Dear Raven,

I hope you are doing well. It has been very, how should I write this, hectic here. I miss you, James, and even Victor dearly. Have you seen the boys lately?

Unfortunately, my letter brings devastating news for both me and you. You see, while I was visiting you, I was away when they performed the experiment on your friend. I did not learn until today that Dr. Erskine was killed that day by a gunshot wound, along with the remaining serum. I am sorry to say that you will not be able to become enrolled the way we had planned. However, after seeing your application letters (with a few made up events that I added in) they are willing to accept Richard Hamburg. Please respond as quickly as you can in order to come up with a new plan. I do not want to see you killed for your ignorance.

As you have probably seen and or heard, your friend is being used mainly as a show product. He tells me how much he wishes he could do more. He told me that he has yet to inform James Barnes of his enrolment, in fact, he wrote him a letter pretending to still be in Brooklyn. He has asked for your permission to write to you, I think he misses you.

Hope to hear from you shortly Raven, I hope you get your wish, no matter how crazy this is.

Sincerely,

Alexsis Howlett

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Dear Alexsis,

I am happy to see that you are doing well. I am sorry to hear about the loss of the Doctor, no one will be able to recreate the serum again. Call me mad for this, but I felt something strange overcome me the day of his passing. Almost like a pressure on my chest, restricting my airway. Or as if I could feel the shots and the pain he felt. However, the feeling passed quite quickly after that. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but I feel like it was not.

So with that, guess we need a new plan. We can come up with one. My thoughts of this are first off, I need to get in. Right now, even talking about this through letters in risky, (one thing James taught me.) If I can get in, maybe I can show that I can kick ass and be out in the field quickly? I don't know what goes on nowadays. It used to be round up any male, give them a gun, and march out to the battlefield.

As well, I am having problems staying in my Richard Hamburg disguise for long periods of time; I am fine for one day. However, any longer and things start to slip, or other things tend to happen (the worst being I've passed out. Nothing too serious though.) I'm worried about that. Perhaps we should discuss this? After all, it is your power originally. Have you experienced this before?

Anyways Lex, stay safe. At least until I can get there. You spoke of January 25th as being a good day to go? Please let me know as we have less than three weeks. In the meantime, I will practise my abilities. I think I have control of the claws, healing and sickness now. Like I said, it's just the period of time I have to hold the identity.

Take care Lex, hopefully see you soon.

Raven B. Howlett

I'm sorry if you can't read the font. I tried using the easiest to read handwriting. Message me if you can't and I will try to re-post this with different font.