So this morning on our way home from church, my brother and sister insisted on telling me this brain twister riddle thing they had heard. I don't like riddles because I'm not smart enough to figure them out unless I've heard them before, so I kept giving sarcastic answers and my sister random said, "You sound like Daniel!" (We are both that obsessed with the movie that that is now a near daily saying between us haha) She said that and I knew I had to just write it down. So Daniel's reactions are my own.

Category: Humor
Setting: Pre-heists
Characters/Pairings: Daniel Atlas, Henley Reeves
Rating/Warnings: K+
Summary: Daniel will never admit defeat, much to Henley's frustration.

Disclaimer: Neither Now You See Me nor its characters belong to me.

Brain Twister

"Cleopatra and Andrew are lying on the floor. There is water and broken glass surrounding them. They weren't poisoned and Caesar had nothing to do with it. How did they die?"

Daniel just looked up with a disbelieving look on his face.

"Really, Henley?" He asked.

"Just answer the question!" Henley demanded.

Daniel sighed. Henley had made it her personal mission to trip him up, be it with a puzzle, work, or, apparently, a brain twister. He just shook his head and put his pen down. Two could play at that game.

"Well you never said that they were dead so nothing killed them."

Henley just stared at him, mouth opening and shutting several times before finding the words.

"Cleopatra and Andrew are lying dead on the floor," She amended, "There is water and broken glass surrounding them. They weren't poisoned and Caesar had nothing to do with it. How did they die?

"That would make no sense, though," Daniel his grin as Henley just stared at him in disbelief. "Cleopatra committed suicide with the venom of a snake, and venom counts as poison, so your scenario would make no sense whatsoever."

"Daniel!" Henley glared. She hated when he turned things around on her! "Just answer the riddle!"

"But it can't be answered!" Daniel argued. "You are messing with history and you just can't do that. Cleopatra died by poison."

"They didn't die by poison!" Henley all but snapped. "Do you give up?"

"Fine," Daniel sighed dramatically, barely managing to hide a grin. "How did they die?"

"They're goldfish!" Henley chirped happily. "And Caesar is a cat! He knocked the bowel over, it shattered, and they died on the floor surrounded by water and broken glass!"

"Why is Caesar a cat?" Daniel asked, no longer able to hide his grin. "That's a stupid name for a cat. Cleopatra would be better for the cat's name because the Egyptians used to worship cats and Cleopatra was an Egyptian."

"You're impossible!" Henley groaned and left the room.

Daniel just grinned as he watched her go. Sometimes he wondered why she even tried.