AN: Yeah I know, tiny update but I'm trying a new system since seems to like to edit out my little time jump separators and makes it a little hard to follow the story. At least in my opinion. Again, I do not own Haruka or any other characters from Sailormoon. Though there are times I wish I was a bit more like my Haru ..

If We Never Knew, Chapter 2

"What's the job this time?" Haruka asked unceremoniously, walking up to Jan's car yet again a few weeks later. Jan had gotten into the habit of waiting in the same spot at least twice a week after Haruka's school let out for the day. Every job she was given, Haruka had performed without more than a couple questions, and the Boss was increasingly pleased with Haruka's work. A couple of times when the delivery had to be done at night, Haruka had almost gotten caught by her and Sakura's new foster parents, but she lucked out each and every time. There was no way Haruka could fail any of these errands- she fully understood that there was simply too much at stake.

"You'll like this one," Jan replied, a small smirk on her face though her usual sunglasses obscured her eyes. "Not a delivery."

"I'm not killing anybody, or doing some stranger if that's what you've got in mind," Haruka retorted hotly.

"Nothing like that. The Boss likes you behind the wheel. There's another race this weekend. 11pm, meet us at Lotus," Jan returned cooly. She actually did like Haruka and part of her felt sorry for this kid being dragged into such a horrible life but at least Jan was certain Haruka had what it would take to last. "All you have to do is show up and win."

"Oh yeah no problem there. Am I going to get my ass kicked for showing up again?" Haruka asked dryly.

"Dante'll back off. He's stupid but not that stupid. As for the rest of them, well don't bite first and they won't bite back." Jan shrugged.

"Yeah, if you say so," Haruka replied, still skeptical. She still didn't trust any of these thugs, as she suspected was only right since they didn't seem to trust each other either.

"Look, just be there and you might actually get paid this time kid," Jan smirked before getting into her car.

"Don't call me 'kid'," Haruka replied automatically, but Jan was already pulling away. Haruka sighed, wondering for the hundreth time how the hell she got herself into this mess. She decided to take a longer route home and just drive for a little while, since the wind always seemed to calm her and clear her head.

When Haruka got home that night, her foster parents were waiting for her. "You're getting home a little later than usual today," Mrs. Nakahara said, her arms crossed in front of her chest.

"Yeah, I needed to take a drive," Haruka replied, not wanting to give away much more information than she really had to.

"You should have called. We were worried," Mr. Nakahara returned. He barely stifled a sigh; of all the foster children he and his wife had taken care of, Haruka tended to be one of the more difficult. Not because she was violent or moody, which she wasn't really, but because Haruka seemed very fond of her privacy and it was extremely difficult to get her to talk about much of anything.

"Give me a cell phone and I might. Otherwise, there weren't any payphones around. Now if you'll excuse me I'm tired and I still have my homework to do," Haruka replied shortly.

Mrs. Nakahara sighed. "Fine then. There's some dinner for you in the refrigerator if you get hungry."

"I won't," Haruka replied, going to her room and closing the door. What she hadn't said is she'd done her homework before school let out, and had been ever since her first courier assignment. Tonight, she just mentally analyzed what she'd need to tune on her car in order to win the race Jan had told her about.

Dez Commentary: A few notes however: it came to my attention (thanks McFleet!) that I accidentally had Sakura as being two different ages. She's younger than Haruka, about ten right now. And I am intending this to be a Haru/Michi fic eventually, but Michiru hasn't been "found" yet. I'll probably just skip ahead a few years in later chapters to have Michiru and the other Senshi "found", though I'm giving each Senshi a little extra sensitivity that I think makes sense but is only really hinted at on Michiru and Rei in the series. As far as what was in the envelope, keep reading and you might just find out what was inside. Or you might not. Because I'm evil like that.