Oh yeah and know this. Ever since (around 1994) I opened my first VC and read it (it was QOTD since I could not find IwtV) I've had a soft spot for Lestat/Jesse as a couple though it never happened in the books. Thats in part, the reason I like the movie so much I think(I read QOTD just before I saw IwtV for the first time in a Theater).
As I was reading QotD for the first time and I stumbled across the Jesse story-line, she,(next to Daniel) became my favorite character in the book (of that the Bond One himself heh) I found myself hoping as she was becoming more and more obsessed about finding out the history of Lestat. I silently began to root her on on her quest to see Lestat for herself) Even after she had her neck broken by a random vampire. I expected just a little moe than that I guess but still thats where my hoped for Lestat/Jesse were born. Read it and weep haha.
Sorry about the rambling. I love to babble. Keep in mind I've liked this pairing since I was mmm 15 or 16 long before I know of Slash or of the possible Lestat/Louis references in the first book, seeing as once again QOtD was the first one I ever read, I just thought somehow all through the book they'd beet for some reason, but I was a wee bit disappointed when they didn't but I loved the whole story for it's richness.