Once the other clung to his back he stood and looped his arms under the taller male's legs. It took a moment to ensure he was steady like this, but once more he found himself grimly amazed at how much<i>better </i>he felt<i>. </i>Despite the weight of the man on his back he managed to keep a normal pace as he walked back to the hunter's headquarters, but he didn't speak as he normally would, he didn't feel up to his normal chatter. Instead, he found himself trying to keep his mind as empty as possible... Get Luca somewhere safe, go after the other hunter... And then what? His mind seemed to stop there, and while he had hit so many dead ends before they had never felt as<i>final</i>as this one. The other's blood didn't kill him, and he had taken from a human... For Aries, it was as if his world was shattered, and just a soft touch would have it crashing down around him. For as strong as the vampire was now, he was more fragile than any glass.<br/><br/>Finally, they reached the headquarters and Aries didn't bother knocking as he entered, and he also ignored his promise to Luca about not letting those here know what he was. He couldn't have hidden it anyway probably, he was coated in blood and his eyes were clearly that of the undead, but he didn't care even as he saw some of them take out their weapons nervously. "He's hurt." He said finally, carefully setting Luca down. Perhaps the hunters there would have sent them both away just then, they seemed about to, but one waved the others down and stepped forward.<br/><br/>"Still kicking there, kid?" The tall, well-built man asked, a smirk on his lips while he looked to Aries. The vampire looked to him a moment as he straightened but gave no inclination that he knew him. "You<i>are</i>Aries, right? The immortal bloodsucker?" The man then asked, the vampire blinking before he nodded. The man gave him an odd look, but before he could continue Aries turned. "I'm going to go find him." The vampire said to Luca, he didn't care if anyone else knew where he was going and soon he had run out the door down the street again, following the faint scent of the hunter from before.<br/><br/>The man watched him leave before he sighed, the other hunters were swiftly talking and some had stood but the stranger just shrugged. "You don't have to worry about him, the kid doesn't go after humans." He assured those in the building, but many raised a skeptical look to him and he just laughed. "Go ahead, if you want to chase him, but trust me, even if you take out his heart he just comes back to life." He said lightly, but there was a bit of a sneer to his words... As though he had actually done so. He finally looked to Luca and smiled a bit more amicably, motioning for him to follow and sit to they could treat him. "Name's Alex, nice to meet you. I heard someone saw the brat with a new "friend", so i'm guessing that's you?" He said lightly, but also maybe just a bit... tauntingly.