What new life it was, completely. Once they settled in Cleveland, they Potentials scattered. They said it was to cover more ground separately, but everyone knew it was because they just needed to be apart, after living in one house for months. Most of them were sharing apartments around the city. Some living in motels. Faith and Robin got a small apartment together just a few blocks away from the Community College.
Command central became the new Summer's house. A two-story house that they were only able to afford by bringing in everyone's saved money. It was on a quiet street, much like Revello Drive. In the house lived, Buffy and Dawn, Giles and Xander, Willow and Kennedy and in the backyard there was a guesthouse, in which Andrew resided. Dawn and Buffy shared the master bedroom, Willow and Kennedy got the second largest room upstairs and Xander and Giles shared the downstairs bedroom. It was a tight squeeze, but no one minded. Though, they found it extremely hard to deal with the majority of their possessions being destroyed. They had packed away personal things and clothes, but all of the furniture was gone. So when they had money, they would look for nice furniture at the Salvation Army.
Plus, Giles had a lot of money saved up, so food usually wasn't so bad for them. He also packed away his books before the fight, so they had plenty of books for research.
They didn't get to spend as much time together as they usually had though. Even if there was no looming apocalypse, everyone was working to make money. To keep their lives going. Both Willow and Giles got jobs at the local Community College, Giles working as the Librarian and Willow in the computer tech lab. Nobody forgot to make-up a slew of new jokes for Giles becoming a Librarian again. Both Buffy and Andrew got full time jobs at a local diner called "Grandma's Kitchen". They worked as waiters, and enjoyed working there. Although the hours were long, they had each other to keep company. Xander wasted no time in finding a new construction job and even Dawn got a part-time job slinging burgers. With all of them working jobs, it was a bit easier to pay for rent and food but it was still hard to move on. They couldn't forget Sunnydale or the people they had lost there.