Aries couldn't help his worry... Was Luca okay? Couldn't Alex go check on him? It was Luca, right? Aries was sure it was... But each step farther they took the more he tried to quiet his thinking, his racing heart... He couldn't see Luca, never again, and his throat tightened the more he thought about it. However, due to his anxiety, he hadn't heard the soft footsteps, though he had never been the perceptive type anyway. It wasn't until Luca spoke that Aries turned towards him swiftly just in time for the knife to go past him. Alex had reacted too, the hunter managing to move just enough for the knife to embed itself in his vest rather than his flesh.<br/><br/>Aries stared wide-eyed at Luca... Why did he look so bad? Why did he look hurt? Was he okay? Why was he attacking Alex? Alex grimaced, moving to stand just behind Aries before he put on his amicable smile again. "Luca? Hey, what are you doing? I thought you said you didn't want to see this kid again." Alex played off, however, just as he was about to tell Aries to scram, thinking that perhaps he could end Luca and make it look like an "accident", he looked down to meet the furious eyes of the red-haired creature.<br/><br/>The hunter froze a moment, he hadn't ever seen Aries give that look to a human, much less himself... But he tried to laugh it off. "What? I've been with you, right? Whatever happened to him wasn't me. And anyway..." His eyes darkened as he wrapped his hand around Aries' throat. "Even if I did, you don't hurt humans, remebe-" He didn't have a  chance to finish as Aries turned and soon the large hunter was on his back on the pavement with the smaller male's fingers digging into his neck. Alex coughed, his hands clawing at the vampire's wrists, but Aries merely stared at him with crazed grey eyes.<br/><br/>"What did you do to Luca?" He asked, his voice cold. Luca was kind, he wouldn't harm someone for no reason... Alex did something. Aries trembled, his small form straddled the larger man's chest but every time Alex tried to throw him off the vampire squeezed harder until he calmed. Aries had never harmed a human, aside from the instance with Luca... But... "I only hurt monsters..." He finally said in an eerily calm voice even as tears began welling in his eyes. Alex was a monster, right? If he hurt Luca then he couldn't be anything else, right? Alex stared at Aries and tried to speak, to shake his head, since when had the brat had a will of his own? He had never acted like this in the past... Even when he traveled with someone for awhile he would never fight a human for them, Alex had tried that. And yet... "Does Luca want him gone?" Aries asked in that same tone... He didn't have the will to kill someone himself, but if Luca told him to... Alex froze, eyes darting between the two... Luca wouldn't actually kill him, right? He wasn't that stupid... Right, he'd just worm his way out of this somehow.