Walking away in that moment was by far the hardest thing that Paige had ever done.

"Please don't go."

Emily's eyes as she said that are all all she can see now as she walks to her right gate. She stops when she sees her father stepn in front of her.

"What are you doing here?" Paige asks.

"I decided to drive you instead." Nick replies.

"Oh. We still leaving tonight?" Paige asked.

"If we don't go tonight, it will change everything." She heard him mumble.

She was brought out of the daydream by a sharp smack across her face.

"I will not be ignored Ms. McCullers!" The older man yelled.

"Do what you want, it won't change who I am. You can't beat the gay out of me anymore than I can beat the ignorance out of you!" A hard kick to her chair sent her sailing, face first, to the floor. Paige saw stars as her face connected with concrete. A fist wrapping around her collar pulled her up before she even had time to get her bearings. She knew what happened next. It's why she chose to act out today. When Father Adams had a bouncer with him, someone was going to be moved to the outdoor "sanctuary" where they would be punished. And by punish, Paige heard of awful stories. Girls being forced into horrible things. Boys being beaten within an inch of their life.

Paige was prepared. She took several of the knives from dinner. She picked out the sharpest one this morning, sliding it into her sock. She was reminded of it's placement when she hit the floor with her leg being cut from the impact. Stab and run. Stab and run. Paige repeated this over and over until the door flew open and she was shoved into a brick wall outside. The man turned Paige around and attatched his lips to her neck, shoving his hands onto her hips to hold her still.

"You know what happens now right? You just haven't been satisfied by the right man yet. You just need to be shown what a man can do for you that a woman can't." He started to take his belt and unbutton his pants. With his head down, Paige saw the perfect opportunity to grab the knife. Acting swiftly she pulled it out and forced it into the mans side. Screaming at the contact the man fell to his knees, before falling to his side, clutching the knife. Paige took one last look at the man before breaking into a sprint into the nearby woods that seperated the large brick building from the rest of the woods.

Paige ran as fast as she could. She knew where she was. Six miles from Rosewood. A run she could have easily done quicker, if not for her weakend state. She had no idea where she was going to go exactly until she was on the road to the Hasting's house. Headlights from a passing car blinded her. She didn't think anything of it until the car slowed down and made a u-turn towards her. She picked up her pace, best she could, fearing the worst, but knowing Spencer's house was close. As she rounded the path the car came to a halt, a door flying open. As Paige put her foot on the stairs a hand grabbed her hair and pulled her back. Resisting the tug, Paife fell forward from the momentum and landed on the stairs, her cheekbone and left ribs connecting with the steps.

"Why didn't you just stay out Paige?" Nick asked.

Paige crawled as best she could up the stairs, her father looming over her at the landing. The man moved forward, his fist connecting with the already injured side of her face, splitting it open worse than the stairs had done.

"Why are you doing this?" Paige asked.

"I just wanted a normal straight daughter. Not this filthy gay trash!" Nick yelled as he pulled his leg back and kicked Paige with so much force she saw stars and tasted blood. Nick continued to kick Paige until he had forced her into the corner of the porch. Just as he moved to pick her up, headlights shown down the road and the sound of gracel crunching under tires made him drop her and run. Paige heard his car pull away just as another entered the other end of the driveway.

Hearing car doors open and several sets of female voices, all of which sounded familiar, Paige started to relax for the first time in a month and a half. Hearing the voices reach the porch and a set of keys in the door, Paige made a move to roll over, unsucessfully, and causing herself to let out what little noise she could over the blood pouring into her mouth.

"What was that?" one of the voices said.

"Get the flashlight on your phone out, I think it was just an animal." Another voice said.

"Oh my God! It's a person." The first voice said.

Paige noticed the light on her face before someone screamed her name in recognition. The next thing she feels is being lifted off the porch and feeling the warmth of a couch under her back.

"We need to call Emily, Spencer." Hanna telled.

"No, we need to call her parents, Han. She is supposed to be with them in California." Spencer yelled.

Upon hearing about them wanting to call her parents, Paige tried to sit up and yelled out a strangeled "no".

"Paige, it's ok. We will call your dad and let him know whats happened, that your here." Spencer said.

"Don't. He did this." Paige managed to get out before Toby made a move to lay her back down. "Don't!" she yelled at the boy.

"Lets get her to the hospital now. Hanna, you call Em, I'll call my mom/ Toby, get her into my car please." Spencer said.

Noticing the way Paige was fighting off Toby trying to pick her up, Spencer switched places with him. Her stomach turning at the thought of why the broken girl would fight off Toby, hoping she was wrong.

Arriving at the hospital they were met by Veronica Hastings, several nurses and a doctor. While Paige was wheeled away to surgery, Spencer explained everything to her mother. How Paige was on their porch looking mangeled and how she said her father had done it to her. Veronica moved to the side to call the police when Pam and Emily Fields burst into the E.R.. Emily had tears down her face as she made eye contact with Spencer, running to her friend when she saw blood on her and Toby's shirts.

"They just took her back to surgery." Spencer said.

"Who?" Emily asked. "Hanna just said to get here, someone was hurt."

"What? I didn't want to tell her who over the phone." Hanna defended.

"It's Paige, Em." Spencer said to her shocked friend.