As I said, as you have to run screen first, this won't help with your current problem, but in the future it may.
See the "detachtty" package.
This should allow you to detach and reattach the already running process.
And it doesn't carry with it all of the excess functionality of screen that it sounds as though you have no need for.
--dircha
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