Pirate Radio

Go Your Own Way - Feetwood Mac

 There had been hypothetical talk about it for months, if not longer, but George never, in a million years, expected the day to actually come.

"You can't be serious?" He snorted. Ezra and his gang had had plenty of preposterous ideas over the years, but this one took the cake. And that was coming from George, the self proclaimed 'King of bad choices'. "Pirate radio? What is this? The 60's?"

George had been part of the activist group that called themselves 'The new Knights of Camelot' for the past four years of his life and every time they proposed some new and ridiculous way to get in trouble with the police - and, more importantly, the fucking government - he wondered what he was still doing with them. He'd never been one to stand up for himself or fight for what he believed in - hell, he'd never been one to believe in anything. The idea of standing up for some one else, a whole continent of someone else's, would have never crossed his mind. And that just happened to be what the Knights were all about.

But of course George couldn't just leave, not when most of his friends were Knights. Okay, okay, so all of his friends were Knights. A fact that drove him absolutely crazy, because it meant that every single one of the people he spent his time with was some heroic fuck with a noble cause which made his already pathetic self look like absolute dirt in comparison.

It hadn't been his intention to befriend all the brave weirdos who believed that a couple of rallies would be any sort of use in combating the homophobia and racism that plagued the world. Oh no, quite the contrary. When he'd met Heth, his soon to be best friend, and Ludwik, the thug with a heart, in a pub on his first day in Calais, he was sure they were sorry sods who'd come to France because it was the one place in the New European Union where the consumption of wine wasn't yet considered a crime. Just like him. Needless to say, he'd been wrong.

Still, they had been good fun to hang around with and bit by bit George was introduced to more and more of them until he was an unofficial Knight himself. All that had been left was to meet their leader, Ezra, and oh boy, had that been an experience.

George wouldn't have gone so far to call it love at first sight exactly, but it was definitely something. He'd never seen someone so outlandishly beautiful, and usually he wasn't really that into blonds, not even the dirty blond that Ezra had going for him. Maybe it was the way it fell in waves so perfect you could surf them that was so very attractive? Or maybe it was the way his hair worked so very well with the rest of his strong, well defined features? Then there was also the small matter of someone having spilt their drink down the front of Ezra's white shirt, causing it to be more transparent than anyone was comfortable with.

Admittedly it was more likely a case of lust at first sight, and then a case of rejection a second later when George made a less than subtle come on and Ezra told him to piss off. Apparently going on a date with George was where Ezra's charitable side drew the line.

The actual infatuation didn't start until a couple of months later when Heth insisted George join their meetings - where he saw Ezra in action, eyes blazing with anger, his every word oozing passion - which then lead to George becoming a regular 'down with the patriarchy' soldier, without any of the actual 'down with the patriarchy'. His job was far more important: He had to sit in a corner, drink, make a fuss about something or another and criticise everyone's ideas. Arguably he didn't 'have' to do any of those things, but he wanted to sit in a corner, drink, make a fuss and criticise, even on the days when Ezra ended up kicking him out for it. Especially on the days when Ezra ended up kicking him out for it.

Back in John Morgan's cellar, the cluttered space where the Knights often held their meetings, George said from the old, tattered, somewhat smelly, armchair that had been nicknamed 'George's corner': "Tell me, how did you come up with this completely ridiculous plan? Did you guys just get bored of the comfort of your lives?"