ask-matttheradartechnician:

Matt stiffened when he felt techies hand run up his thigh. His eyes locked on techies before he let out a soft gasp as he felt the hand continue to run up his shirt. Still? He’d been tapping his foot because that’s what he did when he was bored or nervous. He didn’t know why that had warranted touching him in such a way.
“ sorry was that bothering you?”

There was something faraway about the look in Techie’s eyes. As though he wasn’t totally there, with his head in the clouds instead of securely in the room with them. His pupils didn’t focus quite right, either; instead floating across Matt’s face without any real purpose. He looked vaguely ill.

“Matt. I’m having a. P-Panic. It’s,” Techie wheezed, feeling short on air and chest so tight his heartbeat felt like it would break through his stretched skin. His hands moved on their own accord, trying to grasp Matt for dear life while he was so out of it he didn’t even know what the hell he was touching.

That would explain the groping, then.