Highlander: The New Gathering #wattys2018

Episode 9: Goodbye Old Friend

Venturing back to the church, Ying kicks down the door to the upper balcony and she gets into the face of Regina.

"You lied to me!!!!" she screams.

"Dear child, whatever do you mean?" Regina playfully wonders. Ying grows even more enraged, and she places her sword towards Regina's neck.

"You murdered my clan! Destroyed my home!" Ying tearfully says.

"So? It's not like you were happy among those men. They would have made you worthless, I gave you purpose!" Regina hisses.

"You fed me hate! And you made me into a monster!" Ying shouts.

"I made you into a beautiful goddess! You should thank me!" Regina roars.

"No, I should kill you!" Ying tries to strike at Regina's head with her sword, but Ying feels a cold blade go through her chest. She looks down to see a hidden blade coming out of Regina's arm.

"You're fast, but I am just a little faster... YING!" Regina removes her hidden arm blade from Ying's chest, forcing her to bleed out rapidly. Regina then repetadley stabs Ying in the heart with the blade, forcing her near a stained glass window.

"Your head is not worth taking, I have no use for you..." Regina then kicks Ying in the chest, sending her out of a window. As Ying falls, she is brutally impaled on top of a thin metal rod.

"...after I am done with Duncan and his little brat, I will gladly end your suffering so you can join the men that made you weak." Regina scowls, looking at the broken body of Ying. As Ying dies, she reminisces about her times with Ashlyn, and how she fiercely loved her. Tears flow from her face as she takes a final breath.

Moments later, Ying wakes up in Sonya's bar, with a massive headache. She sees Ashlyn, Joe, Methos and Sonya stand over her, as she lays on the couch.

"Ying, you feeling all right?" Ashlyn asks.

"Other than the throbbing migrane, yeah I am fine..." Ying groans.

"So this is your former girlfriend? I gotta tell you Ash, if I were a lesbian or bisexual, I would totally do her!" Sonya jokingly says.

"Ummm... thanks, I think?" Ying says confused.

"So Regina did this to you? I thought you were with her?" Joe wonders.

"I was, until she lied to me about killing my clan... I was a fool. I'm sorry Ashlyn." Ying laments.

"Don't condemn yourself, she was using you." Ashlyn says.

"Still no sign of Duncan, Regina probably has taken his head..." Methos says.

"Come on Methos, Mac is not that easy to take out, have a little faith!" Joe says. While the others talk about what to do next, Ashlyn thinks back to ten years ago when she last saw Duncan, at Connors grave.

Scottland, eighteen years ago

"Duncan..." Ashlyn says.

"It's been too long, I assumed you've heard what happened." Duncan says.

"Yes, Joe told me. I'm sorry Duncan, I should have been there for you and Connor." Ashlyn softly sobs.

"You're here now, that's all that matters." Duncan smiles through tears.

"I hate how I left things between us all those years ago, I just wanted to apologize for that."  Ashlyn says.

"No need, that's in the past. I will never hold a grudge against you, ever." Duncan hugs Ashlyn, who returns the gesture in kind.