Transfer Data Between Two Infopath Forms

I am hoping this can be solved quickly and easily.  I have zero programming experience but have been successful in creating a very simple Infopath form and database.  Essentially, the Infopath form is the front-end and the Access db is the back-end where the data gets stored.  

The purpose of my forms/db is to track requests made by employees and the responses they receive.  However, often an employee will get multiple responses to the same request at various points in time.  

Basically, this is where I'm at:
(1) I have two tables in the Access db, one is for information related to requests and the other is for information related to responses to the request;

(2) I have a form created in Infopath that allows the employee to input the information about the request (e.g. the date of the request, the type of request, who the request was made to, etc.), this is the "request form" - when this information is submitted to the Access db, a "Request ID" is assigned via the auto-number feature;

(3) In the "request form" I have created a secondary view that allows the employee to search all existing data in the Access db relating to requests (using a simple query function and repeating table to display the results), when an employee gets a response to a request, the employee can search for all the requests in a particular lot and the results are displayed and sorted by "Request ID";

(4) When the employee finds the request that the response is related to, I have a button that the employee can click on so that the employee can enter the response information (e.g. who responded, when, what their response was, etc.) - when the employee clicks the button I have the rule set up to open an entirely new form. ** I have to have a new form open, rather than just switch views in the request form, because I need to submit this data to an entirely separate table in the Access db.  Infopath only allows for one main data connection to submit information to a database table, and I need two connections, so this was the workaround that I came up with. **

(5) >> This is where I need help << In the second form that opens (the response form) I have a "Request ID" field, I would like the date in the "Request ID" field in the first form (the request form) to copy to the "Request ID" field in the second form (the response form), so that a relationship exists between the request and the response.  Like I said, an employee may get 50 responses to a single request, so we need to be able to later look back and see all the responses that relate to that particular request.

Like I said, I have zero programming experience - I don't think what I'm trying to do is overly ambitious, but it's clearly a bit beyond my capabilities.  If anyone has a non-programmatic solution, I'd welcome any suggestions.  If the solution has to be done through progamming, a detailed response would be unendingly appreciated.  Thank you all for your help!