all duct tape and safety pins inside

Title: The Dumb Oxen of Lawrence
Author: San Antonio Rose (ramblin_rosie)
Characters: Sam, Dean, Manannan mac Lir/O'Donoghue
Pairing: Gen (though there is about half a page of Sam/OFC and Dean/OFC at the very end)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~6,700
Warnings: This story is very much in the vein of darker fairy tales--temporary slavery, amnesiac humans used as draft animals while under enchantment, non-graphic/non-sexual physical abuse (absolutely no sexual contact occurs), non-explicit/non-sexual nudity, humiliation, good ol' Winchester self-loathing--BUT I promise it has a happy ending, and the entire dark part has a purpose that is revealed in the eucatastrophe.
Notes: AU from the end of Season 7. Inspired by Sir Orfeo, "Leaf by Niggle," and just about every non-Disney fairy tale I've ever read. The beginning is actually an idea I very nearly tried to pitch to Jeremy Carver for the Season 8 premiere... and I sort of wish I had, although this tale took a left turn at Phoenix as I was writing it.

Summary: Out of leads and out of hope, Sam turns to the one being in the world he thinks stands a chance of being able to find and help him rescue Dean and Cas: the king of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. But mixing Winchesters and Sidhe could be perilous even at the best of times. With Sam's sanity still being questionable and Dean still raw from Purgatory, can either brother find "happily ever after" in his vocabulary?

( I don't care what you do to me.... )