When is paradise no longer paradise? How does one problem go from bad to worse? How do you deal with it all? Improvise to make it through, even if the redhead bully from hell gets in the way. Keep the Sambas at home. Late AkuRoku. Early chapter revision.

Kurt and his dad are the victims of a violent home invasion. In the aftermath, they struggle to find a way to survive the trauma of what's happened to them, to get back to some kind of normal life... to be unbroken. This is a rape recovery fic, and therefore contains violence, non-con; symptoms of PTSD such as panic attacks, flashbacks, etc. Brief reference to eating disorders.