This is just wonderful. Once again, I have to tell you how much I love how you've represented these two. I laughed when I read Abby's part, both with her trying not to think about her impending not-a-date with Dennis and how she got queasy when she was nervous-both very Derek traits, the denial and the nausea. And Dennis's fumbling was adorable. And also I could see shades of Casey there-how she tries to hard to be liked. The whole thing was great, and I can't wait for the next chapter.

I liked them here. We get to see both their POV and you do not make them look like a very bad mam and dad. It's good how you showed that Abby exes is dating someone but she(and even we) do not know who yet. It well be good to see what they well do when they know that their exes are dating and all that came after that. I do not know were you are going with this but wereever it is, you are doing a good job.

Cute :). I was just wondering if it will ever come up in the story that their exes are dating? Update as soon as you can!

Nice work keep it up.

i'll keep it short: this story is great, and i can't wait to read more! keep me posted (no pun intended)

Nice. Catch ya on the flip side.

That Tracye seemed fun... Who know there was more then one Casey in the world?lol. Are you going for the Abby/Dennis shiping? If you are then I have to say that so far you are doing very well.

LOl! Oh, that's good. Dennis and Abby going for drinks. (What would Derek and Casey say? *snort*) I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens, so please update soon!

I really enjoyed this first chapter :) Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

Holy cow, you're psychic! I've been thinking about doing something similar myself, and here it is (much better than I would have phrased it, and fantastically achy and sad in tone). I'm so glad you're doing a look at Abby and Dennis because we see so little of them in the show, and I've noticed a tendency to villify them, especially Abby for some reason. Everyone seems to want to turn her into a harriden or an alcoholic or some crazy woman who ditched her family. Honestly in the ONE episode we got with her in it, she seemed more like a woman who entered marriage with an idea that she could have it all and be everything, and then found out that she couldn't. And I think most people agree that Dennis's job just kept getting more and more demanding, and he'd worked hard for and earned every promotion, so he was going to take them...but it ended up estranging him from his family. (I loved the line about how he hadn't been around to help set up the Christmas tree for years, but it was still something he would miss.)

Please update soon. I can't wait to see how these two deal with life and with their ex's getting re-married and all the hijinks we got to see first hand that they only got to hear about later.

Pretty sure you already know how much I love this so far.

Also we never see enough about Abby or Dennis, so seeing both in one place is what you call epic. :-)

"Everyone assumed that she would still be parent in chief. Most of them couldn’t hide their surprise – and often censure – when she shared that her children’s father would retain custody." Poor Abby, still managing to be a good mother but probably getting none of the credit.

"Starting over wasn’t as easy as everyone seemed to think. He had been married to Nora for years. It was hard to think of what it meant not to have a Nora, even if ending it had been the best thing. Sure, his name didn’t change. He was still Dennis Tristan McDonald. Yet, he didn’t feel that was fair. If Nora had to have a debate about what name she should use, shouldn’t he have to have a similar debate as well? It wasn’t like the title of “ex” was solely hers, after all." Yeah. You capture the gender roles and the weirdness that goes with divorce really well.

So Yay for a new fic! As usual, can't wait for more!

Wow.

That was really good. A lot better than I was expecting. Not that I wasn't expecting good things from you lol, it's just that on this site you normally get beginners. Which you clearly are not!

That was really interesting (never seen a story focusing on these two before), made me reconsider what they must have felt like, and was really well-written. So yeah. I am extremely pleasantly surprised! Keep writing :).

Awesome job. Keep it up. Catch ya on the flip side.