World Enough and Time

There was a novel whose ending offended and horrified me, but my story lacks punch because I don't recall the title or authors. It was a fantasy by two women - possibly Melissa Scott was one. The story contained fae or fairies, and the villain was a pedophile who abused and molested childen. When apprehended at the end, the fae forced him to undergo the same rapes to which he had subjected children. This horrified me on so many levels I swore to never read anything by those authors again, and as far as I know, I haven't.

They entered officers' country. Lieutenant Yegorov led them through an antechamber and into a spartanly-appointed flag office twice the size of anything Miles had seen on a Barrayaran ship before. Admiral Count Aral Vorkosigan looked up from his comconsole desk as the doors slid silently back.

Miles stepped through, his belly suddenly shaking inside. To conceal and control his emotion he tossed off, "Hey, you Imperial snails are going to go all fat and soft, lolling around in this kind of luxury, y'know?"

"Ha!" Admiral Vorkosigan stumbled out of his chair and banged around the corner of his desk in his haste. Well, no wonder, how can he see with all that water standing in his eyes? He enfolded Miles in a hard embrace. Miles grinned and blinked and swallowed, face smashed against that cool green sleeve, and almost had control of his features again when Count Vorkosigan held him out at arm's length for an anxious, searching inspection. "You all right, boy?"

"Just fine. How'd you like your wormhole jump?"

• Lymond's friendship with Kate Somerville in the Dunnett novels
  
• Lymond's friendship with Will Scott
  
• Lymond's fraught relationship with his mother
  
• The relationship between Wolverine and his son Daken in Marvel comics
  
• The relationship between Wolverine and Jubilee in Marvel comics
  
• The friendship between Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four
  
• Cairo Azarcon and his son Ryan in the Karin Lowachee novels, particularly Burndive
  
• Batman and Nightwing in DC comics; or for that matter, Dick Grayson and Damian. To my surprise and joy, they are delightful together.
  
• The relationships between Andrej Koscuisko and just about anyone in the Jurisdiction Universe novels by Susan R. Matthews
  
• Aragorn and Legolas in The Lord of the Rings

“...I don’t need anything special. All we really need is to go home. No--come to think of it, I do want a favor.”
“Name it,” he said eagerly.
“Lieutenant Rosemont’s grave. It was never marked. I may never get back here. While it’s still possible to find the remains of our camp, could you have your people mark it? I have all his numbers and dates. I handled his personnel forms often enough, I still have them memorized.”
“I’ll see to it personally.”
“Wait.” He paused, and she held out a hand to him. His thick fingers engulfed her tapering ones; his skin was warm and dry, and scorched her. “Before we go pick up poor Lieutenant Illyan again...”
He took her in his arms, and they kissed, for the first time, for a long time.
“Oh,” she muttered after. “Perhaps that was a mistake. It hurts so much when you stop.”
“Well, let me...” His hand stroked her hair gently, then desperately wrapped itself in a shimmering coil; they kissed again.
“Uh, sir?” Lieutenant Illyan, coming up the path, cleared his throat noisily. “Had you forgotten the Staff conference?”
Vorkosigan put her from him with a sigh. “No, Lieutenant. I haven’t forgotten.”

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

1. Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles
   
2. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
   
3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
   
4. Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold
   
5. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
   
6. The Lion in Winter by James Goldman