Stella woke up as the sun poured in, refusing her any sleep as she turned again to escape it. Her green eyes fluttered open as she shielded her eyes from the sun with her hand and slowly sat up. Suddenly, she was wide awake as she heard Claude's voice yell her name. Standing up quickly, she stumbled to the door, still half-asleep. Throwing it open, she ran from her room and slid around corners to get to the grand staircase. Panting and pausing at the top, she almost ran into a bloody Claude stubling up the last stair to the top. A gasp of shock left her lips and she quickly caught him as he fell, though they both went down from his weight being too much for her to handle alone.<br/><br/>Stella softened his fall though and held onto him tightly. "Claude..Claude what happened?" she asked in shock. Letting his head lay on her lap, she brushed his hair away from his face and took in the sight of his blood covered body. He was bleeding majorly and she could feel her chest clenching up in pain from seeing him this way. Ripping the hem of her dress off, she started to wrap the places that were bleeding and could be wrapped. Ripping off large chunks, she pressed them onto his wounds and silently begged for him to live through this. "Jerome! Massa! Henry! Someone!" she yelled, looking around quickly as she began to tear up. Not knowing what to do for him was killing her as she continued to look down at him and lightly brush her finger tips over his pale cheek in a soothing way. "You'll be okay...You have to be.." she whispered, her voice cracking as tears welled up in her eyes.