Disclaimer: Same as always I don't own ANY of JK's characters. I do own Payton and Tess though.

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews, if you want me to keep going, tell me because I'm not sure if I am going to. This is another short chapter, I know I know they are all short, but I have been very busy this past month, so don't blame me! I'm going to try and post a new chapter every day and I'm going to write new ones in study hall every school day. I most likely am not going to be able to post everyday because I have volleyball four out of the five weekdays and I have consecutive tournaments for the next three weeks and they take up my whole weekend! I will try! Lannei

Chapter Six: Plan for Escape

Payton woke in her room three days after the argument in Diagon Alley. During the past two days Payton had locked herself in her room, allowing no one to enter. She spent the long hours of the day devising a plan to escape and the night to pack. Her plan was to escape the Malfoy's manor and stay at Tess Strutsad's house in Scotland. Payton's plan would easily fail if the one person she needed could not complete his job. That one person was none other than Draco Malfoy.

Draco had to convince his father to take the Aiwa charm off of the manor. The Aiwa charm was invented by Mr. Malfoy after Payton had escaped the manor the first time. As Payton thought about the Aiwa charm and Draco's job, her mind wandered to the memory of her first escape.

~~Payton was covered in blood. Lucius Malfoy had just beaten her for cursing at him. Malfoy had used his cane as a devise of punishment. He had hit every part of Payton's body until it bled. She was covered in gashes in the shape of a serpent. She couldn't see out of her right eye and her right leg and left arm were broken in many different places. After Malfoy thought that she had been convinced that cursing him was not a good idea, he made Draco take her to her room.

Payton was barely six years old. Draco and she had become very good friends even though they had only known each other for a year. Draco picked Payton up and carried her to her room. Once there, he placed her on her bed.

"Pay Pay, I'm so sorry." Draco murmured. With a meek smile, he left her in her room to be consumed by her thoughts.

Payton looked in the mirror to see the damage that Lucius had done. She started to sob because of the major pain she was in. "I didn't deserved this," Payton told herself. "All I did was call him a dirty Death Eater. He didn't have to go this far. I don't want to live here any more. I'm going to leave this place and never come back."

With that thought set in her mind, Payton limped around her room picking up the items she needed for her escape. She took a blanket off her bed and packed her clothes in it. She placed the two galleons that Mr. Malfoy had given her in her pocket. She then raped herself in her cloak and unlocked the window. She climbed down the side of the wall, using her one good hand, by scaling down the drainage pipe. Once she reached the ground she ran as fast as her injured body could carry her to the closest town.

Once she reached the small village of Smaretline, she collapsed. She was so fatigued that breathing and thinking at the same time were hard for her. She lay unconscious in a drainage grate for hours upon hours. She was found by the police a few hours later and turned into the small, muggle, towns only hospital. The Malfoy family found her a day later, and returned her to their house. Mr. Malfoy beat Payton more, then threw her into her room, and placed the Aiwa charm on the manor. ~~

Payton was snapped out of her vision when she heard a knock on the door. She kept her eyes on the door and said nothing. She didn't want any company yet. She still had to find out more about the Aiwa charm. The person knocked again.

"Payton Elizabeth!" whispered Draco. "What are you doing in there? You haven't eaten in two days and you have never left your room! Let me in!!!"

Payton didn't want any company, but she thought it was a good idea to let Draco into her room so she could tell him her plan. She quickly slinked over to the door, and let him in. She closed the door behind her and locked with both the regular lock and the dead bolt. She sat down on her bed and sighed. "This is going to be interesting." She told herself.