Angie used to date Zak Bagans, lead investigator for Ghost Adventures. Angie and Zak dated during the time when he was just getting Ghost Adventures started. He and his friend Nick Groff hired a cool guy named Aaron Goodwin to help film them as they investigated an old building. That's also when Angie and Zak's relationship ended.
Zak and the guys were celebrating the fact that what they filmed was gonna be aired on TV, so they went out to a bar and celebrated. They all got drunk, only Zak got a little too drunk and ended up taking a random blonde home with him...and the next morning Angie walked in and found them.
She broke up with Zak right then and didn't tell him when she discovered that she was pregnant. Later they ran into each other at a party that Nick and his wife had and Angie grabbed her co-worker John, who had came to the party with her, and started kissing him, only so Zak, who was there alone, wouldn't see in her eyes that she still loved him.
~~~Flashback~~~~
Zak was standing in a corner of Nick's house, the party was in full swing. He spotted Angie walk in and had been praying she'd come, now he just had to find a way to be alone with her so he could talk to her.
He walked over to Nick. "Nick, man, I need a huge favor dude."
"Name it" Nick answered.
"I need some alone time with Ang so we can talk."
"Doesn't look like she's gonna want to talk to you bro" Nick replied, pointing towards Angie. Zak turned and saw her kissing some guy.
"Who the hell is he!" Zak growled.
"Don't know" Nick answered. "But he came with her."
Zak was so angry at seeing Angie kissing another guy that he actually squeezed the drink glass he was holding so hard that it broke. "Ow, shit!" he exclaimed as the glass cut into his hand.
"I'm gonna pound that guy's face in" Zak growled.
"No you're not" Nick responded standing up to Zak. "You had your chance and you blew it. Now let her have a chance at being happy...she deserves that after what you did."
~~~~~~~~~end flashback~~~~~~
Angie may not have told Zak about their daughter, but she never hid him from little Alexandra, little Alex has always know who her father was.
A total of 4 years had passed since Angie broke up with Zak, and she was now laying in a hospital bed; she'd been in a horrible car accident. One of the nurses asked little Alex if her Mommy had any family, anyone the doctor should call about her Mommy being hurt. Little Alex opened her Hello Kitty purse and pulled out picture of Angie and Zak, she handed the picture to the nurse and said "Supposed to call my Daddy if Mommy's hurt".
The nurse took the picture and turned it over; there was writing on the back. 'Angie and Zak' below their names was a phone number. The nurse promised to bring the picture right back, and then she went over to the nurse's desk and dialed the phone number. "Hello" a mans voice answered.
"My name is Julie and I'm a nurse at Saint Thomas Hospital in Milwaukee Wisconsin, are you Zak?"
"No" the man answered. "I'm his friend Nick. Wait, nurse, hospital, what's this about?"
"A woman named Angie McKenna was brought in, she was in a bad car accident..."
Nick recognized the name and sat upright in bed. "How did you end up with my number? Is she gonna be okay?"
"Ms. McKennas young daughter gave me a picture that had your number on it."
"Daughter" Nick thought.
"She told me that her Daddy was supposed to be called if Mommy was ever hurt. The picture has the names Angie and Zak wrote it. I assumed the phone number belonged to Zak."
"Daddy... Zak...oh shit" Nick thought. "I'll call Zak right now" Nick said to the nurse.
"Thank you" Nurse Julie said. "Tell him that he should hurry, Ms. McKennas condition is grave at the moment and without a family member or parent I'm afraid her young daughter will be placed into foster care until Ms. McKenna recovers...if she recovers." The nurse hung up the phone and then as promised gave the picture back to Alex.
Little Alex looked at the picture and then closed her eyes "Dear God, I wished for my Daddy to come see me and Mommy before but you didn't let him come. Mommy said its cause you knew Daddy was busy, please don't let Daddy be busy." A tear rolled down the scared little girls cheek. "Please come Daddy."
At the same time Nick, who happened to be in Zak's guest room at the time Nurse Julie called because they had gotten in late from another lockdown and Nick was too tired to make it home. Nick jumped out of bed and ran down the hallway, he reached Zak's bedroom door and rushed in. "Zak, dude wake up!" Zak simply groaned in response. "Come on man it's an emergency! You gotta wake up!" Nick yelled.
"Is Gracie okay?" Zak asked.
"Yeah."
"You okay?" Zak questioned.
"Yeah."
"House on fire?" Zak said.
Nick sighed. "No."
"Then shut up and let me sleep dude" Zak responded.
Nick grabbed hold of Zak's arm and began pulling him out of bed. "Damn it Zak Angie's hurt! She's in the hospital! She might not make it!"
Zak instantly sat up, completely awake. He scrambled out of bed and began pulling his pants on. "What?! How?! How do you know? Where is she?!"
"A nurse from the hospital just called me, looking for you."
Zak was pulling a T-shirt on. "I gotta go, where is she?!"
"Saint Thomas Hospital, in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Hang on I'll call come with ya".
Nick ran back to the guest room and quickly got dressed, while Zak, not wanting to wait for any old flight to Milwaukee, called one of Travel Channel producers and explained what was going on, the producer, living in Las Vegas, agreed to let Zak use his private jet.
"LET'S GO NICK" Zak yelled after having run downstairs to the front door. Nick came flying down the stairs and the two hopped into Zak's car. Nick insisted on driving because he wanted to get to the airport alive.
While on the plane Nick knew he needed to tell Zak how the nurse got his number. He was about to speak when Zak asked "How did that nurse end up calling you?"
Nick took a breath. "I guess my number was wrote down on the back of a photo of you and Ang." Nick answered.
Zak nodded. "So she thought she was calling me."
Nick nodded now. "Yeah. But I need to tell you where the nurse got the picture from."
"Ang's wallet I assume" Zak replied.
Nick shook his head. "She got it from a little girl;" a puzzled look appeared on Zak's face. "The nurse got the photo from Ang's daughter Zak." Zak turned pale. "The nurse told me the little girl said that if Mommy was ever hurt she was supposed to call her Daddy."
Zak's eyes widened. "Daddy?" he repeated and Nick nodded his head.
"Looks like I'll have to get you a Father's Day card next year" Nick remarked.
"Ang had a baby?" Zak said softly.
"She had your baby" Nick said.
Zak began shaking his head. "No, can't be mine. She would have told me."
Nick looked at his friend. "She was pretty hurt when you two...well you know."
"Hurt enough to keep me from my kid?" Zak questioned. In response Nick simply shrugged his shoulders. Zak sighed and then ran a shaky hand through his hair. "I wouldn't have told me either, because I was acting like a dumb fucking idiot who screwed up big time."
Four hours later Zak and Nick were running towards a nurse's desk at Saint Thomas Hospital. "I'm looking for a Nurse Julie" Zak said. "She called my friend about Angie McKenna." Nurse Julie was near by and heard her name and the name of her patient mentioned.
She walked over to the nurse's desk and said "I'm Nurse Julie."
"Where's Angie?"
"Are you Zak?" Nurse Julie asked. Zak nodded. "Come with me" Nurse Julie said. She led Zak and Nick to one of the patient rooms where Zak saw Angie hooked up to a ventilator.
"Is she going to be okay?" Nick asked, knowing his friend was too choked up to speak.
"As of right now we don't know" Nurse Julie answered. Zak walked into to room and sat down in a chair next to Angie's bed. He gently took hold of her hand and brought it up to his lips and kissed it.
"Ang, sweetie, baby, I'm here. It's me, Zak...you know, Zaky-Poo." Normally the nick name would have pissed him off but good, but right now Zak would give anything to hear her call him that. "Wake up honey, please." Zak pleaded.
Nick walked in and placed a hand on Zak's shoulder. "Zak" Nick said.
"Are you going to be taking care of Ms. McKenna's daughter?" Nurse Julie asked.
The word daughter caused Zak to sigh. He kissed Angie's hand once more and then stood up. "Don't worry honey, I'll take care of our little girl, you just get better." Zak then slowly walked back towards the door. "Where's my daughter?"
Nurse Julie led Zak and Nick to the Nurse's Lounge where the nurses were taking turns looking after little Alex. Alex was sitting there, and had insisted on watching Ghost Adventures on the TV in the lounge. Nurse Julie, Zak and Nick walked in and Zak stopped dead in his tracks; before him sat a little girl who looked exactly like his sister had when she was 4.
Little Alex pointed to the TV, which was showing a close up of Zak. "That's my Daddy" she said to the male nurse who was sitting in the lounge with her.
"Yeah?" The nurse responded.
Alex nodded. "He saves people from the boogie man" she said proudly. Then she fished the photo out of her purse. "That's Daddy and Mommy" she said showing the nurse the photo.
Zak felt numb all over. Then he spotted the bandage on Alex's forehead. "What happened to her?" He asked.
"She was in the car at the time of the accident, but walked away with only that scratch. She kept insisting that her Nanna saved her."
Just then the episode of Ghost Adventures came to an end and Zak's voice could be heard talking about his grandmother passing away, then a picture of his grandma appeared on the screen. Alex pointed to the TV. "That's the lady who saved me" she said pointing at the TV screen. "She said to call her Nanna."
Hearing her words and seeing what she was pointing at made Zak feel weak in the knees. Nick placed a hand on his friends shoulder. "Nick...that's my..."
"I know" Nick answered.
Nurse Julie walked into the room smiling. "Alex, Sweetheart, there's someone here to see you." She pointed towards the doorway. Alex turned to look and then her face lit up. She jumped out of the chair and ran straight for Zak.
"Daddy!" She exclaimed. "You came!" Then little Alex, who by now had been scooped up into Zak's arms. "Thank you God" she said softly as she wrapped her arms around Zak's neck.
"What's that?" Zak said.
Alex giggled at him. "I asked God to please let you come visit this time because Mommy's sick and I'm scared. And he did."
"This time?" Zak questioned.
Alex nodded. "I asked God before to let you come visit, but he never did. Mommy said that God knew you were busy saving people from the boogie man." Nick chuckled at the boogie man comment. Alex laid her head on Zak's shoulder. "Mommy will get better now that you're here Daddy."
"I hope so sweetie" Zak responded.
"She will, Nanna said so. But Nanna said you gotta tell Mommy what happened."
Zak's eyes widened as he looked at Nick. Before either man could speak Alex wiggled free from Zak's arms and ran for Nick. "Uncle Nick" she yelled. Knowing how to handle little kids, he scooped her and smiled.
"Hey there pumpkin."
"You came with Daddy?" Nick nodded. Alex began looking around. "Is Uncle Aaron here too?"
"No honey, Uncle Aaron will be here tomorrow."
"Kay." She said. She wiggled free and walked back over by Zak and looked up at him.
"She wants you to pick her up" Nick told Zak.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, right." Zak bent down and picked the little girl up. She wrapped her arms around her neck and yawned.
"Poor thing refused to go to sleep until her Daddy got here." Nurse Julie said. "There's a hotel not far where you folks can stay."
"Daddy can we go home?" Alex asked.
Nurse Julie handed Nick a bag that contained Angie's personal effects. Nick dug through the bag and pulled out a set of keys. "I got her keys" he responded. He looked at Zak and then said "She might rest better in her own bed."
Zak nodded.
At Angie's house Zak, after getting some advice from Nick, managed to tuck Alex into bed and get her to sleep. Then he and Nick wondered around the house a bit. Zak found the master bedroom and instantly spotted a picture of himself and Angie sitting on the night stand. Zak walked over and sat down on the bed, he was filled with all kinds of emotions. His mind flooded with memories, most were happy memories of him and Angie together.
~~~~~flashback~~~~~~
"Zak stop" Angie said in a fit of laughter, Zak had started tickling her. The pair flopped down onto Zak's bed and he then finally stopped tickling her. Instead he began kissing her. Angie moaned in pleasure. Zak shifted his weight to lay partly on top of her. "I love you Zak."
"I love you too Ang."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~end flashback~~~~~~~~~
Zak sat on Angie's bed, still in shock. He had a daughter, a 4 year old daughter. He couldn't believe it. "Why didn't Ang tell me?" He thought. He remembered back to that moment when his world fell apart, the moment Angie said goodbye. "Because I was a total and complete asshole, that's why" he said with a sigh.
~~~~~flashback~~~~~~~
"Zak" Angie yelled upon finding him laying in bed with some blonde. "How could you!"
Zak sat up and quickly jumped out of bed. Angie was running for the front door and he was running after her. "Ang, wait, please!"
Angie stopped at the front door and turned to look at him. Zak felt his heart breaking and his world falling apart. "I'm done Zak. You knew being faithful was important to me. And you knew why...because of what happened between my parents..."
"Angie..." Was all he could get out.
"No, I don't want to hear it! Go back to your blonde bimbo and don't call me ever again!" Angie yelled. Then she walked out the door slamming it shut behind her.
~~~~~end flashback~~~~~~
Zak noticed on Angie's dresser a picture of her and a man, and they appeared very happy in the picture. Zak stood up and walked over to the dresser. He picked up the picture and spotted that this guy had his arms around Angie. Zak's blood began to boil, "Just who in the hell does he think he is" Zak thought. He slammed the picture face down onto the dresser. Then he sighed and picked it up again. "She looks happy with him" Zak thought. "I guess that's good, considering how badly I hurt her."
Just then Nick walked into the room. "I ordered a pizza it should be here soon." Then he noticed that Zak was holding something in his hand. "What's that?"
"Photo of Ang" Zak answered setting the photo down gently this time. Looking at her smiling in the arms of another man made his chest actually hurt. "But he seems to make her happy."
Nick took a closer look and recognized the man as they guy Angie kissed that night of the party. "That's the guy she was kissing that night we had that party not long after you two broke up."
Zak remembered that moment clearly, he relived it and the moment Angie told him goodbye every single day; but at night, in his dreams he and Angie were together, nothing had separated them and they were happy and in love. Zak sighed and walked away from the dresser. He wasn't looking where he was going and bumped into the wall by the bedroom door. A picture of Alex that had been hanging on the wall fell to the floor revealing a hiding space.
"Whoa, check it out" Nick said. He reached into the hiding place and pulled out a fireproof lock box. Nick fished Angie's keys out of his pocket and searched through them. He found a small key and used it to unlock the box. "Zak you better take a look" Nick said after seeing what was inside.
Inside the lock box were some photos, Alex's birth certificate, Angie's diary, and letters addressed to Zak and had 'return to sender' wrote on them. Nick and Zak took the box and its contents and went into the kitchen and sat down at the table. "Why would these letters be marked return to sender, I never got them." Nick shrugged his shoulders. Zak opened one of the letters and began to read it.
'Dear Zak, please read this. You have a right to be mad because I didn't tell you right away about Alex, but you hurt me more than I thought humanly possible. But Alex is sick, she needs blood...she needs her father...'
Zak tore through all of the other letters and they were all the same, Angie begging Zak to please come and get a blood test, to see if his blood would save their daughter. The last letter was not Angie pleading, it was telling Zak off.
'Zak I had hoped maybe you weren't a total asshole, but I guess I was wrong. I can understand you being mad at me...but to let an innocent child, who just happens to be your daughter suffer...Satan would be a better father than you! Thank God John stepped up. He was able to and willing to save your daughters life...'
Zak set the letter down and looked at Nick. "How could I not have gotten any of these letters?!" Nick looked at one of the envelopes closely and then said "I think I know why."
"This return to sender is in Jackie's handwriting." Zak grabbed the envelope Nick was holding and looked at it; Nick was right. Return to sender had been wrote on all of the letters by Zak's former girlfriend...the blonde bimbo. "They've all been opened and then taped shut. Jackie must have opened them..."
"And then sent them back to Ang" Zak said angrily. "That bitch! My daughter could have died!"
Nick and Zak looked through the rest of the lock box. They flipped through a couple pages of Angie's diary.
'Watched Ghost Adventures tonight...I watch it every week, and the reruns...I can't help myself. After he hurt me I should hate Zak and not watch it, but God help me I still love him so much. I miss him so much, I miss his voice, his kiss, his touch...'
'Alex looks so much like Zak that it hurts. She's only 1 and I can't get her away from the TV if he's on. It's as if she's drawn to the paranormal...drawn to him; drawn to his world...'
'Something scary happened. Before Ghost Adventures came on TV tonight, Alex started crying and begged me to tell Daddy to not go. She doesn't understand that the shows are taped, not live. Alex kept insisting that something was going to happen to Daddy if he went in the scary place...then on the show Zak was possessed while they were locked down. How could my baby have known something was going to happen?'
"Whoa" Nick remarked after he and Zak read that last part.
Nick got some sleep that night, but Zak got none. He spent the night sitting in a chair in Alex's bedroom. Her wall was full of pictures of him, Nick and Aaron. The next morning Zak smiled when he saw Alex wake up. "Daddy" she said with a bright smile.
"Hey Princess" Zak responded. Alex climbed out of bed and walked over to him.
"Breakfast is ready" Nick called out from the kitchen. Zak and Alex walked into the kitchen and found Nick dishing out some scrambled eggs and bacon. "I know you probably didn't sleep last night so I thought I'd help out.
Alex climbed up into a chair at the table and started eating. "Thanks Nick" Zak said.
Zak's cell phone began ringing and he quickly grabbed it. "Hello." There were a few moments of silence as he listened to who had called him. "Okay, we'll be right there. Thank you." He set his cell phone down and looked at Nick & Alex. "That was the hospital Angie's finally awake."
"Mommy's awake?"
Zak smiled and nodded at the little girl. "Yeah. So finish up your breakfast so we can go see her."
An hour later Zak, holding onto Alex's hand, followed by Nick walked into Angie's hospital room. "Mommy" Alex exclaimed as she rushed over to her.
"Easy kido" Zak said. "Don't go tackling Mommy, she's still hurt." Alex stopped and then gently hugged her Mom.
Angie lovingly stroked her daughters hair, smiling.
"Mommy's gonna be okay baby." She said. Angie looked up then and smiled brightly when she saw Zak standing there. "Who are you?" Zak's face fell and he felt his heart breaking. "You must be with social services, I hope my little angel wasn't too much trouble."
Alex let out a giggle. "Mommy that's Daddy. When you got hurt I asked God to let Daddy come here."
Angie looked at her daughter strangely. "Daddy?" Angie repeated, and Alex nodded. Angie looked at Zak, studying his face. Just then a doctor walked into the room.
"Which one of you is Zak Bagans?" the doctor asked.
"I am" Zak said turning to look at the doctor.
"Can we talk?" Zak nodded his head and followed the doctor out to the hallway.
"She doesn't seem to remember me" Zak told the doctor.
"She received a severe blow to her head."
"But she remembers her daughter" Zak stated.
"Sometimes only painful memories are forgotten."
Zak winced, and he felt like he'd been stabbed in the heart. Had their relationship been that bad? "Will her memory come back?"
"It should her brain injury wasn't that severe. But as to when it will come back is up to the man upstairs." Just then the doctor heard his name being paged. "Excuse me. Oh if her tests through the rest of the day and tonight come back good, then she can go home." The doctor walked away then.
Nick walked out by Zak. "What did the doctor say?"
"She's got amnesia, but looks like she might get released tomorrow."
Nick felt sorry for his friend. "That explains why she doesn't remember you."
Zak nodded. He peeked into the room and saw Alex standing by Angie's bed, talking. "Maybe its better that way." Zak said. "Angie and I could start over, with a clean slate."
"And what happens when her memory comes back and she remembers..." Nick said.
Zak sighed. "I'll worry about that then. But in the mean time maybe she and I will have a chance."
Around noon that day, Aaron walked into Angie's hospital room, carrying some flowers. He was nearly tackled to the floor by little Alex. "Uncle Aaron" she exclaimed racing to him.
He stared at Nick and Zak as the little girl hugged him. "Uncle Aaron" he mouthed. Nick simply nodded and pointed at Zak. A moment later Aaron's eyes widened as he realized what Nick was silently telling him.
"Alex, let's not knock Uncle Aaron over" Nick said laughing. "Why don't you and I go get something for Mommy from the gift shop." She nodded and then looked over at Zak.
"Can I Daddy?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah sure of course you can go with Uncle Nick." Zak said. Alex smiled and quickly took hold of Nick's hand.
Aaron walked in; he set the flowers down on a small table and then sat down next to Zak. "So...Uncle Aaron huh?"
Zak nodded. "I had no idea" Zak sighed.
"How is she?"
"She's gonna be okay" Zak answered. "She's got amnesia though." He sighed again. "She doesn't remember me at all." An angry look crossed his face then. "But she sure as hell remembers Nick."
Aaron put a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Damn, that's gotta suck."
"It hurts a lot" Zak answered. "But I think this could be a good thing. Ang and I can start fresh."
Angie woke from her nap, caused by the pain medication and smiled brightly. Zak's eyes lit up, hoping perhaps that she would remember him, but not what had happened between them. "Aaron" she said with a smile. "You didn't have to come all this way to see me." Aaron didn't have to look at Zak to see the angry look his best friend was giving him. It hurt Zak a lot that the love of his life seemed to remember everyone but him.
Aaron smiled at Angie and then stood up. "Well I couldn't just sit on my butt in Vegas while you were laying here, now could I?" Angie laughed at his comment. Then she noticed that the strange man her daughter kept calling Daddy was sitting in a corner of the room.
"You stayed?" She said to Zak.
Zak stood up and walked over to her bedside. "Of course I stayed. I'm not going anywhere." He picked up her hand and gently brushed his thumb over her knuckles. His touch seemed familiar somehow, but she couldn't place it. And his touch, him just being close to her sent a tingling shiver through out her entire body.
Angie looked away from him in embarrassment. "I'm sorry I can't remember you. My little Alex keeps asking me why I can't remember Daddy."
"Shh" Zak said. "Don't worry about that. You were in a bad car accident. What's important is that you and our daughter are gonna be okay now." Angie looked down at her left hand and then a tear rolled down her cheek. "Why are you crying?" Zak asked.
"I must have lost my wedding ring in the accident."
Aaron's eyes widened. "Wedding ring" he mouthed to Zak, who shrugged his shoulders.
"Wedding ring?" Zak repeated.
Angie nodded. "Yes...if you're Alex's father, then you must be my husband." Then she looked up at Zak. "Will you forgive me for loosing it? That ring was special, the ring you gave me on our wedding day..."
Aaron's mouth dropped open in shock, and Zak turned pale. Angie couldn't remember him, or their relationship, but because they shared a daughter was assuming they were husband and wife. After a moment Zak picked up her hand and gently kissed it. "Of course I do. You shouldn't be worrying about a silly ring. What's important is that I didn't loose you."
Angie smiled and then yawned again. "I think my pain medication is still working..." she said sleepily.
"You get some rest" Aaron responded, to which Angie nodded and then promptly fell back to sleep. He and Zak walked out to the hallway so they could talk without waking her up.
"Wedding ring? Dude what the hell?"
"I had to think fast Aaron" Zak answered. "She doesn't remember one thing about us, about what we had. But because of Alex she I guess thinks we must be married."
"Bro you gotta tell her the truth."
"Who says" Zak countered. "I lost her once and now I've got her back..."
"Zak, bro you lost her because you took some blonde bimbo back to your place and slept with her..."
"And that was the biggest mistake of my life Aaron, even if I don't remember it. But now I have a chance to get the best thing of my life back. If Ang wants to believe we're married, then I'm gonna let her."
Aaron shook his head. "This is gonna back fire on you bro, big time."