upset by Fred and never fully reassembled.

You want the first bit to match the second. So - upset and righted (as deb suggested) or shattered and reassembled.

I vote "regained".

Hmm... Ruffled by Fred and never smoothed?

Punctured by Fred and never reinflated?

Massacred by Fred and never resurrected?

Severed by Fred and never reattached?

Smothered by Fred and never got CPR?

Withered in Fred's shadow and never brought into the light?

I can keep doing this.

You want the first bit to match the second. So - upset and righted (as deb suggested) or shattered and reassembled.

That was my original take on it; "reassembly" is a highly physical mechanical term, not pairing properly with "upset". Plei said, upset as in apple cart, I imagined upset as in a sandcastle kicked over accidentally by a heedless passerby. Either way, though, reassembly is something one does with bits and pieces. So matching the two, somehow? Yup. Needs to happen.

I like Fay's suggestion, as well. But there's a certain simplicity to "righted" and the sentence itself, as Plei crafted it, is very clean and unfussy.

poisoned by the apple that was Fred and never awoken with a kiss from a prince.

So right now we have "Theirs was a fragile peace, upset by Fred and never fully righted."

Plei, that works. It might work even better (harking back to "upset" in the sense of it having more than one shade of meaning) if you take "righted" and make it be "put right."

Theirs was a fragile peace, upset by Fred and never fully put right or "...really put right".

edit: damned floating quotation marks....

Plei, that works. It might work even better (harking back to "upset" in the sense of it having more than one shade of meaning) if you take "righted" and make it be "put right."

Hee. Great minds.

I was going back and forth on it, though leaning in the direction of "put to rights".