Summary: One boy. One girl. One insane, prankster friend of boy. One insane, studious friend of girl. One truce. One plot. One tower. One key. And only one way out…

Meet the girl.

Lily Evans. 5'2, waist length red hair, emerald green eyes and fiery temper. Smartest witch to ever come to Hogwarts.

Meet the boy.

James Potter. 6'1, spiky short unruly black hair, hazel eyes, easy going. A major prankster who relishes in admiration.

Meet the friend of boy.

Sirius Black. 6'1, spiky hair, slightly longer than James', grey eyes, mischievous. A player, a prankster and a good friend.

Meet the friend of girl.

Rheanna Woods. 5'4, waist length red hair, jade green eyes and a slightly less fiery temper than Lily's. They could pass for twins and Rhea found it amusing to do so.

"Oh my god James, you have to get over her! She's not gonna like you," groaned Sirius Black, trying to make his best friend, James Potter, see sense.

They were back at Hogwarts for their seventh year, and James was already mooning over Lily Evans as he had for the past… Oh, say, SEVEN YEARS! Sirius was fed up with it. He was also fed up with seeing his best friend ending up crushed. Into pieces. On the floor. Where no one cared about them. Until Sirius came along and picked up the pieces and put his best friend back together. And then it would happen again. Sirius didn't see why James didn't give up on Lily. He'd been asking her out since first year, and she still said no. Although he supported James, Sirius wished he would just give up on Lily, and make everyone happier. Or Lily could just go out with James and everyone would be happy too. (Well, except for a few heartbroken fan girls, but who cares about their feelings?)

That was when Sirius got an idea. An outrageous, devious, evil plot. But he needed help to execute it. And he knew just who could help him…

"Alright team, great job today. We are definitely going to kick butt!" shouted James to the quidditch team, of which he was the captain.

His team, although exhausted from the practice, cheered, then walked back to the castle, towards the changing rooms. James stayed out for a couple more laps around the pitch. Sirius saw this as the perfect opportunity to execute his outrageous, devious, evil plot.

"Hey Woods!" he shouted. "Could I talk to you for a sec?"

"Sure Sirius," answered Rhea tiredly. She wasn't in the mood for what would happen if she refused, and, to tell the truth, she had a slight crush on him.

Sirius led Rhea over to a tree, pretty far away from school. Rhea looked at him warily.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna do anything to you, I just don't want anyone to hear. You know what the Hogwarts Gossip Chain is like," said Sirius, looking around for a sign of anyone else.

"What do you want Sirius? I'm cold, tired and hungry and I'd like to go back inside," said Rhea.

"Look, Rhea, I need your help with something, but first I need you to answer one question. I won't tell anyone your answer, I just want to know," He said, staring straight into her jade green eyes.

"If I think your question is one that deserves an answer, I'll tell you," answered Rhea

"I'll take what I can get," Sirius muttered. "Okay, do you think James and Lily would be a good couple?"

Rhea stared at him. "Are you serious?"

"Yes I am. And you're Rhea. I'm glad we both know each others names, but can you please answer my question?"

Rhea scowled at the name pun and answered slowly. "Well, I know Lily would kill me, but… Yeah, I think they'd make a good couple. Lily was genuinely scared when he fell off his broom at the quidditch match. She actually screamed out his name. She seemed like she really cared about him. He just has a way of getting on her nerves, ya know?"

"Excellent, now, would you be willing to help me in a plot to get them together?" asked Sirius hopefully.

All of a sudden Rhea smiled. An evil smile. One that made Sirius' blood run cold. Well, not exactly, but she still looked pretty evil. "I'll help you, Sirius Black, if you never, ever prank me again," said Rhea, smirking.

Sirius paled. Either give up pranking one of the best victims, or set his best mate up with the girl of his dreams. Sirius sighed. "The things I do for you James, I hope you appreciate it," he muttered. "I agree to your terms Rhea."

She looked at him, surprised. Sirius grinned. "If we made a truce, we should at least call each other by our first names, right?"

Rhea grinned as well. "I agree, Sirius. Now what was that 'outrageous, devious, evil' plot you had?"

"Well, you see..." said Sirius, and started off telling Rhea about his elaborate plot. And so it started. The plans to get girl and boy together. Unfortunately, the first few attempts were unsuccessful. And the second few, and the third few. Until they came across a problem.

"Sirius that was plan Z! What are we going to name the plans now?" asked Rhea, as she flopped down on the couch after the long and trying work of plan Z which involved the lake, the squid, the merpeople and a giant cow named Eifus. You don't want to know any more.

"Lets call them… Operation Get Lily and James Together Before The End Of The Year Or Die Trying. Since that's kind of long we can call it Operation: GLAJTBTEOTYODT. And we can number them, because you don't run out of numbers till you get to fifty!"

"Sirius, numbers go on forever. Just like your energy. And your stupid ideas." Sighed Rhea exasperatedly.

"And like the song that never ends. I'll sing it for you! This is the song that never ends, for it goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it just because, this is the song that never ends, for it goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it just because, this is the song that never ends, for it goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it just because, this is the song that never ends, for it goes on and on my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it just because…" Here Sirius was cut off by a loud moan of pain from Rhea. "Sirius, please, shut up!" she screamed. Sirius stopped singing, but he pouted.

"And all my ideas are not bad Rhea!" said Sirius indignantly.

"Then why hasn't one worked yet?" asked Rhea, sitting up.

"Ummmm……." Said Sirius, at loss as to what to say. "Well then what do you suggest, miss smarty pants?" he asked.

"I say we lock them in a tower and tell them the only way to get out is to work together. Then send them obstacles to get out of. We could turn the whole tower into a virtual world, and make them complete levels." Said Rhea, warming up to the idea. "But we'd have to get permission from Dumbledore and we couldn't do it in school, so we'd have to use a break. Christmas break is coming up soon, so we could use that, which gives us exactly four weeks to plan!" she said, turning to Sirius to see what he thought.

"That does sound… Okay," he said uncertainly. Suddenly he smiled. "Actually, it sounds great! And so commences Operation: GLAJTBTEOTYODT, plan 1!" He smiled goofily, and Rhea smiled back. This would be perfect. This would make history. This would make their to best friend s fall completely and hopelessly in love with each other. They hoped. And if it didn't, who cares? You can never run out of numbers for you plans.