Snape/Ron: Legend in Silver by Vera

Title: Legend in Silver
Gaining Access: Open archive.
Author: Vera. (While I'd thought I first read this on LJ, the only link I've been able to find is to the Snape/Weasley Archive, and I thought I knew the author's LJ but um. I was wrong.)
Length/Word Count: about 41,000 words
Alternate Links to Fic/Art: None I can find right now.
Pairing: Snape/Ron
Rating: R
Why everyone should read this: Because it's a satisfyingly lengthy Snape/Ron story! Because it features a battle-hardened Ron--blinded but now possessing "Silver Sight" and able to sense emotions--going to Snape for help to repair his eyes...but it's not hurt/comfort. Because it is deliciously, seriously AU--from the playing out of the war, to the Potters and Regulus Black still being alive, to Harry being a rather manipulative Minister of Magic, to Draco being....ah, well, I think that's better read in the story, personally.

Also, Ron has tattoos and piercings, and come on. That's just hot.

The story includes two other interesting rarepairs of note: Hermione/Regulus and Percy/Draco. We don't see a whole lot of the Hermione/Regulus, mostly it's encapsulated in a scant handful of scenes severely cut from the action in Snape's rooms, but we do get to watch Percy and Draco's relationship develop. As a result, Snape displays a lot of protectiveness over Draco, and several nice brotherly scenes between Percy and Ron are played out.

Snippet:
Delirious with joy, he groped his way out of the bathroom and down the hall. He knew that Snape's bedroom was within though he had never gone in. Courtesy had left his vocabulary and he slammed open the door.

"Snape! It's a fucking muscle! A muscle!"

"mfgshk...whatinbloodyhell..."

"The whole fucking time we've been thinking my eyes are so much silver jelly and they're still there! And functioning!"

"Lumos. What are you babbling about you idiot.....why are you naked!"

Ron felt a hot flash of embarrassment flush his whole body, but didn't let that deter him.

"The Silver Sight isn't a curse! That's why the books don't talk of any one getting hexed with it. It's all workable! You just need to strengthen the muscle. People weren't trying to figure out what caused it to stop it! They were trying to replicate it!"

"And how did you figure this out!"

"Complete muscle spasm! I saw for about...oh, three or four seconds. But that was enough. Do you have a stimulant around here? I could probably copy the results..."

"I will agree to help you, even though it is an unseemly hour of the night, on one condition."

"Yes, sir?" Ron fairly vibrated with anticipation.

"Go put some bloody clothes on, heathen."