserved. He was sick of his damn father trying to buy him off. The pain his family put him through was just wrong. And forcing him to become a Death Eater was the final straw.
On this warm summer night Draco Malfoy was remembering the words he was once told. The words were spoken by a fellow coward. Draco considered them both cowards because neither of them ever stood up to their fathers. The kid never told anyone his name, he was too ashamed, but teachers called him Gory. Gory told Draco on one stormy night about his escape. He said that when you come home to another seemingly empty house go up to your and pack your shit and slip out the back before they knew you were even there.
Draco then remembered the words of the one Gryphindor he ever became friends with, the gambling addict Lee Jordan. One night while Lee, Draco, and some of the other gamble happy residents of Hogwarts were playing poker, Lee offered some of the most solid advice Draco had ever heard. He said life is just like poker. "You gotta know when ya got no hope left and that's when you fold. You gotta know when to fold." He continued saying "Ya also gotta know when to hold your cards. And when you hold you better be hoping no one's stacking the deck."
Draco never really knew how this advice would help him. He would never be able to survive if he ran. And he didn't quite understand how Lee's advice would help him yet. But then the idea struck him like lighting strikes a metal pole on top of a building. He had to stop folding his money, he had to hold it. And he needed to start praying his dad didn't "stack the deck" by finding his stash. And then a day would finally come where Draco could just walk out.
Draco put his plan into action the next time he walked in on one of his dad's torture sessions with captured aurors. His dad gave him ten galleons just to get away from him. By the end of the first month Draco had a hundred galleons. He began to spend his time roaming the basement, grabbing the things he knew were port keys to hidden places by "mistake", and he got paid the most for walking in on his dad's torture sessions which often included rape.
And one day after he collected enough money to live off for a year he realized his time at Malfoy Manor was coming to a close. And a week later after coming home from a poker game with his buddies, Draco grabbed his money, clothes, school supplies, wand, and he even dared to steal his dad's Orb of the Fire Storm.
And once he was outside he realized why he grabbed the orb. He realized that he couldn't just walk away. He needed to destroy. Draco put his bags down and reached for the orb and his wand. With a tap of the wand the orb would begin to blink black, and after five blinks a tornado of flames would grow from the orb. And Draco knew it would kill a good amount of Death Eaters, and hopefully his father with them.
So he tapped his wand to the orb and pitched it right through the kitchen window. Know he could finally slip out the back.