Author's note: This is just a series of drabbles from the Job Interview world because I write a lot more than what is published in each chapter.

If you haven't read Job Interview this will probably not make very much sense so please click through to my profile and read it first - thank you!

For those of you who have read Job Interview (new chapter is up!), I hope you enjoy these asides; some are just character sketches or odd ideas that diverge too much from the main storyline...and some are just plain farcical...

This particular chapter is set just after Relena enters the company and is announced as Heero's wife; some of you might remember that Relena wasn't very happy with Heero's choice of method and when cornered by a workmate in the bathroom after the meeting she shares some secrets about their wedded life...read on to find out what!

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Heero looked up as Doris came into his office to deposit yet another box on his desk. His brows drawn low in confusion, he called after her as she made to leave without saying anything.

The superior smile on her face made him nervous. Did she know why everyone was sending him this stuff?

"Who is this from?" he picked up the nasal inhaler she had just added to the pile.

"I think that one's from Matsuda, in the publicity department."

She left while he was still staring at the box in confusion. Had he missed some joke? Or was Matsuda trying to hint that he had sounded nasally in his last interview?

He picked up the box beneath the inhaler. It was a cold remedy, designed to unblock one's nose if taken last thing at night before sleeping.

The one next to that was a clip, designed to stop snoring...just as he worked out the connection between the assorted items he had been gifted with that morning, Duo entered the room with no more than a perfunctory knock, carrying yet another box.

He looked disappointed, "Oh, looks like you already have this one"

Heero glared at him.

Glares usually worked when you wanted to get information out of somebody. Unless that somebody happened to be someone who had been blessed/cursed with naturally thick skin and had grown immune to the glares after many years of repeated exposure.

"What is this all about Duo? Why does everyone seem to think that I need help with a snoring problem?"

Duo yawned, trying to look disinterested but the sparkle of mischief in his eye gave him away.

"There's a rumour going around that your nose gets a bit noisy at night"

Heero looked indignant,

"That's completely untrue. I don't snore"

Duo fixed him in a stare,

"How would you know when you're sleeping?"

Heero glared right back, "I just know, okay. I don't snore"

Duo held his hands up in mock surrender,

"Okay, okay, whatever you say. I'm just saying that you should probably get a second opinion on that"

Heero opened his mouth to retaliate, then paused. Relena. She would know if he snored or not.

"I'll ask Relena" he finally replied, with some measure of triumph.

Duo raised one eyebrow and Heero scowled again. He knew Duo just did that to rub in the fact that Heero couldn't.

"What if she's the source of the rumour?"

Duo stated the obvious possibility that Heero had not yet considered.

Could Relena have complained about his snoring? Maybe she had been too nervous to say anything to his face...Heero flushed. Snoring was an old-man problem and he was most certainly not an old man...somehow his pride was pricked at the thought of Relena being disturbed by him snoring, of all things.

Duo indicated the pile of anti-snoring products on Heero's desk,

"I think this is just an indication of how popular your wife has become already. I guess they feel sorry for her having to put up with your snoring every night."

By this stage Heero's face was irreparably red. Heero was not the blushing sort, but he was blushing now.

His mouth pulled into a line, "I'll sort this out"

That night Relena was surprised to see Heero already in bed when she came out of the en suite bathroom.

"Heero? Don't you need into the bathroom?"

"No thank you"

His voice was strangely muffled, but with his back turned she couldn't see any reason for it. Feeling something odd about his stiffness, but not yet knowing him well enough to say anything, Relena shrugged and slid into bed beside him.

"Night night Heero"

"Goodnight"

There was a pause, he obviously wanted to say more.

Then he spoke again, his voice strangely formal,

"I hope that my snoring doesn't keep you awake tonight"

Relena's eyes widened in shock, then she tried to hide a snigger as she snuggled into the bedcovers.

She couldn't believe that the rumour she had started had finally caught up with Heero.

Trying to keep the laughter out of her voice, she spoke.

"It's okay, I'm sure it won't"

Heero's eyes widened and he readjusted the nasal clip uncomfortably - it was true!

Relena turned over to sleep, a grin on her face.

Maybe in the morning she could tell him that he didn't snore at all.

Then again, maybe not.

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Author's note: Thanks for reading and hope you liked it - more random drabbles to come but I will of course be focusing on the main story!

Hope to see you again soon!

Chrikaru