Eddie may not have gotten to meet Will or El but he did get to meet Suzie. When Steve was busy, Dustin would ask Eddie to drive him up to the hill so he could radio her, “she exists, Eddie, geez”, “Alright, Henderson, I’ll believe you when I see it,” and so it became a thing, Eddie would lay on the hill close enough to hear when Dustin got really into recounting DnD that week but not close enough to hear anything private.
Until one day, “You wanna meet her?”
“Me? You want me to meet your Mormon girlfriend? The town’s proclaimed satanist and cult leader?”
“of course I do, you’re my friend.”
And so Eddie met Suzie, who had actually heard a lot about Eddie just like she’d heard a lot about Steve and the Party, because Eddie was important to Dustin and so he was important to her.
Eddie loved Suzie, would crack jokes with her, tell her anything embarrassing Dustin did at school and thought she was the smartest girl he’d ever met and in return Suzie thanked him for looking out for her Dusty Buns (“Oh I’m definitely teasing you about that one kiddo”) in high school.
When the dust had settled and his leg fixed up, Steve drove Dustin out to the hill, which thankfully had been left unharmed by the earthquake and held Dustin as he and Suzie cried over losing Eddie together.