Oh, there were a number of E/R fics in that first five hundred!
I was eyeballing the summaries rather than going by FFnet tags, as most of the older (and hence most popular) fics predate the tagging/pairing system. It's possible that one or two of those may have featured a non-obvious R/C outcome -- I checked the last chapters of a number of stories that didn't advertise an explicit "EC as always" -- but most of them made their preference pretty clear.
I had a look at the M-rated ones. "Phantoms of the Past" is page five. "The Good Soldier" (which is abandoned while still, surprisingly, R/C, although I've always assumed the author eventually plans for Christine to fall for her grumpy boss) is page seventeen. "Puzzle Pieces" (which, to be honest, I probably wouldn't have identified as R/C from the summary if I hadn't come across it already) is page nineteen. And ironically a number of the E/OC fics are nominally at least R/C, although the authors tend to prefer to have the married Christine still pining after her Angel even as the other woman successfully wins his heart...
Again, there are more E/R slash fics among the M-rated stories than there are R/C ones.
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Date: 2020-04-11 11:49 am (UTC)I was eyeballing the summaries rather than going by FFnet tags, as most of the older (and hence most popular) fics predate the tagging/pairing system. It's possible that one or two of those may have featured a non-obvious R/C outcome -- I checked the last chapters of a number of stories that didn't advertise an explicit "EC as always" -- but most of them made their preference pretty clear.
I had a look at the M-rated ones. "Phantoms of the Past" is page five. "The Good Soldier" (which is abandoned while still, surprisingly, R/C, although I've always assumed the author eventually plans for Christine to fall for her grumpy boss) is page seventeen. "Puzzle Pieces" (which, to be honest, I probably wouldn't have identified as R/C from the summary if I hadn't come across it already) is page nineteen. And ironically a number of the E/OC fics are nominally at least R/C, although the authors tend to prefer to have the married Christine still pining after her Angel even as the other woman successfully wins his heart...
Again, there are more E/R slash fics among the M-rated stories than there are R/C ones.