"They'd reached the boundary between Town and Seam. The end of the line." Madge Undersee and Gale Hawthorne are bound together, for better or worse, the moment Katniss volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games. The line between love and survival blurs off screen in District 12 between the star-crossed lovers no one ever heard about.

In the 1920s, a time when women are just beginning to carve a place for themselves in the male dominated world of academia, Madge agrees to go on an archaeological expedition. The ancient curse waiting for her, however, is nothing compared to a certain fellow student by the name of Hawthorne. AU (obviously)