They had expected the most difficult part of the job would be the reporters always looking for a soundbite or an errant phrase that could be twisted into fodder for the opposition. Merlin knows they've both made enough enemies at the Prophet from their school days, before they coupled up and then rose up to their current offices, that they expect a hit job every week for the rest of their careers.

What flummoxed them both, however, was that the most persistent and hardest to get rid of aggravation in their lives were the tabloids looking for content for Page Three instead of Page One.